12month6day(soil),At the Kirarahama Nature Observation Park Visitor Center (Yamaguchi City),Take the Master's Program common subject "Project Practical Seminar A"graduate school rawPlanned by 6 peopledidWorkshop"Bee HotelLearn about the Bee Room!Making mugs that help support natural living"of, Professor Yasuzo Uchida, Department of Urban Design Faculty of Architecture and Civil Engineering Department of Civil and Urban Design Engineering B is being tackledee HotelIn collaboration with the design projectOpenIt was held.
The workshop, with the theme of "Learning about Bee Hotels,"was attended by approximately 50 people, ranging from young children to adults. Bee hotels are small, room-like habitats where solitary bees lay their eggs and raise their larvae.
After learning about the problems caused by the decline in bee populations and efforts to set up Bee Hotels, participants created their own original mugs. These mugscan be used as regular mugs at home, and can also be used as Bee Hotels by replacing the inserts (the internal material for building nests). The replacement inserts were made by students from the Environmental Economics Laboratory in the Faculty Faculty of Economics using reeds and bamboo harvested from the reed beds of Kirarahama Beach. The mugs were distributed to participants at the end of the workshop.
Motoki Shiraishi (OtsuHigh School), a first-year master's student in the Graduate Graduate School of Fine Arts who planned the workshop, reflected, "We started by understanding the ecology of bees. We then considered what size and design the Bee Hotel should be using mugs so that children would have fun while working on it. As an art student, I was conscious of sparking their interest through expressive activities, rather than simply conveying knowledge about the environment. As we drew on the mugs together, the children naturally asked questions about bees, and it was an experience that truly made me realize how the act of creation can lead to learning. I feel that this activity provided an opportunity to think about how bees are connected to our lives and the environment. Seeing the children take their completed Bee Hotel home and look forward to the bees visiting, I saw the potential for learning to spread to everyday life."
[Graduate School/ Department of Civil and Urban Design Engineering / Faculty of Economics]
