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Abstract:

The speaker will discuss, with demonstrations, the method of designing digital archives that allow us to pass on to future generations the valuable memories of wars and disasters, including the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Great East Japan Earthquake, and the invasion of Ukraine, along with how to build a community that encourages its members to voluntarily nurture such archives.

Speaker: Dr. Hidenori Watanave, 

Professor, Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies & Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, The University of Tokyo

Speaker’s Profile:

Hidenori Watanave

Born in 1974. Professor of the Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies and Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies at the University of Tokyo. He received BE (Diploma Award) and ME degrees in Architecture from the Tokyo University of Science and PhD in Engineering from the University of Tsukuba. He has held the posts of Associate Professor of the Faculty of Systems Design at Tokyo Metropolitan University and Visiting Scholar of the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies at Harvard University. His publications include “Spinning the Data and Connecting it to the Society” and “Rebooting Memories of Prewar & War Through Colorized Photographs in Collaboration with AI and Human”(co-authored).

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