ISDC2024

Daisuke Inoue is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Design of Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan. He gained his PhD at the Graduate School of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan in 2015 for dynamic pattern formation of cytoskeletons. In the same year, he moved to the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), Grenoble, and Université Paris Diderot, Paris (2016), France to study spatial crosstalk of cytoskeletons in their self-organization. In 2018, he worked at the Biodesign Institute of Arizona State University, Tempe, USA to develop a new programmable design method for cytoskeletons using DNA nanotechnology. In 2019, he started his laboratory at the Faculty of Design of Kyushu University to exploit biological design based on self-organization and bio-art inspired by cytoskeletons. Currently, he is also challenging to develop digital visualization methods of cell architecture and its components such as DNA and proteins using virtual reality and 3D modelling techniques.

Pascal Le Masson is Professor at Mines Paris– PSL Research University, Chair of Bauhaus for Transitions. He is a member of the National Academy of Technology of France. With his colleagues of the Bauhaus for Transitions, a research and education chair supported by more than twenty industrial partners, he works on generative processes, design-oriented management and the design for transitions. He co-chairs (with Eswaran Subrahmanian, Carnegie Mellon Univ.) the “Design Theory” Special Interest group of the Design Society. He has published, with Benoit Weil and Armand Hatchuel, “Strategic Management of Innovation and Design” (Cambridge University Press, 2010) and “design theory” (Springer, 2017) and several papers in international top-level journals. He is area-editor in design theory for Research in Engineering Design and editor of the European Management Review.

Melanie Sarantou is a Professor of Social Design at the Faculty of Design, Kyushu University. Her creative research draws on social design and arts-based research focusing on marginalised contexts. Her intense involvement in Namibian craft and design development spanned over two decades. Over the past decade, her research has investigated how creativity, arts and narrative practices impact marginalised communities in various global settings, including Namibia, Finland, and Australia. As a European Commission Research Fellow (2020 – 2023), she explored the role of arts in societies on the margins of Europe in the Horizon 2020-funded project titled ‘Action on the Margin: Arts as Social Sculpture’ (AMASS). Her research and art explore concepts of marginality, which in this project is defined by conditions of isolation and migration, emphasised by geographies in the Arctic and far South. Sarantou’s PhD in Visual Arts at the University of South Australia mapped Namibian craft and design worlds through a postcolonial lens.

Yuki Motomura is an Assistant Professor at the Kyushu University, Faculty of Design, Department of Human Life Design. His research interests lie in the fields of neuroscience, psychophysiology, physiological anthropology, and Kansei (affective) science, with a focus on exploring the foundations of human cognitive and emotional functions that underpin societal constructs. He works on the relationships between sleep, emotion, empathy, consciousness and creativity. He is a director or council member of academic societies such as the Japanese Society of Physiological Anthropology and the Japanese Society of Sleep Research, and serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Physiological Anthropology and Scientific Reports.

He received a Doctorate in Philosophy from the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, in 2019, and he has acted as an Assistant Professor at Tokyo Institute of Technology, reorganized to Institute of Science Tokyo in 2024, since 2019.
His research interest is to augment design creativity through technology. The current research topics include supporting co-design in social VR with digital twins, developing a real-time monitoring system of team dynamics, and investigating designers’ sensemaking approach, especially when quantitative and qualitative data are integrated for empathic understanding of users. His research methods are both lab-based experiments and research through design approaches. He organizes a Living lab called Future Living Lab to materialize desired futures by increasing a sense of ownership of social problems through back-casting and co-design approaches.

Mayu Akaki received her Ph.D. degree in system design and management from Keio University in 2023. She has been teaching Design Thinking, System Thinking, and entrepreneurship classes at Shunan University since 2022. She is the leader of the Innovation Center enhancing industry-academia collaboration. She founded and has been one of the directors of Tsukuru to Ugoku Design Co., Ltd. since 2018 based on more than ten years of experience as a professional in the Human Resource management and development field.
Her research interests are in the behavior of individuals and team contextual factors that lead to team creativity. She especially focuses on feedback, conflict, self-acceptance, and idea acceptance to encourage team creativity. She also implements workshops and development programs in companies, local government, etc. based on her research.

A designer at heart and a researcher by spirit, Dr. Shakuntala Acharya is presently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Design at IIT Guwahati. She has a Bachelor’s Degree in Architecture (B.Arch) from the RV School of Architecture, Bangalore, followed by a year at the Centre for Environment and Planning (CEPT), Ahmedabad, prior to pursuing PhD from Centre for Product Design and Manufacturing,IISc, Bengaluru. Her research interests lie in the areas of Design for education and pedagogy; Conceptualisation and Design methodology, and Sustainable smart cities; all of which are strongly rooted in exploring and championing varied stakeholder dynamics through co-creation.

Deny Willy JUNAIDY is an executive secretary for community services at the Institute for Research and Community Services and a seninor lecturer in the Research Group of Human-Interior Space at the Faculty of Art and Design, Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB). Previously, he worked as a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Architecture and Ekistics at Universiti Malaysia Kelantan. He holds a Ph.D. from the School of Knowledge Science at Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST). He also earned an M.Sc. in Architecture and a B.Des. in Interior Design in 2002 and 1999, respectively, from ITB. His research interests focus on the knowledge creation process from the perspective of design cognition. He has provided his professional services as a design R&D adviser for the national furniture and crafts development of both the Indonesian and Malaysian governments.

Dr. Milene Gonçalves is an Associate Professor on Design Creativity, at the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, TU Delft, The Netherlands. She holds a MSc degree on Product Design from FAUL (Lisbon, Portugal) and a PhD on Design Creativity from TU Delft, on the inspiration process of designers and its influence on design creativity and innovation. For more than 10 years, Milene has been investigating creativity, creative confidence, design processes, co-creation, visual thinking and other design representations and how they support the development of creative ideas. Milene is the director of the Delft Design Lab Connected Creativity, a platform where research, education and industry come together to explore the transdisciplinary value that creativity can bring to tackle complex issues.

She has a PhD in Design from Kyushu University, Japan, specializing in universal design and humanized design. She is currently a Associate Professor at the Faculty of Design of Kyushu University, directed the Asia Design Symposium participate by the major design universities of China, Korea, Singapore, etc, to explore new possibilities for design research and education in Asia for the future.
After obtaining the doctorate, she worked in a Japanese design company for 8 years, focusing on universal design. She was involved in designing with universal design as a focus for all the stores in the Bank of Fukuoka, the Hakata Station of the West Japan Railway and its logo, and the space design of the Children's Hospital of Fukuoka, Japan. Her design works have been awarded both at home and abroad. She is also a member of International Association of Universal Design, NPO Fukuoka Design League, Design Research Association, Japan Sign Design Association, Society for Cocreationology. She wants to look into combining the practice and education of universal design and humanized design with research to contribute to society more deeply.