At Kyoto Seika University, faculty members and three student volunteers from the School of Design Life Creation Course created the "Seika Material Reuse Station" as a place to hand over surplus production materials to other students, and installed it at five locations on campus.At the university, which works on SDGs throughout the university, this is an initiative that falls under Goal 3 “Responsibility to Create and Responsibility to Use” of the SDGs.
Kyoto Seika University has faculties such as the Faculty of Arts, the Faculty of Design, and the Faculty of Manga, where various works are produced every day due to lesson assignments and free production.Students purchase the materials such as paper, wood, and cloth necessary for production, but the surplus materials are often discarded.
Therefore, volunteer students gathered around Mr. Masashi Yonemoto, a faculty member of the Life Creation Course, Department of Product Design, Faculty of Design, and started the project in December 2019.Although there was a one-year suspension of activities due to the Corona sickness, it was completed and installed at the timing of the start of the second semester class in October 12.
The reuse station will operate for about 9 days from September 24th.Various materials such as painting materials such as wood and colored pencils, books, bags, and clothes were reused through the station.A message board that students can fill out is also installed at the station, and the students who used it leave comments such as "I received the box. Thank you!", And the connection within the university through reuse is activated.
