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AY 2025

Special Symposium: "What We Need to Hear Now: The Future of the Construction Industry and Digitalization"

This inaugural symposium for fiscal year 2025 (Reiwa 7) carries the theme "What We Need to Hear Now." For two years since its establishment, the Architectural Urban DX Research Group has continuously pursued the cutting edge of digital transformation in the architecture and urban fields. Now, we feel that we are at a time to once again confront "the future that DX should aim for." Labor shortages, productivity, and sustainability—to address the challenges facing the construction industry, the Architectural Urban DX Research Group will hold a symposium focusing on "industry-academia collaboration" as the driving force for progress. We welcome three distinguished speakers who are leading Japan's construction industry: Professor Kazumasa Ozawa from the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (construction management field), President Hidekazu Matsumura from Kobe Design University (architectural production field), and Vice President Yasushi Asami from the University of Tokyo (urban analysis field). While hearing about new visions for the construction industry's future through co-creation with industry from each of their perspectives, we will explore through their three-way discussion the approach to DX that the entire construction industry should share, and the roadmap toward its realization.

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