端山貢明さんとトーク2003「問題の構造を捉えよう」 (Talk 2003 with Hayama Kōmei: "Let Us Grasp the Structure of the Problem")

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From the 端山貢明アーカイブ (Hayama Kōmei Archive), item 9884 in the 講演・講義 category, registered 2022-10-02: https://d-commons.net/hayama/?c=&p=9884. Published by the 端山貢明アーカイブプロジェクト (Hayama Kōmei Archive Project), directed by 前川道博 (Michihiro Maekawa) of Nagano University, on the D-Commons platform, and licensed CC BY (表示). The source documents come from the 端山文庫, the papers kept in Hayama's laboratory at Tohoku University of Art and Design, digitised by the project with the agreement of his family; his autograph scores were given to the University History Archives of the Tokyo University of the Arts in 2026. Source: A one-page PDF standing in for a video record published on YouTube (https://youtu.be/e540KBUOX2U). The page carries a single frame — Hayama, gesturing, in front of bookshelves — under the caption 「端山貢明さんとトーク2003「問題の構造を捉えよう」」. The recording was made in Maekawa Michihiro's laboratory at Tohoku University of Art & Design.. Dated: recorded 17 February 2003. The archive publishes this item as 1 separate page scan rather than as a PDF; the download here was assembled from those scans in page order, each taken at the higher of the two resolutions the archive serves. This item is not a text but a catalogue stand-in: a single still frame from a long video, with its caption. What it records, according to the archive, is a tutorial held on 17 February 2003 in the laboratory of Maekawa Michihiro, then a full-time lecturer at Tohoku University of Art & Design, with Hayama — by that date professor emeritus of the same university — and several students in a free-ranging conversation of some length. The title 「問題の構造を捉えよう」 ("let us grasp the structure of the problem") was applied afterwards; the talk itself ranged widely. Its stated purpose was pedagogical in a particular sense. Hayama had spent years in classes, seminars and tutorials teaching students how to look at and think about things, but none of that teaching had been recorded; this session was an attempt to capture the method on tape. The aim was to get students to notice, through conversation rather than instruction, what is worth thinking about and how to think about it — the same move he makes in the printed interview of 1998, where he insists that finding a problem means finding its structure rather than hunting for topics. The archive is candid about the object's condition. It was shot on two cameras as an experiment in multi-track editing and released shortly after recording; this version was re-captured from the original DV tape and re-edited. Picture and sound are described as less than good, a telephone rings partway through, and conversation about the camera setup is audible in parallel; none of that was cut. The participating students have been anonymised and their faces kept out of the re-released version. For a library the value is as evidence of Hayama's teaching practice rather than as a document that can be read. People named: 端山貢明 (Hayama Kōmei), 前川道博 (Maekawa Michihiro). Noted: The PDF contains no text of the talk; everything here beyond the single video frame and its caption comes from the archive's own description. The number of students present, and the running time of the video, are not stated. The archive records that both the editing and the re-release decisions (anonymising students, leaving in the telephone and setup chatter) were Maekawa's.