Miki Fujimoto’s work “Celestial Sound Observation Society” wins the Grand Prize in the New Hope Award at Good Design Award 2025

Miki Fujimoto (2nd year doctoral student, Nohara Laboratory), from the Department of Transdisciplinary Science and Engineering, School of Environment and Society at Science Tokyo, received the Grand Prize in the New Hope Award at Good Design Award 2025 for “Celestial Sound Observation Society,” created in collaboration with Fushi Sano from Keio University Graduate School.

Final presentations by the eight recipients selected for the Excellence Award were held on December 20, and the Grand Prize winner was announced on the same day.

Award-winning work “Celestial Sound Observation Society”

“Celestial Sound Observation Society,” which won the Grand Prize in the New Hope Award at Good Design Award 2025, was submitted in the “System Design” category of the award. The work converts stellar data observed by astrometric satellites into sound and delivers it in real time to participants through headphones, enabling them to “listen to stars through sound.” It proposes a new astronomical observation experience in urban areas where light pollution makes it difficult to see stars.

※The above article is reprinted from our university’s “Science Tokyo News.”
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