RCIC
Research Center for Industrial Culture

ACTIVITIES

Annual Report 2024

In the 2024 fiscal year, alongside the carrying out of the “Gifu land of clear waters” 2024 cultural festival, a variety of cultural events were held in various locations in Gifu. As a part of those events, IAMAS held the “Media Expressions in the Age of Digital Transformation - considering art from a new everyday” exhibition and the “Ogaki Mini Maker Faire 2024.”
Additionally, the artwork exhibition of Professor Ryota Kuwakubo “Land of clear waters - culture search ‘Art Discovery in Southern Hida’,” and through the Visions in Motion project “Suitopia x IAMAS Collaborative Exhibition - Ugokizm ~ to move, make move, and see movements ~” an exhibition was also held in Gifu.
As a “community cooperation / industry-academic-government cooperation,” emphasis was placed on collaborative research activities done with the Gifu-Kakamigahara Air and Space Museum. Entering the third year of collaborative research, we present the research results of each of the following three themes “Research concerning the design of a learning space using learning resources,” “Research concerning the museums activities of disseminating education via the usage of AR learning materials,” and “Research regarding the application of extended reality in the museum.” Using these results as a base, the development of learning contents by the museum and progression towards exhibition planning that utilizes extended reality is to be anticipated. Aside from this, the “IAMAS Kodomo Daigaku” held in collaboration with Ogaki-shi was also held again and we were able to be met with a favorable reception.
As for industry-academic collaborations, collaborative research is regularly conducted with firms outside the prefecture, and discussions towards new collaborative research are being held. Meanwhile, the fact that collaboration with firms in Gifu prefecture is not progressing much remains an issue. We plan to work hard predominantly on collaborations with firms within the prefecture from the next fiscal year onwards.
Regarding “PR and information archiving activities,” we have endeavored on the expansion of our web contents and improvement in the frequency of updates. Additionally, in terms of exhibition publicity, we were able to exhibit at the “Gifu land of clear waters” DX Promotion Forum. We proceeded with our experiments of an audio guide app, and we plan to work hard towards exhibition publicity that uses this app from now on.