


designed by Susumu Yoshida (字と図)

ABOUT
The Hachinohe Kojyo Daigaku (HKD), meaning the Hachinohe Factory University, was founded in 2013 as an art project to reshape impressions held about the numerous factories that Hachinohe is home to from a new and multifaceted point of view. The factories of Hachinohe are very much economic pillars of support for the community; they are facilities that have fostered its growth and development. But, in our opinion, they are also worthy of praise outside of their economic utility for the community. From the start of this project to this very day, the HKD has striven to expose the public to the beauty that can be found in these factories, as they are facilities to be celebrated for their cultural, scenic, aesthetic, and creative worth in their own right. And it is this worth and beauty that we strive to express through art by connecting with and being run by the very people, industries, artists, and local government of our city.
The shining lights of the factory in the dark night, a history that has walked hand-in-hand with the port of our city, Life, Development, Industry: The Factories of Hachinohe
Discover through art the power and beauty exemplified in the very factories passed by unnoticed in our daily lives.
Hachinohe is an Industrial City; Hachinohe is a City of Factories
The industrial creation and production brought forth by our city’s factories is the pride and strength of Hachinohe.

Just like an actual university, HKD utilizes a curriculum, and it is one composed of three main programs:
Learn: Lectures & Workshops
HKD invites a variety of artists and professionals from all sorts of different industries to come and talk about factories as they work to reshape the very ideas we have about factories from a cultural point of view.
See: Field Trips
After listening and learning about factories from the lecturers, we invite student to attend field trips to the factories lectured about and experience first-hand their inner workings.
Create: After-School Clubs
Working with the factories themselves, the HKD and its students design, set up, and hold various art projects as an accumulation of their learning at HKD.
Curriculum
There are many factories in Hachinohe, such as the paper mill and metal refining factories that operate to support our livelihood. These factories require a number of other factories to sustain their operations.
This year at Hachinohe Kojyo Daigaku (HKD), we will be focusing on the theme, “Factories Supporting Factories”, introducing the power plants that supply energy to our local factories, the manufacturing equipment that controls the production lines, maintenance operation factories, and much more.
Furthermore, various programs will be held, such as an experimental Open Campus Lecture that anyone can attend, an art project themed around the Giant Smokestack in Hachinohe, an event that focuses on the aesthetics of the factory’s industrial parts, and a factory themed tanka poem workshop. These programs will allow you to fully enjoy the presence of Hachinohe’s iconic industrial zone, so we hope you’re looking forward to it!
Open Campus - Public Lecture -
Open Campus - Public Lecture “Three Coastal Factories”-
July 25(Wed.) 2018 , 19:00~21:00
