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Day 1 Keynote session
Thomas Heatherwick
Founder and Design Director, Heatherwick Studio
Thomas Heatherwick is a British designer whose prolific and varied work over two decades is characterised by its ingenuity, inventiveness and originality.
Defying the conventional classification of design disciplines, Thomas founded Heatherwick Studio in 1994 to bring the practices of design, architecture and urban planning together in a single work space.
Thomas leads the design of all Heatherwick Studio projects, working in collaboration with a team of 170 highly skilled architects, designers, and makers. Thomas’ unusual approach applies artistic thinking to the needs of each project, resulting in some of the most acclaimed designs of our time. Based in London, Heatherwick Studio is currently working in four continents on projects valued at over £2 billion.
Thomas has been appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire, a Royal Academician and in 2004 became the youngest Royal Designer for Industry.
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Day 1 Keynote session
Gerfried Stocker
Artistic Director, Ars Electronica
Gerfried Stocker is a media artist and telecommunications engineer. In 1991, he founded x-space, a team formed to carry out interdisciplinary projects, which went on to produce numerous installations and performances featuring elements of interaction, robotics and telecommunications. Since 1995, Gerfried Stocker has been artistic director of Ars Electronica. In 1995-96, he headed the crew of artists and technicians that developed the Ars Electronica Center’s pioneering new exhibition strategies and set up the facility’s in-house R&D department, the Ars Electronica Futurelab. He has been chiefly responsible for conceiving and implementing the series of international exhibitions that Ars Electronica has staged since 2004, and, beginning in 2005, for the planning and thematic repositioning of the new, expanded Ars Electronica Center.
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Day 1 Keynote session
Day 1 Leading-edge Technology session
Blaise Agüera y Arcas
Principle Scientist, Google
Blaise leads a team at Google focusing on Machine Intelligence for mobile devices—including both basic research and new products. His group works extensively with deep neural nets for machine perception, distributed learning, and agents, as well as collaborating with academic institutions on connectomics research. Until 2014 he was a Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft, where he worked in a variety of roles, from inventor to strategist, and led teams with strengths in interaction design, prototyping, computer vision and machine vision, augmented reality, wearable computing and graphics. Blaise has given TED talks on Seadragon and Photosynth (2007, 2012) and Bing Maps (2010). In 2008, he was awarded MIT’s prestigious TR35 (“35 under 35”).
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Day 1 Leading-edge Technology session
Day 2 Future Tokyo session
Hiroaki Kitano
President and CEO, Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc.
KITANO is President and CEO of Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc., President of The Systems Biology Institute, Professor at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, and Director of Laboratory for Disease Systems Modeling, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Kanagawa. Corporate Executive, Sony Corporation.
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Day 1 Leading-edge Technology session
Neri Oxman
Associate Professor, Media Arts and Sciences, MIT Media Lab
Neri Oxman, Architect and Designer, founded the Mediated Matter research group at the MIT Media Lab. Her research enhances the relationship between the built and the natural environments by implementing design principles inspired or engineered by Nature in the invention of novel digital design technologies.
Her work has been exhibited at MoMA (NYC), Smithsonian Institute (Washington, DC), Museum of Science (Boston, MA), FRAC Collection (Orleans, France), and the 2010 Beijing Biennale. Permanent collections include MoMA (NYC), and the Centre Georges Pompidou Museum. In 2014, Oxman won the Vilcek Prize in Design and Boston Society of Architects Women in Design Award.
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Day 1 Art & Creativity session
Masayuki Sono
Co-Founding Partner, Clouds Architecture Office
In 2015 Clouds Architecture Office (Clouds AO) and Space Exploration Architecture (SEArch) collaborated with a team of subject matter experts on a proposal for a pioneering Mars mission. Their proposal, "Mars Ice House," was awarded the top prize in NASA’s Centennial Challenge for a 3D Printed Habitat on Mars. The team, comprised of Christina Ciardullo, Kelsey Lents, Jeffrey Montes, Michael Morris, Ostap Rudakevych, Masayuki Sono, Yuko Sono and Melodie Yashar, is currently participating in the conceptual design of a Martian habitat made of ice at NASA's Langley Research Center.
Masayuki Sono is a co-founding partner of Clouds Architecture Office based in New York with Ostap Rudakevych. He holds Masters Degrees from University of Washington and Kobe University. Masa has worked on diverse projects ranging from urban scale cultural complexes to public arts. He received American Institute of Architects Public Project Award with winning design for international competition of New York Staten Island 9/11 Memorial. He has taught at Pratt Institute and lectured at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art and University of Tokyo. Clouds AO's explorations focus on design of experiential qualities of built environment and research-based concepts that test architectural inhabitation of the atmosphere and outer space.
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Day 1 Art & Creativity session
Melodie Yashar
Architect, Space Exploration Architecture / Assistant Professor, Pratt Institute
In 2015 Clouds AO and Space Exploration Architecture (SEArch) collaborated with a team of subject matter experts on a proposal for a pioneering Mars mission. Their proposal, "Mars Ice House," was awarded the top prize in NASA’s Centennial Challenge for a 3D Printed Habitat on Mars. The team, comprised of Christina Ciardullo, Kelsey Lents, Jeffrey Montes, Michael Morris, Ostap Rudakevych, Masayuki Sono, Yuko Sono and Melodie Yashar, is currently participating in the conceptual design of a Martian habitat made of ice at NASA's Langley Research Center.
