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Worldmaking for Relational Continuity: Narratives across Life, Death, and Future Generations

摘要

This lecture–workshop explores how design can cultivate relational continuity across life, death, and future generations through the lens of Design Narrative Worldmaking. Contemporary design challenges require us to acknowledge not only our relationships with the living, but also the traces, values, and responsibilities that extend across temporal, cultural, and generational boundaries. By shifting from solution-driven thinking to narrative and worldmaking perspectives, designers can uncover deeper forms of meaning, relationality, and ethical imagination. The first half of the session introduces the theoretical foundations of narrative worldmaking, including interpretative, sensemaking, and reflective narrative functions, as well as emerging concepts such as co-becoming and more-than-death. These ideas illustrate how stories shape the way we understand continuity — between the past and the future, between individual lives and collective worlds, and between what has ended and what continues. The second half consists of a hands-on mini-workshop in which participants engage in long-term futures thinking. Through guided reflection, speculative scenario building, and narrative prototyping, participants will explore how relational continuity can inform future-oriented design practices that honor both present needs and future generations. By the end of the session, participants will gain new tools to approach design as a worldmaking practice—one that connects lives, memories, responsibilities, and possibilities across time.

簡介

Bridging design and business through "Design Narrative Worldmaking (DNW)," Professor Hayama Yasuyuki brings management consulting experience from Deloitte Tohmatsu and strategic design expertise from AXIS Co., Ltd. to his academic role. With a Ph.D. in Design from Politecnico di Milano and an MBA from Hitotsubashi University, his interdisciplinary research explores innovation through narrative-driven strategic design methodologies. Beyond supervising international students and organizing conferences with European, U.S., and Asian universities, he leads co-creative projects with local governments and companies, delivering workshops for high school students and receiving multiple awards for industry-academia collaborations.

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