Wednesday, December 26, 2007

Tokyo potpourri




Narita






Akihabara




Roppongi Hills



University of Tokyo

Ueno Park
Photo - Gaurav Goyal

Shibuya


Asakusa





Photo - Deepankar Nayak

Shinjuku

Wats in Bangkok



Wat Intharawihan







Wat Arun






Wat Saket

The Royal Grand Palace in Bangkok








Monday, December 24, 2007

Suvarnabhoomi



The Journey of the Five Travellers ('Les Cinq Voyageurs')

Now that so many people have asked me: These pictures are from the 'Tokyo International Students Summit' organised by the University of Tokyo's International Relations Institution of Students. The event was organised to mark the 130th anniversary of the university. The purpose of the whole summit was to design a proposal for the Ministry of Education in Japan. The proposal should suggest a method for educational systems to foster leadership in the future generations. 15 students from outside Japan joined 10 students from the University of Tokyo in this international brainstorming session. The 25 students were divided into groups of 5 each. Each group had to design a proposal. More about our innovative proposal later.

Photos: Rajib Ranjan Borah, Marcin Lapczynski, Shoei Kurokawa, Veronika Bordas

Les Cinq Voyageurs:
Rajib Ranjan Borah
Hideyuki Furuta
Nguyen Than Loah
Petr Matous
James McDaid

The team naming exercise


Team Building Exercise - treasure hunt to Tokyo Tower

Team trip to Roppongi Hills with Kazuma
Dear James and Petr, sorry for not being able to include you in the photograph.


This is where it all started - The Coherence Core Model
It is connectedness and not connectness - excuse the spelling mistake


We even had 'origami' to highlight the changing scenarios worldwide.

The existing notions ...

... unfolding into the current scenario.





Brainstorming and refining the model




The final presentation - 'Listening to Voices'.
Leadership from the voiceless



Leadership from the voiceless - learning from the indigenous, the local communities and from the impoverished

We had a discussion about our dresses. I just realised that there should have been no debate about the best dress at all - after all my neck-tie colors matched those of one of the background images






Awaiting questions

The winning moment - the reason for all the sleepless nights