Séminaire. Une autre façon de raconter. 2019-2020

In Japan, under the term Waza (わざ) we mean the embodied know-how, the mastery of a craft act but also the processes and forms of tricks that go with it; it is loaded with profound meaning whose intensity is equivalent only to the pleasure experienced in performing or seeing performed an effective manual action. This word, the conceptions, practices and devices it implies will serve as a basis for questioning at new costs – closely mixing interaction and culture – the question of learning and transmission in both formalized and institutionalized universes and informal or performative ones. By calling on development psychology, primate ethology, hunter-gatherer anthropology, but also design, history, sociology or the sciences of education to contribute, we intend to take up again these central questions of Francophone

Programme

9:00 am – 4 pm
Welcome and introduction
Aude Fanlo (Head of Research & Teaching Dept. Mucem) and Annabel Vallard (Head of Techniques & Culture)

9:10 am
General introduction on the scientific issues of “Waza”
Akira Takada (Kyoto University), Xiaojie Tian (University of Tsukuba), Masaki Shimada (Teikyo University of Science) and Frédéric Joulian (Centre Norbert Elias/EHESS)

9:20 – 9:30
Presentation of the policy of the University of Seika and of the “Center for Innovation in Traditional Industries” with a special address to the WAZA question.
Oussouby Sacko (President of Seika University)

Session 1 (9:30 am – 4:30 pm). Waza, play & apprenticeship