



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
Hachinohe is home to a variety of factories, some of which have decade long histories, while others have sprung up in the past few years to meet the demands of new industries. But the one thing that has remained constant over the years is that the factories have remained constant leaders in the development of Hachinohe City, and key factors to its achievement as a premier industrial city.
This year marks the 5th Anniversary of the foundation of HKD, and to celebrate this occasion we have invited 3 companies that represent the importance of the factories in our community’s past, present, and future, as those invited include the Hachinohe Cement Factory ( formally the Hinode / Iwaki Cement Factory) a local factory from the area that will be celebrating its 100th year of operation next year, the “ULVAC Tohoku” which has been in business for 30 years this year, and the “Hachinohe Biomass Power Generator” which will begin operations next spring.
Furthermore, we have invited the artist Sacco, who is well known amongst factory enthusiast for her paintings of factories, to come and talk about his efforts in creating the Fuji Industrial Night Scene Club, and to introduce his book entitled “Factory Book” which the he created under collaboration with the Hachinohe Book Center.
The After-School Club offered by HKD this year will be working with the hacchi portal museum’s annual craft fair to create original factory themed goods, and to plan an exhibit to display factory themed art pieces.
Join the HKD in finding a fresh new perspective of the factories of Hachinohe, one in which an appreciation of these magnificent establishments will permeate your daily life.
The HKD Curriculum: Lectures & Field Trips - 2017 -
Date
Contents, Lecture
vol.1
August 23, Wed,
19: 00 - 21: 00
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Orientation
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Lecture: Get to Know the Factory Vol 1: “Biomass Power Generator: The Energy of the Future”
Lecturer = Hachinohe Biomass Power Generator
vol.2
September 8 Fri,
19: 00 - 21: 00
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Lecture: Learning from Other Cities: “Capturing the View of Factories at Night”
Lecturer = Takahide Washimi (Fuji Factory Night View Club) -
Workshop: The Hachinohe Book Center: “Enjoying Books about Factories”
vol.3
September 20 Wed,
19: 00 - 21: 00
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Lecture & Workshop: Factories & Art: "The Paintings of Sacco: Factories"
Lecturer & Workshop Director = Sacco (Artist)
vol.4
October 4, Wed,
19: 00 - 21: 00
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Lecture: Get to Know the Factory Vol 2: “The Lime Industry in Japan & Hachinohe”
Lecturers = Masaaki Okada (Professor, Kinki University), Hachinohe Cement
vol.5
October 18, Wed,
19: 00 - 21: 00
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Lecture: Get to Know the Factory Vol 3: “Backbone of the Japanese Industry: The Vacuum (Chamber?)”
Lecturer = ULVAC Tohoku
Field Work
September - October
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Factory tour.
After-School Clubs & their Yearly Events - 2017 -
The Arts & Crafts Club

The Craft Fair in Hacchi Portal Museum = November 17 (Fri) – 19 (Sun) 2017
We will be exhibiting handmade, factory-themed goods during the Craft Fair in Hacchi Portal Museum! We invite you to come and make original handmade items, or to help with the set-up and management the craft fair of shops.
The Photography Club

Join the photography club members as we take and select exceptional photos of factories for our upcoming photo exhibit (January, 2018. )
We aim to take rich, moving photos where you can feel the textures, colors, and size of the factories of Hachinohe.
The HKD Art Exhibit: - Hachinohe Kojyo Art - "Fascinated with Factories"

January 6 (Sat) - 14 (Sun) of 2018, Hachinohe Portarl Museum "Hacchii"
The HKD Art Exhibit - Hachinohe Kojyo Art “Fascinated with Factories” - will exhibit some amazing factory themed art work and interesting factory models, which are guaranteed to change your perception of factories as industrial centers to that of works of art.
Lecturer & Factories Profile

1987年に設立。真空技術を基本として様々な産業分野で使用する生産設備を製造。その設備から、液晶パネルや半導体、自動車部品、医薬品やその他日々の生活に身近な様々な商品が生み出されている。

八戸の地で100年近い歴史を持つセメント工場。八戸鉱山(八戸石灰石鉱山、通称・八戸キャニオン)で採掘された石灰石を主原料に各種セメントを生産している。NSPタワーのライトアップでも市民に親しまれる工場。

住友林業、住友大阪セメント、東日本旅客鉄道の3社が共同出資して設立。未利用の林地残材や間伐材等、地域の森林資源を燃料として有効活用する。大型工場が多く建ち並ぶ河原木地区にて2018年4月操業開始予定。

