A Seminar for Collaborative Study between Departments of Art and Technology

With the background of our university’ s advantageous constitution of both art and engineering departments, we have developed a curriculum that educates students with regard to both technological knowledge and artistic capability. In this paper, we introduce an intensive seminar that we have developed for training students’ skill of collaboration and communication with people who are from other technical domains. The seminar sets the target to sophomore students who are supposed to have finished general subjects and not to be specialized to each department too much. The students make a small group and work on an assignment of developing an interactive system that requires both technical and artistic skills and finally make a presentation on their works in the classroom.