EBA Innovation City Fieldwork 2026

EBA Fieldwork Program is an on-site, immersive experience where participants apply the Evidence-Based Approach to real-world issues. The EBA Innovation City Fieldwork 2026 focuses on future society, disruptive technologies, and human-centered innovation. Over the course of the program, learners explore how rapid technological transformation may redefine human relationships, cities, resilience, and everyday life, while considering how innovation can be applied responsibly toward socially, economically, and environmentally resilient futures.

Participants actively apply the EBA method in practice, through field-based data collection, analysis, visualization, and storytelling. Using a human-centered design perspective, they observe and discuss the possible impacts of integrating new technologies into society. Through visits to technology, science, innovation, and accessibility-related sites, participants engage with different stakeholders, investigate data flows and human needs, and work in groups to design a diorama of a future city.

By completing this program, learners strengthen their ability to connect field evidence, human-centered perspectives, technological understanding, and social imagination. The experience deepens their awareness of disruptive technologies, responsible innovation, and resilient city design, preparing them to contribute meaningfully to future societies shaped by emerging technologies.

Study Requirement: 90 hours, including pre- and post-fieldwork activities

Topics Covered in This Course

Future Society and Disruptive Technologies: Examining how emerging technologies may reshape human relationships, cities, resilience, and the ways people live, work, move, and interact.
Human-Centered Design and Responsible Innovation: Exploring how human-centered design can guide the responsible application of new technologies toward socially, economically, and environmentally resilient futures.
Data Flows and Resilient City Design: Investigating how data, technology, and human needs can be connected to imagine future urban systems and resilient daily life.
Locations Visited: Participants engage with sites and stakeholders, including Haneda Innovation City, Toyota Woven City Nihombashi Office, Miraikan, Kawasaki Robostage, Kawasaki Quantum Internet Task Force Lab at KBIC, and the Avatar Cafe DAWN.
Field Observations and Reflection: Participants join hands-on sessions, science communication activities, technology site visits, open data workshops, group discussions, diorama development, and presentation preparation to connect field evidence with future city design.

Learning Outcomes

This course offers learners the ability to:

Apply the Evidence-Based Approach (EBA) to real-world field research challenges.
Understand the EBA method, which consists of data collection, data analysis, data visualization, and storytelling, and practice it in the field.
Understand the possible disruptive impacts of integrating new technologies into society.
Analyze how emerging technologies may redefine human relationships, cities, resilience, and everyday life.
Apply human-centered design perspectives to consider responsible technological innovation.
Collect, document, and interpret evidence from technology, science, accessibility, and innovation-related field sites.
Develop a diorama of a future city that represents possible technology implementation, data flows, and human needs.
Communicate findings through storytelling, visual presentation, group work, and final presentation.

Related Courses

Introduction to EBA course
- Understanding the Internet is one of the components of the APIE Core Course and provides foundational knowledge of how the Internet works.

Learn more about the EBA programs at eba.soi.asia.

Prerequisite

Completion of the Introduction to EBA program is a prerequisite for joining the EBA Fieldwork program

Criteria

This badge was awarded to the learners who completed the following criteria:

Participate in pre-workshop activities in preparation for the fieldwork.
Join the fieldwork and actively participate in all field activities.
Present outcomes of the fieldwork and further developments during the final public presentation.
Successfully complete the fieldwork’s final report.