「コンシリエンスデザイン」とは、端的な定義を行えば、学術性と芸術性、文科系と理科系の融合・結合・統合を「学際化」することが定義である。その学際化された教育と研究による’新たなデザインでの造形言語と形態言語によって問題解決と危機解決を図ることである。しかし、日本の国内外全ての大学機関にこの教育講座と研究機関は存在していない。特に、本来のコンシリエンス概念には文科系と理科系のいわゆる文理融合にすぎなかったが、コンシリエンスデザインは学術性と芸術性＋文理融合により、結合性・統合性による学際化である。

The definition of “consilience design” is, plainly speaking, to “interdisciplinarize” the fusion, combination, and integration of scientific nature and artistic nature in literature and the sciences. The target of consilience design is to solve problems and crises utilizing new designing language and designed language created through interdisciplinarized education and research. However, no universities in or outside of Japan have educational courses or research institutions of consilience design. The original concept of consilience was only the “fusion” of literature and science; however, consilience design specifically means interdisciplinarization through the combination and integration of the academy and art in literature and the sciences.

ところが日本は、March 11.2011=3.11東日本大震災で国土の三分の一を失った。日本は先進国家であり、敗戦国家として広島・長崎での被爆経験と国家消滅を体験してきたが、さらに大震災大津波の天災と人災である福島原発事故では原子力利用で脱原発から再生可能エネルギーという科学的な否定性までを呼び込み、あらためて学術性の真善美と経済性・産業性での教育システムの見直しが当然となっている。よって、この「学際化」を促し、特に人材養成、その維持とその実務を具現化するのは「コンシリエンスデザイン」であると考える。やがて100億人を地球環境では気候異変と感染症増大、エネルギー問題を学術と芸術の統合性をデザインとして、問題解決・安全安心の医工連携をデザインで看護学・保健学・医科学を母体に、新たな超資本主義や超民主主義を革新するための大学機関創成になると判断している。したがって、発想・表現・伝達はデザイン学教育の基幹であるが、発想のための探索と調査、表現のための思考・意図などを記号論にまとめる。それは数理科学的な言語論としての展開性を芸術と学術の学際性にまで整理統合する。それは、造形言語と形態言語での伝達能力の養成を実務学としてコンシリエンスデザインでの問題解決と危機解決での教育と研究で医科学基幹とした学際性を完備させることを目標目的としている。

Unfortunately, one third of all areas in Japan were affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake that struck on March 11, 2011. Japan is a developed nation that has been subjected to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and experienced the vanishing of the State as a defeated nation. In addition, the natural disasters of the Great East Japan Earthquake and the tsunami, and the human disaster situation created by the Fukushima nuclear disaster invited scientific denial of the abandonment of nuclear power and the practical application of renewable energy that uses the help of nuclear power. This situation justifies reforming academic goodness, truth and beauty, and the education systems of economy and industry. I think, therefore, that what promotes the interdisciplinarization required for such reformation, especially for the realization of development and maintenance of human resources, as well as the realization of their practical affairs, is consilience design. The present global environment, which will hold 10 billion people in the future, is awaiting climate anomaly, an increase of infective disease, and energy problems. The solution for the circumstances is, according to my judgment, the creation of universities that innovate in super-capitalism and super-democracy, and their creation will be carried out by reforming the integrity of the academy and arts and designing medical-engineering collaboration for problem solving, security, and safety using nursing, health science, and medical science as the matrix. Accordingly, ideas, description, and communication are the bases of design education. I will summarize the investigation and examination of ideas and the consideration and intention of descriptions in semiotics. This will consolidate the evolvability of mathematical scientific linguistic theory into the interdisciplinarity of academy and art. The purpose and target of the approach is to bring full interdisciplinarity based on medical science to education and studies of problem and crisis solutions with consilience design, and practical education will be provided by training educators in communicative competence in designing and using designed languages.

かつて、学術や芸術分野に、「学会＝academy・society・association・institute」が形成されたのは、1603年アカデミア・デイ・リンチェイ＝Academia Die Lanceが最初だったと言われている。以来、学会は「見えざる大学＝invisible college」といわれ、専門分化された領域が提示した「パラダイム」と呼ばれる画期的な概念や方法論が、世界観の変革を誘導・誘引する大きな役割をもつ組織となったといわれている。ところが全世界の大学などの教育や研究機関は、いつのまにか「見える＝visible」存在となり、新たな学術領域や芸術分野は、それぞれ、閉鎖性・独断性・分断性・権力性・権威性により、組織そのものが硬直化や陳腐化をさけることができなかった。結果、それぞれの専門性が「学際化」することのために融合化と統合化する方向は、表面的には肯定されてきたようだが、現実的には完全に否定されてきたものと考えることができると私は考えている。今、もっとも緊急かつ切実に切望されているのは、専門分化の融合化と結合化と統合化に他ならない。すなわち、「最先端的な学際化」をコンシリエンスデザインと考案した。

It is said that the first academy/society/association/institute formed in the academic or art field was the Academia dei Lincei established in 1603. Following this, academies were called “invisible colleges,” and according to a general view, the epochal concepts and methodologies called “paradigms” presented by the specialized field of each academy turned the academies into organizations with great roles that induced and led revolutions in ways of understanding the world. However, educational or research institutions such as universities all over the world were “visible,” meaning that they did not draw much attention, and the organizations themselves in the new academic and art field were not able to avoid becoming rigid and obsolete because of their exclusivity, dogmatism, separatism, authoritarianism, and hierarchism. Therefore, the policy for the fusion and integration of various fields in order to “interdisciplinarize” their specialties is outwardly admitted; however, it has been, I think, completely rejected in reality. Currently, what is most urgently and desperately desired is none other than the fusion, combination, and integration of separated specialties. In other words, it is “cutting edge interdisciplinarization,” which I devise as consilience design.

■ セルロース素材ベースでの核変換や新結合素材での危機対応

■ フォトニクス応用の医療機器からシステムデザイン

■ 危機対応の避難器具から動体装置の開発

■ 循環器・消化器・脳外科用の再生医療システム開発

■ 次世代看護・介護用機器の研究・開発と制度設計

■ 人工臓器群と再生医療との融合開発

■ 範健康のための生活支援機器の研究・開発

■ 開発途上国向け感染症検査機器の開発

■ Construct a crisis response with nuclear transmutation or new material based on a cellulose material

■ Medical equipment and system design to photonics technology

■ Development of escape apparatuses and dynamic equipment for crisis & risk

■ Development of regenerative medicine system for a circulatory organ, digestive organ and cerebral surgery

■ Institutional design for next generation nursing and care equipments

■ Fusion development of artificial organs and development design to the regenerative medicines

■ Study of life support equipments for the realization on exemplary health science

■ Development of a screening equipment for infectious diseases for developing countries