3D Edition Workshop at Keio University

From 16-20 September 2024 Professor Susan Schreibman was in Tokyo Japan spreading the word about PURE3D. On Tuesday the 17th Professor Schreibman partnered with Professor Kiyonori Nagasaki from Keio University in Minato to deliver a workshop to a group of around 25 Keio University staff and students to create 3D editions from the rich holdings from the Fukuzawa Yukichi Memorial Keio History Museum. The workshop delved into the conceptual underpinnings of 3D editions. Working in small groups, three 3D editions were conceived. Objects that were explored included a hand warmer in the shape of a rabbit which was owned by the Japanese writer Kyoka Izumi, a bust of Keio University’s founder Yukichi Fukuzawa, and a female statue who lost both arms in the Tokyo Air Raid.

Later in the week, Professor Schreibman participated in a panel discussion at the 2024 Japanese Association of Digital Humanities conference held at Tokyo University. The panel, entitled ‘Sustainable Infrastructure for Scholarship in Three Dimensions’ also featured talks by Kiyonori Nagasaki (Keio University), Jun Ogawa, and Shintaro Seki (both from The University of Tokyo) who presented the editions they created at an earlier PURE3D workshop Susan gave at the University of Tokyo in the summer of 2022.