Melodie Yashar is an architectural designer based in New York and a member of the design collective Space Exploration Architecture (SEArch)—a group building upon a 10-year portfolio of academic space research and practice in developing human-supporting concepts for space exploration. With a background in industrial design, Melodie co-teaches a joint industrial design and architecture studio at Pratt Institute as part of NASA's X-Hab (eXploration Habitat) Innovation Challenge for Human Centered Designs (2016), a NASA project collaboration to develop transit modules for Mars. Melodie is also co-founder of Sonic Platforms, an experimental media collective operating at the intersection of audiovisual art and the built environment, seeking to activate public engagement through the experience of sound and moving image.
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Day 1 Art & Creativity session
Tom Sachs
Artist
Working primarily in bricolage—the art of making the most of cheap, found, and readily available materials—the sculptor TOM SACHS is best known for his mash-up remakes of cultural touchstones. He and his studio have fashioned everything from a Chanel branded guillotine and a line of Ikea particleboard and carbon fiber Donald Judd chairs, to a complete, ruthless, loving American re-engineering of traditional Japanese Tea Ceremony, a 1/25 scale Radiant City in which Le Corbusier and McDonald's utopian totalitarianisms are synthesized in mutually reinforcing harmony, and an ongoing NASA-paralleling space program. But his true subject is the humanity of work itself, skilled labor that is, and the way that subcultures of making, and in particular those defined by high levels of precision and invention (e.g. fine-finish woodwork, hip-hop songwriting), expose rifts in our individual and collective identity formation. The industrial indoctrination films (e.g. Ten Bullets, COLOR, A Love Letter to Plywood, How to Sweep, and the feature-length A Space Program), encyclopedic publications, systems of production, and generous, collaborative studio culture that he obsesses over every day in support of these projects have, in the minds of many, raised his practice to the level of a social science or a form of ethics.
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Day 1 Art & Creativity session
Zack Denfeld
Artist / Co-founder, the Center for Genomic Gastronomy / Researcher, Science Gallery, Dublin
Zack Denfeld is an American artist who works at the intersection of art and science, with a focus on the ecological, cultural and social dimensions of life on Spaceship Earth. In 2010, with Cathrine Kramer, he co-founded the Center for Genomic Gastronomy, an artist-led think tank that investigates the organisms and environments manipulated by human food cultures. The Center has collaborated with scientists, chefs, hackers and farmers in Asia, Europe and North America. Their work has been published in WIRED, Science, Nature and Gastronomica and exhibited at the World Health Organization, Kew Gardens and the V&A. Zack holds degrees from Syracuse University and the University of Michigan and is currently a lecturer of interaction design at the Bergen Academy of Art & Design and a researcher at the Science Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin.
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Day 1 Art & Creativity session
Ang Ming Chee
General Manager, George Town World Heritage Incorporated
Ang Ming Chee has been the General Manager of George Town World Heritage Incorporated since January 2016. After accumulated some 14-year of international experience in Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Taiwan, and Sweden, she returned to Malaysia to serve the State of Penang. She has solid competence in conducting research and public policy analysis, and has drafted the chapter on “Culture, Arts, and Heritage” for the Penang Paradigm project for the Penang Institute (2013). She has demonstrated leadership in project planning and team management, and has extensive experience as trainer on conflict management and capacity building. She received her Doctoral Degree in Political Science from National University of Singapore (2011) and a Master of International Studies from the Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University, Sweden (2002). She speaks fluent Thai and can jokes in Swedish. She has some 20 publications, including a monograph, Institutions and Social Mobilization: The Chinese Education Movement in Malaysia 1951-2011, published by the Institute for Southeast Asian Studies-Yusof Ishak Institute, Singapore (2014). Other publication includes a journal article at Pacific Affairs (2012), 6 edited books, 6 chapters in edited book, 2 working papers, 4 articles—including the cover story for Penang Monthly on “Deepening George Town’s Heritage: The Follow-Up and Challenges Ahead” (2012).
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Day 1 Art & Creativity session
Vo Trong Nghia
Architect / Founding Partner, Vo Trong Nghia Architects
Vo Trong Nghia was born in 1976 in Vietnam. He moved to Japan in 1996 as a Japanese government’s scholarship student and started studying architecture. After graduation from Nagoya Institute of Technology in 2002, he joined the University of Tokyo’s Landscape and Civic Design Laboratory under the Department of Civil Engineering and received his master’s degree in 2004.
In 2006, he started his firm, Vo Trong Nghia Architects in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. His aim is to rehabilitate Vietnamese urban condition with greenery in order to reconnect humans back to nature. Realization of series of green project and bamboo structure brought him global awards and recognition.
