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 View Larger Image and Additional Photos of Masaki IwabuchiAbout Masaki Iwabuchi : According to his past +10yrs of academic & business leadership experience with emerging design methodologies and collaboration with business, technology, art, and anthropology, he has been redefining the word “DESIGN” as a culture that every business person should have in the 21st Century, and defined five core modes of thinking: Design Thinking, Systems Thinking,
Critical Thinking, Visionary Thinking, and Mediative Thinking.
Using these mindsets, he is now delivering a new design education for all business people and executives. Also, in the practical field, he is leading product & service design and delivering innovation & transformation in mainly Manufacturing, Finance, and Public sectors.
His expertise is shaping a creative team itself from the ground up and helps organizations grow their creative practice while aligning cross-functional talent, managing the productivity of initiatives & delivering greater conversion and lifetime value. Masaki is a Design director, researcher, and educator based in NYC. His mission is blurring existing borders and cultivating pluriversal wholeness to overcome wicked problems in individual, organizational, social, and political levels beyond the Cartesian belief system. He uses design as a critical tool for mediating different entities and creating alternative products, services, organizations, and visions towards humans. ORGANIZATION: Parsons New School of Design EDUCATION: 2020, Design and Technology, MFA, Parsons School of Design, NEW YORK/USA. 2009, Interdisciplinary Information Studies, MA, The University of Tokyo, TOKYO/JAPAN. 2007, Information and Communication Engineering, BE, The University of Tokyo, TOKYO/JAPAN. EXPERIENCE: 2020-, Adjunct Faculty, Parsons School of Design, New York/USA. 2020-, Service Designer, Teknikio, Brooklyn/USA. 2020-, Design Educator, Artelligence, Tokyo/Japan. 2018-, Chief Design Officer, Artrigger, Tokyo/Japan. 2009-2018, Product Design Lead, IBM, Tokyo/Japan. PRIVATE EXHIBITIONS: 2017, "The Body", Recto Verso Gallery, TOKYO/JAPAN. MIXED EXHIBITIONS: 2017, "NEW JAPAN PHOTO Exhibition", IMA gallery, in the booth of Einstein Studio, TOKYO/JAPAN. 2016, "NEW CITY ART FAIR", hpgrp gallery, in the booth of Einstein Studio, NEW YORK/USA. EVENTS: 2019, "NYC Media Lab'19 Demo Expo", NYC Media Lab, NEW YORK/USA. AWARDS: 2012, Selected for IBM Japan Technology Leading talents, IBM, TOKYO/JAPAN. 2009, Young Researcher Award, Human Interface Society, TOKYO/JAPAN. 2008, Good Design Award, Japan Institute of Design Promotion, TOKYO/JAPAN PRESS APPEARANCES: 2019, "Breathing Chair", Workship Magazine, https://goworkship.com/magazine/iwabuchi-speculati ve-design/, Jan 2019, NEW YORK/USA. ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS: 2008, "LimpiDual touch: interactive limpid display with dual-sided touch sensing", ACM SIGGRAPH 2008 posters, LOS ANGELS/USA. 2008, "Real life is an odyssey: proposal for a videogame linked to reality", Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology, YOKOHAMA/JAPAN. BOOKS: 2019, "What is Critical Design?", BNN, TOKYO/JAPAN, ISBN978-4802511582. ACCOLADES: 2019, Design Researcher in Residence, Kyoto Institute of Technology, KYOTO/JAPAN. 2018, President's Scholarship, Parsons School of Design, NEW YORK/USA. LANGUAGE SKILLS: Japanese (Native) English (Advanced) COMPUTER LITERACY: Adobe CS, Expert. Figma, Expert. Javascript, Advanced. COURSES, SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPS:: 2019, "Magazine from the Future", Kyoto Institute of Technology, KYOTO/JAPAN. SYMPOSIUMS AND ACADEMIC CONFERENCES:: 2020, "PIVOT CONFERENCE 2020", Design Research Society, NEW ORLEANS/USA. 2019, "Mini-Symposium at KYOTO Design Lab", Kyoto Institute of Technology, KYOTO/JAPAN. 2008, "SIGGRAPH2008", ACM, LOS ANGELS/USA. MEMBERSHIPS & ASSOCIATIONS: 2019, Speculative Futures Initiative, USA. 2019, Design Research Society, LONDON/UK. 2017, Scrum Alliance, USA. HOBBIES: Photo Shooting, Yoga WEB SITE: https://masaki.vision/ PORTFOLIO URL: https://masaki.vision/ REGISTRATION DATE: 2020-04-13 17:41:26 COUNTRY/REGION: United States of America ACCOUNT TYPE: Academic |
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