Ikeda, Satoshi

Kasahara, Koichi

Mogi, Kazuji

Sato, Mah

Tetsuka, Chihiro

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The Color Arrangement Workshop – UnderstandingCultural DiversityChihiro Tetsuka1, Mah Sato2, Koichi Kasahara3, Satoshi Ikeda4, Kazuji Mogi51Tokyo University of Social Welfare Junior College, Japan; 2Chiba University;3Tokyo Gakugei University; 4Hiroshima University; 5Gunma UniversityAbstractIn this workshop, we focused on "color" as a device for drawing participants’everyday life which might depict our socio-cultural backgrounds promotingthe understanding of cultural diversity.The differences of the socio-cultural environments give various meanings toeach "color." On the other hands, the innovation of the dye technology andglobalization had made it possible that people choose the color not only basedon the institutional culture but also their color preference. Therefore, we de-signed the color arrangement workshop, which allows participants to chooseand arrange colors based on one’s sense and cultural background. The pur-pose of this workshop is to understand cultural diversity through making thecolor arrangement. The idea of this workshop based on a Japanese traditionalcolor arrangement for traditional cloth called KASANEMOIROME.We conducted the following activities: 1) choosing the color with the themeof "the everyday," 2) naming colors, 3) arranging colors, 4) naming the color1390 Synnyt / Origins | 2 / 2019 | Abstractsarrangement, 5) presenting one’s own work and share each other’s learningexperience.KeywordsCultural diversity, Color arrangement, Traditional Japanese cloth.1391 Synnyt / Origins | 2 / 2019 | Abstracts

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