Nghia received international prizes and honors including but not limited to; AR House award, ARCASIA gold medal and Building of the Year, FuturArc Green leadership Award. He also was selected as one of 2014s Young Global Leaders by the World Economic Forum.
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Day 1 Art & Creativity session
Yukinori Yanagi
Artist
Yukinori Yanagi was born in 1959. He completed studies at Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, where he earned a degree (MFA) in sculpture. In 1993, Yanagi received the “Aperto ‘93” award at the 45th Venice Biennale. He set up studios in New York and San Francisco where he worked actively until 2001. Yanagi has also been invited to a number of overseas international exhibitions such as La Biennale de Lyon and Whitney Biennial. In 1995, he conceived a project to regenerate a legacy of modern industrialization on a remote island (an abandoned copper mine), into a work of art. This project culminated in the completion of “Inujima Seirensho Art Museum” in 2008. After returning to Japan, Yanagi is now serving as a director at “Art Base Momoshima,” a private art center he established by using an abandoned school in Momoshima, Onomichi City. Yanagi is currently exploring new horizons of expression, with a remote island in the Seto Inland Sea as his work field. In addition to being invited to participate in Busan Biennale this year, Yanagi is currently holding a personal exhibition at BankART Studio NYK in Yokohama, using the entire museum, as a culmination of all activities he has conducted so far as an artist.
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Day 2 Future Tokyo session
Naoki Adachi
Sustainable Business Producer / Founder and CEO, Response Ability, Inc.
After receiving PhD from Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, worked for National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES) and Forest Research Institute Malaysia (FRIM) for tropical forest research projects. Started his own consultancy, Response Ability, Inc., in 2006.
Since then he has been involved and led numbers of projects for leading Japanese corporations and ministries on sustainable business, responsible supply chain management and biodiversity conservation. Have working for Japan Business Initiative for Biodiversity (JBIB) as Executive Director since 2008. Also works as committee members or advisors to Sustainable Management Forum, Sustainability Forum Japan and governmental committees.
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Day 2 Future Tokyo session
Hiroaki Katayama
President & CEO, Stratasys Japan
Hiroaki Katayama graduated from the School of Human Sciences, Waseda University. He was appointed President & CEO of Stratasys Japan in January 2014. With extensive experience in managing the business of importing industrial machinery, including 3D printers, as well as managing a manufacturing business in the Chinese market, Katayama heads Stratasys Japan, which has been focusing on major industries such as automobiles, education, consumer electronics, consumer goods, medical equipment, and industrial equipment.
Prior to joining Stratasys Japan, Katayama held various executive positions in Altech Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Altech), its subsidiaries, and related companies. After joining Altech in 1993, he served as manager of the Objet Business Department as well as manager of the Digital Printer Business Department, both of which are under the Industrial Machinery Business Headquarters. After 2011, Katayama has overseen China, concurrently serving as president of Altech New Materials (Suzhou) Co., Ltd. and director at Altech Trading (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. After October 2013, he served as representative managing officer, and concurrently as deputy general manager of the the Industrial Machinery Business Headquarters and manager of the Digital Printer Business Department.
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Day 2 Future Tokyo session
Keisuke Ichihara
Executive Officer, Rakuten, Inc.
Keisuke Ichihara was born in Osaka, Japan in 1968. He received an LL.B from Kyoto University in 1991. After working in the banking and IT industries, he joined Rakuten, Inc. in 2007 where, in 2015, he was appointed as an Executive Officer. His current responsibilities include government relations, with a focus on the promotion of the “Fourth Industrial Revolution” which the Japanese Government is pushing forward.
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Day 2 Future Tokyo session
Yukihiro Maru
President and CEO, Leave a Nest Co., Ltd.
Completed a doctorate in the Department of Biotechnology at the Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo; Ph.D. (Agriculture)
While still studying at the Graduate School, Maru established Leave a Nest with only science and technology undergraduate and graduate students. He was the first to commercialize “on-demand cutting-edge science experiment classes” in Japan. He operates “knowledge-manufacturing” that generates seeds of new businesses by combining management resources and technologies that lie dormant in universities and local communities. He has also promoted more than 200 projects through his “knowledge platform,” an infrastructure that gathers knowledge that exist in the world. Maru is an innovator who has been involved in launching many venture firms such as Euglena, for which he has served as a technical adviser.
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Day 2 Future Tokyo session
Izumi Okoshi
Executive Business Creation Director (EBD), Business Creation Center / Head, Dentsu Innovation Institute / Director, Legacy Project Design Office and 2020 Project Production Department
Ms. Okoshi joined Dentsu in 1998 after working as a research fellow at a private think tank and as a brand manager at a foreign-affiliated manufacturer. She assumed her current post in 2014 after serving in the Marketing Department, Communication Design Center, Business Design Lab, etc.
She has been engaged in promoting co-creation type business design for sustainable growth through industry-government-academia / cross-industrial collaboration, in addition to aiming at accelerating innovations, taking 2020 & Beyond as an opportunity, and being involved in client companies’ domestic and overseas business strategies and brand communication strategies.
