大学共同利用機関法人 人間文化研究機構　国立民族学博物館

Objectives

This research aims to categorize human expression as integration of sensory behavior and intellectual behavior the body. In addition, such expressions of the self position the body as a coexisting intermediary, and further expression centered at that point can be thought to create and form a cycle. This research will attempt to use this multidimensional place known as a museum for this kind of cycle of expression and make use of its cultural resources in application to programs for understanding other cultures. As a result, individuals involved with these resources hopefully will begin to feel for the lives and thoughts of people living in various cultures, which can lead to the integration of an intellectual understanding of these cultures to deepen their feelings. That is, this research aims to create the designs for assisting creative expression such that deepening feelings towards the existence of individuals living in other cultures will be stimulated.

Furthermore, this multifaceted forum has double meanings: a place for the function known as a museum that gathers together various cultural resources and a place for existence where people of different ages and genders, with or without physical handicaps, and with varying degrees of knowledge express, can exchange with each other and with the involvement of cultural resources. If in this double sense this research can prove itself in giving birth to and engendering a cycle of bountiful expression, we should be able to use the programs which we develop in educational activities in the schools or apply them even more broadly in general social education and practice. At that time programs can also assist in promoting expressive creation in multifaceted forums, so that this research will be able to apply technical support from the field of mechanics in addition to past human assistance. This technical assistance aspect should also provide help in the construction of programs for understanding other cultures.