Design Intervention

For the design class, everyone is making some type of prototype based on our observations. It could be about almost anything.

For me, the thing I was most interested in was the cute mascot characters seen around; including commercial mascot characters from Sanrio and San-x to the yuru-charas that represent more local communities.

From that, I wanted to make my own. For a while I wasn't sure what I could do with them, and eventually I thought about using that character to introduce a topic about Japan to visitors, since many people usually have similar questions regarding various customs, attitudes, manners, etc.

One big thing that I tend to hear about is getting around the train system. Therefore, I decided I'd want to make a prototype for a series of edutainment videos on understanding how to get around via train in Central Tokyo. I would probably only get as far as making a storyboard regarding a subtopic within the overall topic of train.

So yea. Back to making an edutainment. Depending how it goes, I might continue with it into Kyoto rather than make another protoype for another thing.

I'll make another post with more pictures from this week's set of museum visits soon!