2016: Member of screening jury for Nikkei BP Marketing Awards
Member of screening jury for All Japan Radio & Television Commercial Confederation (ACC) Marketing Effectiveness Category, etc.
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Day 2 Future Tokyo session
Koichiro Yoshida
CEO / Founder, CrowdWorks Inc.
Koichiro Yoshida was born in 1974 in Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture. After working at Pioneer Corporation and other companies, he experienced listing DRECOM on Tokyo Stock Exchange’s Mothers market as an executive officer of that company. In November 2011, he founded CrowdWorks Inc. and has been operating “CrowdWorks,” the largest crowdsourcing platform in Japan. The company has been listed on Mothers in three years after it was founded. As of August 2016, the number of its registered members has exceeded one million, and the number of companies using its services has reached 140,000. In 2015, the company received an award at the 1st Nippon Venture Awards hosted by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and also an award at the Good Design Award 2015.
Blog: http://crowdworks.jp/ceo-blog/
Twitter: @yoshidaCW
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Day 2 Future Tokyo session
Akiyuki Minami
CEO/Co-Founder, coconala Inc.
Born in 1975 in Nagoya City, Akiyuki Minami graduated from the Faculty of Economics at Keio University and completed an MBA at Oxford University. After engaging in investment and management support activities at the Corporate Research Department of Sumitomo Bank (now Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation) and Advantage Partners, a pioneer in corporate acquisition fund, Minami founded WelSelf Inc. (now called coconala Inc.) in January 2012, and developed and manages a C2C EC platform called “Coconala.”
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Day 2 Future Tokyo session
Koji Koizumi
Founder & CEO, R.GENE Inc. / Chief Editor, IoT NEWS
Born in 1973; chief editor of IoT NEWS; and IoT consultant.
Studied neurocomputing at Osaka University, and assumed current position after working at Andersen Consulting (currently known as Accenture), Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, and Techfirm Inc.
Has written the following books:
“Nijikan de Wakaru Zukan IoT Bijinesu Nyumon (Asa Publishing Co., Ltd.)”
“Kokyaku to Motto Tsunagaru (Nikkei BP)”
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Day 2 Future Tokyo session
Tsuguo Nobe
Chief Advanced Service Architect and Director, Intel Corp / Visiting Associate Professor, Nagoya University
Joined NEC Corp. in 1983 and established IBM PC compatible business in the US and European countries and then introduced those product lines also in Japan after 1995. At the wake of Internet Broadband era, in 2001, established one of the Japan’s biggest On-line Game companies and served as CEO. Joined NISSAN in 2004 and spearheaded the engineering and business developments of Vehicle IoT until 2012. Since 2012, pursuing research, engineering, business and policy developments of Connected and Automated Vehicles. Acting Visiting Associate Professor at Nagoya University since 2014.
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Day 2 Future Tokyo session
Genki Kanaya
President and CEO, akippa Inc.
Part-time lecturer at Graduate School / School of Economics, Osaka University
After graduating from high school, Kanaya played soccer for four years as a trainee in local soccer leagues and the J League. After retiring, he gained experience in sales at a listed company for two years. In February 2009, he founded akippa when he was 24 years old.
From 2014, Kanaya started operating “akippa,” a peer-to-peer parking lot sharing service that allows users to park their cars in 15-minute time slots in vacant spaces at monthly parking lots and private homes.
Kanaya has raised a total of 1.2 billion yen in funding from DeNA, GLOBIS, TORIDOLL, Asahi Broadcasting Corporation, and Mitsubishi UFJ Capital Co., Ltd., among others. In December 2014, Kanaya won first place at the IVS 2014 Fall Kyoto Launch Pad, the most prominent venture capital presentation event in Japan.
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Day 2 Future Tokyo session
Hisashi Taniguchi
President & CEO, ZMP Inc.
Hisashi Taniguchi has been involved in the development of anti-lock brake system at an automotive parts manufacturer. After experiencing technology sales and entrepreneurship at a trading company, he founded ZMP in 2001. He worked on the development and sale of residential bipedal walking robots and music robots for home use, and then advanced into the automotive field from 2008. He has supplied autonomous vehicles for manufacturers and research institutes. Currently, Taniguchi is promoting the “Robot of Everything” strategy aimed at the development of robot technology in various fields such as robot taxis, CarriRo (Kyariro), and drones. He has been enrolled in a doctoral program at Tokyo University of Fine Arts and Music from 2016.
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Day 2 Future Tokyo session
Tatsuyuki Negoro
Professor, Waseda Business School / Director, Research Institute of Information Technology and Management, Waseda University
Tatsuyuki Negoro is a professor at Waseda Business School, and Director of Research Institute of Information Technology and Management, Waseda University. He graduated from Kyoto University, completed an MBA at Keio Business School, worked for a steel manufacturer, became a visiting researcher at University of Hull in the UK, taught at Bunkyo University, etc. and is now serving in his current position. He has also served in such posts as president of the Japan Society for Management Information, vice-president of International Academy of CIO, Japan, and adviser for CRM Association Japan. His major publications include “IoT Jidai no Kyoso Bunseki Furemuwaku (Competition Analysis Framework in the IoT Age)” (compiled by Chuo Keizaisha), “Bijinesu Shiko Jikken (Business Thought Experiments” (Nikkei BP), “The Logic of Business Creation” (Nikkei BP), and “The Strategy of Substitutes” (Toyo Keizai Inc.).
