Monk of Landscape Architecture, Kyoto University of the Arts.
Classmate Feng. Or I plan to graduate and change careers as soon as I enter graduate school, so I am so relaxed that I never feel anxious, and I count the number of times I take leave to skip classes;
Or it's the volume king who is so hard with himself that he barely sleeps. ”
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Q: Tell us a little about yourself?
A: I'm Feng, and I just graduated from Kyoto University of the Arts this year with a master's degree in landscape architecture.
q：What kind of discipline are you in?
A: I feel like it's a very good subject.
After coming in, I found that everyone: either they plan to graduate and change careers as soon as they enter graduate school, so they are so relaxed that they never feel anxious, and count the number of times they ask for leave and skip class; Or it's the volume king who is so hard with himself that he barely sleeps. I feel like this discipline is like this, there are people who can't hold back at any time and feel that they can't see the future and money, but those who like it will feel a great sense of accomplishment after completing the project again and again (I myself am in a calm state). But it's amazing that everyone is very tolerant of everyone's differences, so they can talk together. I heard that we will change from seminar mode to studio mode in the next session, so we recruited a lot of people, but I don't know how many people will be ready to change careers after that. It's quite interesting to see everyone in their twenties and thirties in this discipline.
Artwork of Feng's graduation work
Artwork of Feng's graduation work
Artwork of Feng's graduation work
Q: Can you tell us about your graduation project?
A: My research direction is urban renewal, and my research area is mainly in Kyoto. Therefore, when M1 was mainly a project near Higashi Honganji Temple in Shimogyo Ward, M2 is now mainly doing research in Kamigyo Ward. In addition, in Nara City, Nara Town, I made a theme park about Kyogen (this design study is a bit complicated, so let's not say more, look at the picture). In the end, I wrote more than 30,000 words, but another professor quarreled with my professor during the defense, thinking that my professor should let me mainly write**, maybe I could write more comprehensively. Directly put the pressure on me into the future.
Feng's graduation work.
Feng's graduation work. 
Feng's graduation work.
Q: Do you plan to stay and work in Japan or do you plan to return to your home country?
A: After graduation, I plan to return to my home country first, and then see if I can apply for a PhD in other countries. However, in the past two years, I have been mainly busy advancing my own research, so I have only just started to learn a small language, and I have just begun to prepare for English.
q：Are you busy with lectures and projects? Are there any lectures or topics that you are particularly interested in or have you been thinking about?
A: There are quite a lot of M1 classes, but they are basically centered around the major, which is quite interesting. Other times, I would meet with my own professor every week to discuss the progress of my research. The topic of interest may be M1 has a professor who asked us to use that kind of perforated ** box (?) It's quite interesting to make your own **, and in the landscape design after that, I also pay more attention to the sound landscape, as well as the sensory experience.
Q: Tell us about your professor?
A: My professor's name is Ken Kawai. The first time I saw him on the official website, Google automatically translated it as "kawai ken", and I thought it was funny. I didn't expect to enter the school and find that he was so cute. I sat in front of the large floor-to-ceiling windows in the research room, and every time he walked by quickly, he would come back backwards to greet me. At that time, I entered Japan a month late, and the first time we met, he said that I was a Benwu, and then he took me up and down the mountain with an umbrella and ran many times to introduce me to all the teachers. But it's very, very boundary, I see other professors joking and chatting with their students and going out to eat or something, my professor is the type who sits next to me and puts his legs away from me, and the whole person twists his body to keep a distance from me. Cute but with a sense of boundary, he will be extremely protective when defending, and he is a well-known angel in our environmental field.
One of Feng's graduation works.
Q: Did you encounter anything interesting at school?
A: There are three cats in our lab. At one point, Zemi ended up going out with her computer and found them munching on a dead bird's brain, the bones crunching. I thought that the hunting cat was handsome, but after that, I started putting 1kg of cat food in the laboratory.
Q: What have you been focusing on lately? What are you interested in?
A: Recently, I have been obsessed with Feng Shui and metaphysics. There is a large cemetery at the bottom of the hillside of the research room, and when the cherry blossoms bloom in spring, the sunlight shines through the petals on the tombstones.
Share a photo of the autumn leaves you took next to the lab last fall.
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