Yūko Kikuchi

Reframing evaluation and “frameworks”: Reflecting, learning and adapting practices of social change

Sarah Kushinsky, Yoko Akama, Ko-Le Chen, Hirotake Imanishi et autres

Evaluation is a double-edged sword. For those invested in social change, it is vital to evaluate the process and impact of designing. However, traditional positivist approaches can risk harm by magnifying power through the instruments and mechanisms of evaluation, especially when Global …

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Go For Kogei

Yūko Kikuchi, Tanya Harrod

Go For Kogei is a progressive series of contemporary craft exhibitions and critical forums (including symposia and publications) that proposes “New Perspectives on Craft from Hokuriku.”1 The initia...

‘ความอนใจ (Kharm Unn Jai)’: honouring transcultural experiences in supporting women

Khemmiga Teerapong, Ko-Le Chen, Yoko Akama, Sarah Kushinsky et autres

This paper presents autoethnographic accounts from women design researchers, each sharing their culturally grounded approaches to support women in a transcultural mentoring programme. The authors examine the concepts of ‘safety’ and ‘safe spaces’, by unpacking these terms through decolonial perspectives. The paper’s …

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Recasting ‘shadows’: expanding respectful hierarchies in participatory design practices

Yoko Akama, Ko-Le Chen, Hirotake Imanishi, Yūko Kikuchi et autres

Participatory design (PD) often prioritises being vocal and equal as signs of empowerment in enabling social change. But what can such preference inadvertently ignore, like silence and passivity? What relationships might be prevented or put at risk when hierarchies are flattened? This …

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Invisible Designing: Emotional and Affective Labour in Relational Participatory Practices

Joyce Yee, Yoko Akama, Areli Avendano Franco, Ko-Le Chen et autres

This paper presents emotional and affective labour as invisible designing required to nurture social relationships in participatory practices. Participatory Design (PD) is often framed through visible acts of designing, such as envisioning, co-creating and prototyping. Yet little is shared of the emotional …

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A Comparative Study of the Use of Japanese Majolica Tiles in Modern Japan and Japanese Colonial Taiwan

Kana Yasuno, Yasufumi Uekita, Yūko Kikuchi

This paper discussed the connection between “Japanese majolica tiles” in modern Japan and Japanese colonial Taiwan, and the differences in the way tiles are used during these periods from both Japanese and Taiwanese perspectives. Japanese majolica tiles were manufactured in Japan primarily …

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A Survey of Anxiety Tendency and Sleep Quality of Dental Hygienist School Students During Clinical Observation Practice（2）:

Akio Ohnishi, Yūko Kikuchi, MAMORU KOMEDA, Kyoko Higuchi et autres

and Athens Insomnia Scale (AIS)

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Anxiety Tendency and Sleep Survey in Dental Hygienist School Students before and after Clinical Observation Practice （1）:

Akio Ohnishi, Yūko Kikuchi, MAMORU KOMEDA, Kyoko Higuchi et autres

Introduction: Previously, we reported that there was a relationship between the anxiety tendency （STAI） and oral wetness of dental hygienist school students in clinical observation practice. However, although there have been reports on the relationship between the STAI and sleep survey （PSQI）, …

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Compliance of Static Stretching and the Effect on Blood Pressure and Arteriosclerosis Index in Hypertensive Patients

Etsuko Yamada, Sayuri Sakai, Mieko Uchiyama, Hansani Madushika Abeywickrama et autres

Background: Treatment of high blood pressure is a combination of lifestyle changes and medications, and appropriateexercise therapy is recommended as one of the lifestyle-related changes. Recently, stretching, a low-intensity exercise, was reported to be antihypertensive and effective for improving arteriosclerosis, in addition …

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The Sustainability of Crafts: Shifting the Paradigm of “Traditional Crafts”

Yūko Kikuchi, Hirotake Imanishi

Japan is proud of its ‘traditional crafts’. However, the future of its crafts is by no means secure. The makers lack successors, supply chains are aging, materials are no longer available, while the new generation of customers have new tastes and the …

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Go For Kogei 2021

Yūko Kikuchi

GO FOR KOGEI is a festival of five venues spread across three prefectures (Fukui, Ishikawa and Toyama) in the Hokuriku region of Japan, which also includes several online events. Kogei, and its rom...

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Predictive Value of the Cardio‐Ankle Vascular Index for Cardiovascular Events in Patients at Cardiovascular Risk

Toru Miyoshi, Hiroshi Ito, Kohji Shirai, Shigeo Horinaka et autres

Background Arterial stiffness is an important predictor of cardiovascular events; however, indexes for measuring arterial stiffness have not been widely incorporated into routine clinical practice. This study aimed to determine whether the cardio‐ankle vascular index (CAVI), based on the blood pressure–independent stiffness …

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