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Day 2 Future Tokyo session
Michitaka Hirose
Professor, the University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology
Michitaka Hirose is a professor at the University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology.
He was born in Kanagawa prefecture, on May 7, 1954.
He received M.eng. and Phd. in 1979 and 1982 from the University of Tokyo.
He has been an associate professor, Faculty of Engineering at the University of Tokyo from 1982 to 1999.
His current research activities include Systems Engineering, Human Computer Interaction and Virtual Reality. He wrote a book “Virtual Reality” (Sangyo Tosho).
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Day 2 Future Tokyo session
Tatsuro Sasaki
President, Sasaki Architects and Associates
Born on October 9, 1964 in Tokyo
Withdrew after acquiring credit for a doctor’s degree at the Graduate School, Tokyo Metropolitan University in 1992; after working at Design Studio Architects, assumed current position in 1994; and involved in community revitalization, research and study, and education, centering on architectural design. Currently, serving as a member of the board of directors at Tokyo Society of Architects & Building Engineers, vice president of Yokohama Machizukuri Club, and landscape adviser for Chiyoda City.
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Day 2 Future Tokyo session
Hideki Kasai
Manager, PPP Business Department, Technological Business Development Division, Obayashi Corporation
Hideki Kasai joined Obayashi Corporation in 1989, and since then has designed redeveloped complexes, office buildings, commercial establishments, film studios, city parks, and more. In addition to working on a hypothetical CG recreation of the ancient Library of Alexandria, he has been involved in the “FUWWAT2050” construction project and the “Smart Water City Tokyo” construction project.
List of major awards:
・Grand Prize in Environmental Art
・Nagoya City Scenic Design Award
・Aichi Cityscape and Architecture Award
・IES Illumination Award
・Good Design Award
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Day 2 Special session
Kevin Slavin
Assistant Professor, Media Arts and Sciences, MIT Media Lab
Kevin Slavin is a serial entrepreneur and assistant professor / founder of the Playful Systems group at the MIT Media Lab in Cambridge. The group works on projects ranging from chess tournaments in Las Vegas to urban metagenomics in Tokyo, researching how the experience of complex systems can move beyond information, into delight.
Prior to MIT, Slavin founded several companies, including Area/Code, which pioneered the use of new technologies and platforms (like GPS, optic sensing, and genetic data) in game development, inventing novel forms of interplay between games and cities. The company was acquired by Zynga in 2011, after years of working with everyone from Nike to Disney to Electronic Arts.
His work has been exhibited at MoMA, the Design Museum of London, the Frankfurt Museum fur Moderne Kunst, and other international venues. There was a recent feature profile in WIRED Japan and his collaboration with Mori is currently exhibited in the Venice Architecture Biennale.
His influential TED talk on How Algorithms Shape the World has nearly 4 million viewers, and has been the inspiration for scripted TV shows, a 60 Minutes segment, and advertising for Apple.
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Day 2 Special session
Masayuki Ishikawa
Japanese Manga Artist
Born in Osaka Prefecture, Masayuki Ishikawa debuted as a manga artist in 1997 with “Nihon Seifu Chokkan Kidosentai Komuin V,” which became his first serialized manga. In 1999, he won a runner-up award for the Chiba Tetsuya Prize for “Kami no Sumu Yama” (included in “Hitokiri Ryoma”). After a series of short manga stories titled “Shukan Ishikawa Masayuki (Weekly Masayuki Ishikawa)” was carried on “Morning” magazine, “Moyashimon: Tales of Agriculture” was serialized starting in 2004 (and concluded in 2014). With this work, Ishikawa won the 12th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize Manga Grand Prize as well as the 32nd Kodansha Manga Award. Subsequently, “Maria, the Virgin Witch” started as a series in 2009 (and concluded in 2015). His latest work “Modowanai Hoshi” became serialized in May 2015.
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Day 2 Special session
Larry Weiss
Chief Medical Officer, AOBiome LLC
Larry Weiss MD is the Chief Medical Officer at AOBiome. He has an extensive background in natural products chemistry, microbiology, clinical medicine, and pharmaceutical development and product commercialization. Dr. Weiss is board certified in Anesthesiology, has an MD from Stanford University Medical School, and a BS from Cornell University in Biochemistry. He has a multiple patents and is published in the areas of chemistry, electrophysiology, pharmacology, and microbiology. Dr. Weiss is the founder of CleanWell Company.
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Day 1 Keynote session
Day 2 Future Tokyo session
Heizo Takenaka
Professor, Toyo University / Professor Emeritus, Keio University / Chairman, Institute for Urban Strategies, The Mori Memorial Foundation /Director, Academyhills
Heizo Takenaka is a Professor at Toyo University and a Professor Emeritus at Keio University. He is also Chairman of the Institute for Urban Strategies at The Mori Memorial Foundation and Director of Academyhills.