Professor, Kinki University 近畿大学理工学部教授。東京工業大学大学院博士課程修了。博士(工学)。専門は、景観工学、土木史、ヘリテージスタディ。 著書に『テクノスケープ~同化と異化の景観論』『日本の砿都~石灰石が生んだ産業景観』など。

Artist 画家、アーティスト。筑波大学大学院芸術専攻修了。画家、アーティスト。工場や工業地帯をモチーフとした作品を制作している。ポップな色彩に包み込んだ独特な着眼点で人工物を描きだす。ストックホルム(2013)やニューヨーク(2016)などで個展を開催。

Leader of Fuji Factory Night View Club 富士工場夜景倶楽部代表。富士山の麓、富士市の工場夜景写真を発信する会として2012年に発足した民間団体。「工場・自然・生活の共生」を富士市の魅力として行政と共に市内外へ発信し、地域活性化、シビックプライドの向上を目指し活動。

八戸に「本好き」を増やし、八戸を「本のまち」にするための、「図書館でも書店でもない、行政が運営する新しい文化の拠点」として、2016年12月に中心街にオープン。書棚には、工場好きにはたまらない書籍も取り揃えている。
Members of Hachinohe Kojyo Daigaku

"President " of HKD 八戸工場大学学長。八戸工場撮影ファンクラブ発起人/八戸経済新聞編集長 岩手大学大学院資源開発工学専攻修了。岩手県土木技術振興協会で景観評価や環境アセスメントに携わる。「八戸観光遊覧船で行く工場夜景撮影ツアー」を行うほか、八戸の工場の魅力を伝える案内人をつとめる。 「今年も八戸の工場をはじめ多彩な講師の方々を迎えて八戸工場大学が開講します。普段なにげなく見ている工場も、色々な角度から学ぶ事でより多くの魅力に気がつきます。」

Advisor クリエイター/八戸工場大学アドバイザー 東京藝術大学大学院美術研究科先端芸術表現専攻修了。炭鉱をはじめ鉱山や工場をテーマに創作活動を行う。室長を務めるコールマイン研究室は各地でアートプロジェクトや展示を行い、新しいアートの在り方、可能性を探っている。 「講義や工場見学に加えて、皆さんと共にアートの視点から工場を見つめる事でその魅力に深く迫りたいと思います。八戸の工場は凄い。面白い。そして美しい。」

工場好き・アート好きはもちろん、物知りになりたい、工場で働いている、星空が好き、八戸に引っ越してきた、友達ほしい!など、受講生になるきっかけは人それぞれ。応募お待ちしています!」
Event (Exhibition)
HKD Art Exhibit:
Hachinohe Factory Art "Fascinated with Factories"
Finding the Alluring Beauty of Factories through Art
January 6, sat, - 14, sun 10:00-19:00 *only 6, sat =13:00 open 14, sun =17:00 close
Hacci ( Hachinohe Portal Museum) , Free
The HKD’s exhibit - Hachinohe Factory Art “Fascinated with Factories” -has been driven by the goal to build an exhibit that expresses “the alluring beauty of factories through art,” and we are confident that it has achieved just that.
In recent years, group tours have cropped up around the country offering to take customers to view the other-worldly factory landscapes at night or cruises to view the dramatic buildings and lights of factories from above the water. This has led to factory sites becoming an increasingly attractive new source of tourism. But what is causing this sudden interest in factories and their landscapes? In order to explore this inexplicable fascination that has been on the rise in the country the exhibit has brought together a series of different art pieces in different mediums, such as the paintings of Sacco, the paper-cuttings of Mikio Ohnishi, the three-dimensional models of Takuji Kikuchi, and the photographs of from the Photography Club of HKD, after which seen visitors to the exhibit will quickly understand the moving power and beauty that so many have found in factories.
Hachinohe is a city that not only draws its industrial strength from its factories, but it also draws its industrial beauty from its factories. Join us as we explore the wonderful art that has been born from the magnificence of Hachinohe’s factories.

Artists

Sacco, Series of Factory Factory
Painting

Mikio Ohnishi, Series of Scenery on the other side
paper-cutting

Takuji Kikuchi, " Tower Plant 8"
three-dimensional models

The Photography Club of HKD, " Our Perspective"
photograph
Photo Gallery


八戸工場大学Photoシリーズ


2017年1月に実施した、アートイベント「虹色の狼煙」

八戸工場大学Photoシリーズ


八戸工場大学 Photo Gallery

八戸工場大学 Photo Gallery

八戸工場大学 Photo Gallery