On August 2023, 8, Tokyo Medical and Dental University and Tokyo University of the Arts signed a comprehensive partnership agreement.Amid the need for a multifaceted approach to addressing increasingly complex social issues, he aims to create innovation and value for the new era through the fusion of the different fields of medicine and art.
According to Tokyo Medical and Dental University, efforts to promote based on the agreement
・Promotion of creation of innovation, regional revitalization, and urban development through the fusion of medicine and art
・Human resource development for new hospital environment creation and value creation
・Promotion of art communication to create a symbiotic society
-Such.Specific projects include the “Our Hospital Development Project” promoted by both schools with the aim of creating an ideal hospital, participation in the “Tokyo Well City Plan” centered on Mitsubishi Estate, and medical research specializing in artists. and special medical research.
In collaboration between the two schools, there is a project to create projection mapping in the pediatric ward at the Tokyo Medical and Dental University Hospital in Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo in 2021, and with the cooperation of the designers of the Graduate School of Film and New Media, Tokyo University of the Arts, medical staff such as doctors and nurses are hospitals. It all started with my encounter with art.
Yujiro Tanaka, president of Tokyo Medical and Dental University, said, "We want to develop this relationship even after the merger with Tokyo Institute of Technology, which is scheduled for next fall." We would like to use the medical knowledge of Tokyo Medical and Dental University to find solutions to these issues, and seek the spiritual richness of each and every one of them.”