In 2001, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi named him the Minister of Economic/Fiscal Policy, the Minister of both Financial Services and Economic/Fiscal Policy in 2002, the Minister of both Economic / Fiscal Policy and Privatization of the Postal Services in 2004, the Minister of both Internal Affairs and Communication, and Privatization of the Postal Services in 2005. The following year, he returned to academia, leaving both the Cabinet and the House of Councilors when Prime Minister Koizumi resigned.
He received his B.A. in Economics from Hitotsubashi University and his Ph.D. in Economics from Osaka University. His academic experience is numerous, including Visiting Associate Professor of Harvard University in 1989, and Professor of Faculty of Policy Management at Keio University in 1996.
He is the author of numerous books, including "The Structural Reforms of the Koizumi Cabinet".
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Day 1 Leading-edge Technology session
Day 2 Future Tokyo session
Joichi Ito
Director, MIT Media Lab
Joichi Ito is the director of the MIT Media Lab as well as a Professor of the Practice of Media Arts and Sciences at MIT. He is chairman of the board of PureTech Health and a board member of Sony Corp., the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation , the Mozilla Foundation and The New York Times Co. He is the co-founder and a board member of Digital Garage. He is an Independent Senior Advisor to the Minister for Financial Services of Japan and a member of the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Center of Innovation (COI) STREAM governance committee. He is an Executive Researcher of Keio Research Institute at SFC. He has created numerous Internet companies, including PSINet Japan, Digital Garage and Infoseek Japan. He was an early-stage investor in Formlabs, Flickr, Kickstarter, littleBits, Path, Twitter, Wikia and other companies.
In 2008, Ito was named by Businessweek as one of the 25 Most Influential People on the Web. In 2011 Foreign Policy Magazine named him one of the "Top 100 Global Thinkers. Also in 2011, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Oxford Internet Institute in recognition of his role as one of the world's leading advocates of Internet freedom. In 2011 and 2012, Nikkei Business selected him as one of the 100 most influential people for the future of Japan.
In 2013, Ito was awarded a Doctor of Literature, honoris causa, from The New School. In 2014, he was inducted into the SXSW Interactive Festival Hall of Fame and was awarded the Golden Plate Award by the Academy of Achievement. In 2015, Ito was awarded a Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa, from Tufts University.
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Day 2 Future Tokyo session
Hiroo Ichikawa
Professor and Dean, Professional Graduate School of Governance Studies, Meiji University / Executive Director, The Mori Memorial Foundation
Hiroo Ichikawa is Dean at the Professional Graduate School of Governance Studies, Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan. He is also Executive Director, The Mori Memorial Foundation and President at the Meiji University Research Center for Crisis and Contingency Management. He is an expert in urban policy, urban and regional planning, and crisis management and has authored numerous books on issues related to Tokyo and metropolitan regions, including Tokyo’s Unipolar Concentration Will Save Japan (2015), Tokyo 2025: Urban Strategies for the Post-Olympic Era (2015), Urban Strategy for Tokyo (2012), Learning from the Disaster in Japan (2011), and Creating Japan’s Future (2008). He has also served numerous public and private organizations including the Japanese government, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Japan Telework Society, and Japan Association of Emergency Qualified Specialists. After receiving a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture and a Master’s degree in Urban Planning at Waseda University, he went on to the University of Waterloo in Canada, where he was granted a Doctoral degree in Urban and Regional Planning. He was born in Tokyo in 1947 and is a first-class registered architect in Japan.
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Day 1 Art & Creativity session
Day 2 Future Tokyo session
Fumio Nanjo
Director, Mori Art Museum
Fumio Nanjo has been director of Mori Art Museum since November 2006. Prior to taking the directorship at the Mori, he had served as the museum’s deputy director (2002-2006), after working with cultural organizations including the Japan Foundation(1978-1986). His main achievements include commissioner of the Japan Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (1997), commissioner at the Taipei Biennale (1998), member of jury committee of the Turner Prize (1998), artistic director of the Yokohama Triennale 2001, and artistic director of the Singapore Biennale (2006/2008). He graduated from Keio University in the faculty of Economics(1972) and Letters (Philosophy, Aesthetics and Science of Arts, 1977). Publications include Asian Contemporary Art Report: China, India, Middle East and Japan (2010) and A Life with Art (2012).
