Nerd Nite Kyushu is rolling on forward with more fun talks held across Fukuoka! Next is our 19th event, and we’re talking all about “Creativity.” And where’s more appropriate to hold such an event than at Kyushu University’s Ohashi Campus’ Design Commons. Join us for a night to contemplate creativity and the vehicles we use to form it. There’s no bar at the venue but you can bring your own drinks, and there is no entry fee!
ナードナイト九州は、今年もさらに前進してます！19回目となるテーマは「想像力 」、今回は九州大学大橋キャンパスのデザインコモンズで開催します。想像力と、それを形成するものについて考える一夜にぜひご参加ください。会場にバーはありませんので、飲み物の持参してください！
Kyushu University Ohashi Campus Design Commons
Entry Fee: Free. Bring your own drinks.
入場料：無料。ドリンク持参。
You can register for the event from the link below (you can still join on the day)
参加申し込みはこちらののurlから（当日参加も可能）
https://forms.gle/Ko7kmBuzbP8dBiDS9
Speakers
Designing with all beings: how do we expand our business as usual?
By Tokushu Inamura
So, if every cell in the human body were to have a vote, what would happen? Do sacred mountains have rights?
In this talk we will talk about how the design of things, services and systems, have developed as a human-centered approach, and how this has both benefits and limits.From approaches to connect with non-human species, to legal innovations that learn from indigenous views, we will uncover ways that design is expanding it’s horizons and why you might want to see the world in a similar light.
Bio
Tokushu is a teacher/researcher at Kyushu University, yet is often seen pottering along riverside roads, or staring at birds or talking back at rocks. He holds a double Master’s degree in Innovation Design Engineering from the Royal College of Art and Imperial College London. He likes to challenge minds, and get out of the class room or Ivory towers. He has teaches in the Design Futures at undergraduate, and Strategic Design at the graduate level. Born in Aotearoa New Zealand, with Roots in the Amami Islands, he currently resides in Fukuoka City Japan with his loving family.
https://www.sd.design.kyushu-u.ac.jp/en/faculty/inamura-tokushu/
How Theater Can Outwit AI (and Maybe Survive the Apocalypse)
By Martins Zarins
What unifies an intelligence agent, a polyglot, a therapist, a street musician and a designer? It is the ability to adapt. Theater – one of the oldest and most inexplicable technologies – may soon return to the center of the zeitgeist!
Anyone who has experienced a great play or concert knows: replicating human stage performance remains an impossibility for AI.
As AI keeps outsmarting us with its capabilities, it’s time we gave it (italic) a blue screen for a change. The dusty techniques of Stanislavsky, Strasberg, Shakespeare and other masters might just hold the keys to thriving in the post-apocalyptic future!
Bio:
Martins Zarins is a researcher and teacher of theater directing and acting at Kyushu University. He is also a jack of all trades, with a repertoire spanning music composition, five languages, and a brown belt in Goju-Ryu karate.
He comes from the tiny Northern European country of Latvia — a peculiar place with one of the oldest languages in Europe and one of the highest numbers of state theaters per capita in the world.
Martins seems to possess a strange magnetism that summons the right teachers — and perhaps even their ghosts — onto his learning path.