Program
Day
1
(10/19)
1-A
Keynote Session
10:00 - 12:00
City Brainstorming
Keynote Address 1
Keynote Address 2 - "Post Post-City"
Keynote Address 3 - "Machine Intelligence, Art, Augmentation and Agency"
Keynote Address 1
Keynote Address 2 - "Post Post-City"
Keynote Address 3 - "Machine Intelligence, Art, Augmentation and Agency"
1-B
Leading-edge Technology Session
13:00 - 15:15
Session1 - "Symbiosis with Artificial Intelligence"
Session2 - "New Metabolism: Krebs Cycle of Creativity"
Session2 - "New Metabolism: Krebs Cycle of Creativity"
1-C
Art & Creativity Session
15:45 - 19:00
Session1 - "The Universe and Living in This Extreme Environment"
Session2 - '-The Japan Foundation Asia Center Session-
"Lifestyles in Asia in the Future - Ideas from History, Culture, and the Environment –"
Session2 - '-The Japan Foundation Asia Center Session-
"Lifestyles in Asia in the Future - Ideas from History, Culture, and the Environment –"
Day
2
(10/20)
Day 1
10:00 - 12:00
Keynote Session
10:00 - 12:00
Keynote Session
City Brainstorming
Keynote Speaker
Heizo Takenaka
Profile
Professor, Toyo University / Professor Emeritus, Keio University / Chairman, Institute for Urban Strategies, The Mori Memorial Foundation /Director, Academyhills
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Keynote Address 1
Keynote Speaker
Thomas Heatherwick
Profile
Founder and Design Director, Heatherwick Studio
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Keynote Address 2 - "Post Post-City"
Keynote Speaker
Gerfried Stocker
Profile
Artistic Director, Ars Electronica
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Keynote Address 3 - "Machine Intelligence, Art, Augmentation and Agency"
Keynote Speaker
Blaise Agüera y Arcas
Profile
Principle Scientist, Google
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13:00 - 14:00
Leading-edge Technology Session 1
Leading-edge Technology Session 1
Session1 - "Symbiosis with Artificial Intelligence"
Moderator
Joichi Ito
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Director, MIT Media Lab
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How will the development of artificial intelligence alter our lifestyles? Will people lose their jobs? What will happen to basic income? How will people spend their additional free time? What about the problem of the ethics of artificial intelligence? Various discussions have been conducted at home and abroad. Panelists will draw a picture of how people will live in cities in harmony with artificial intelligence, which has become increasingly real.
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Hiroaki Kitano
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President and CEO, Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc.
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Blaise Agüera y Arcas
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Principle Scientist, Google
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14:15 - 15:15
Leading-edge Technology Session 2
Leading-edge Technology Session 2
Session2 - "New Metabolism: Krebs Cycle of Creativity"
Moderator
Joichi Ito
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Director, MIT Media Lab
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Metabolism is an architectural movement started in 1959 by a group of young Japanese architects and urban designers. After half a century, the progress of science and technology and innovations in the field of design such as computational design are beginning to give rise to a new metabolism. What is the future that will be created by cities, architecture, design, and science? Panelists will talks about their vision of 20 years into the future with Tokyo as the stage.
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Neri Oxman
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Associate Professor, Media Arts and Sciences, MIT Media Lab
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15:45 - 17:15
Art & Creativity Session 1
Art & Creativity Session 1
Session1 - "The Universe and Living in This Extreme Environment"
Moderator
Fumio Nanjo
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Director, Mori Art Museum
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The universe is gradually becoming a world within reach. The proposition of how people will live in an extreme environment that is symbolized by the universe will provide fundamental implications to the question of what will happen to our lifestyles in the future. Food, architecture, and cities that have been proposed in response to this harsh environment, as well as the image of a new culture that will emerge there, will likely give us inspirations that transcend dimensions in considering the future of cities in 20 years.
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Masayuki Sono
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Co-Founding Partner, Clouds Architecture Office
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Melodie Yashar
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Architect, Space Exploration Architecture / Assistant Professor, Pratt Institute
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Tom Sachs
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Artist
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Zack Denfeld
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Artist / Co-founder, the Center for Genomic Gastronomy / Researcher, Science Gallery, Dublin
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17:30 - 19:00
Art & Creativity Session 2
Art & Creativity Session 2
Session2 - '-The Japan Foundation Asia Center Session- "Lifestyles in Asia in the Future - Ideas from History, Culture, and the Environment –"
Moderator
Fumio Nanjo
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Director, Mori Art Museum
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Diverse styles, technologies, aesthetics that have emerged in the process of long history and modernization have been accumulated in various regions in Asia, and they are also linked to the different lifestyles in each region. Preserving the historical streetscapes, using traditional materials and technologies, and leaving their values and potentials for the future, or re-designing cities in accordance with the climates, cultures, and the environments of those regions – these have become increasingly emphasized and practiced in various regions in Asia. By having expert, architect, and artist who are currently taking unique approaches in Asia introduce a variety of case examples, we will explore lifestyles in Asia in the future.
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Ang Ming Chee
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General Manager, George Town World Heritage Incorporated
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Vo Trong Nghia
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Architect / Founding Partner, Vo Trong Nghia Architects
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Yukinori Yanagi
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Artist
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Day 2
9:15 - 13:00
Future Tokyo Session
9:15 - 13:00
Future Tokyo Session
TOKYO2035
Moderator
Heizo Takenaka
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Professor, Toyo University / Professor Emeritus, Keio University / Chairman, Institute for Urban Strategies, The Mori Memorial Foundation /Director, Academyhills
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Theme
What will lifestyles in Tokyo be like in the future after overcoming global issues and Tokyo’s own issues while actively incorporating progress in science and technology and changes in values? In this session, while conducting 4 breakout sessions involving participants on the following topics --- Future Living, Future Work, Future Mobility, and Future Entertainment --- we will discuss the lifestyles of people living in Tokyo in 20 years into the future (2035). After the wrap-up, the Closing Session of the Innovative City Forum 2016 will follow soon.
Future Living
「With whom, where, and how will people live?」
Future Work
「Why, where and how will people work?」
Future Mobility
「Why and how will people move around?」
Future Entertainment
「Why, where and how will people be entertained?」
Hiroo Ichikawa
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Professor and Dean, Professional Graduate School of Governance Studies, Meiji University / Executive Director, The Mori Memorial Foundation
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Fumio Nanjo
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Director, Mori Art Museum
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Joichi Ito
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Director, MIT Media Lab
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Future Living
「With whom, where, and how will people live?」
-Designing a technology-imbued home representing a diversity of values-
20 years from now, how will the physical necessities of life change for Tokyo residents? Through such advances as IoT and robotics, to what degree will people be liberated from housework? Furthermore, with improvements in medical technology and increasing lifespans, how will people fill their time? To what extent could robots be accepted as members of a family unit? If technology makes these situations a reality, what would people wish for and actually do within the home? Participants in this session will imagine the future of living, and together shape their desired style of future residence.
Facilitator
Naoki Adachi
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Founder and CEO, Response Ability, Inc.
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Resource Person
Hiroaki Katayama
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President & CEO, Stratasys Japan
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Keisuke Ichihara
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Executive Officer, Rakuten, Inc.
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Yukihiro Maru
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President and CEO, Leave a Nest Co., Ltd.
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Future Work
「Why, where and how will people work?」
-Designing a working style interconnected with technology-
With 50% of the domestic workforce projected to be supplanted by artificial intelligence and robotics within the next 10 to 20 years, will your job still exist in Tokyo 20 years from now, or will it be dispossessed through the promise of AI? Likewise, will your work and interactions with colleagues still take place within the office, or, will you be working remotely from non-traditional locations? Through interactive dialogues, participants in this session will hypothesize the future of work and clarify the style of employment they hope to experience.
Facilitator
Izumi Okoshi
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Head, Dentsu Innovation Institute
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Resource Person
Koichiro Yoshida
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CEO / Founder, CrowdWorks Inc.
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Akiyuki Minami
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CEO/Co-Founder, coconala Inc.
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Tatsuyuki Negoro
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Professor, Waseda Business School / Director, Research Institute of Information Technology and Management, Waseda University
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Future Mobility
「Why and how will people move around?」
-Designing forms and ideals of mobility transformed by technology-
Will the introduction of autonomous vehicles and progress in the sharing economy transform the lifestyles of residents in the city center? Will autonomous vehicles free people from commuting by crowded, shaking trains? If personal mobility has the potential to cause major changes to urban space, what kind of altered city landscape would you hope to see? For what purposes and by what means will people travel? Participants in this session will discuss the future of mobility in in the city and reimagine the resulting impacts on the urban form.
Facilitator
Koji Koizumi
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Founder & CEO, R.GENE Inc. / Chief Editor, IoT NEWS
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Tsuguo Nobe
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Chief Advanced Service Architect and Director, Intel Corp / Visiting Associate Professor, Nagoya University
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Genki Kanaya
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President and CEO, akippa Inc.
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Hisashi Taniguchi
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President & CEO, ZMP Inc.
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Future Entertainment
「Why, where and how will people be entertained?」
-Designing outdoor spaces reformed through technology and biodiversity-
Even though it has become possible to carry out most activities within the home through progress in digitalization, what kind of entertainment spaces could be produced in order to draw people out into the city for leisure? How can we use technology and remodelled urban space to make both the ordinary as well as the extraordinary aspects of Tokyo more fun? Participants will explore how entertainment spaces in Tokyo could be created and used to entice people to venture outside their homes.
Facilitator
Hiroo Ichikawa
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Professor and Dean, Professional Graduate School of Governance Studies, Meiji University / Executive Director, The Mori Memorial Foundation
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Resource Person
Hiroaki Kitano
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President and CEO, Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc.
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Michitaka Hirose
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Professor, the University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology
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Tatsuro Sasaki
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President, Sasaki Architects and Associates
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Hideki Kasai
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Manager, PPP Business Department, Technological Business Development Division, Obayashi Corporation
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15:00 - 17:00
Special Session
Special Session
"Second Brain for the Smart City 2: Holobiont Urbanism"
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During ICF 2015, Kevin presented the relationship between microorganisms and human beings within cities. He will introduce his latest research that expands the concept which states that "the biological unit "holobiont" in which the host and numerous microorganisms coexist is the true individual organism" into architecture and cities.
He will be interacting with his research inspiration source, Nobuyuki Ishikawa, the author of the manga "Moyasimon" to unfold the relationship of microorganisms, human and cities.
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Kevin Slavin
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Assistant Professor, Media Arts and Sciences, MIT Media Lab
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Speaker
Masayuki Ishikawa
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Japanese Manga Artist
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Speaker
Larry Weiss
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Chief Medical Officer, AOBiome LLC
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