Mnm2013 memberlist

15-17. 11. 2013 + future urban intensities @Keio University Hiyoshi & Yagami Campus

MEMBER LIST

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MnʼM member list Darko Radović

Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at Keio University, heads the Mn’M Project. He is a co-director of International Keio Institute for Architecture and Urbanism – IKI and visiting Professor at the United Nations University, IAS in Yokohama. Darko’s work focuses at the nexus between environmental and cultural sustainability. His books include Green City (2005, Routledge/UNSW Press; with Low, Gleeson, Green); Urbophilia (2007 University of Belgrade Public Art Public Space publishers), Cross-Cultural Urban Design (2007, Routledge, with Bull, Boontharm, Parin, Tapie), Another Tokyo (2008, University of Tokyo and ichii Shobou), eco-urbanity (2009, Routledge), The Split Case: Density, Intensity, Resilience (2012, with Boontharm, Kuma and Grgić; flick Studio), and small Tokyo (2012, with Boontharm; flick Studio).

Kazuyo Sejima

Architect. Born in Japan’s prefecture of Ibaraki, she received a degree in architecture at the Japan Women's University in 1981. Upon completion of her studies she began working in the office of architect Toyo Ito. In 1987 she opened her own studio in Tokyo and then in 1995, together with Ryue Nishizawa, she founded SANAA. SANAA’s main works include The 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa, The New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, and The Rolex Learning Center, EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne - Lausanne, Switzerland, 2009)and the Louvre Lens, France. Kazuyo Seijima was awarded the Pritzker Prize in 2010.

Hiroto Kobayashi

Associate Professor of Keio University SFC, co-director of I IKI, Visiting Associate Professor of MIT, Principal of Kobayashi Maki Design Workshop (KMDW), and Representative of Skidmore Owings and Merrill LLP (SOM). He studied architecture and urban design at Kyoto University and the Harvard GSD. He has worked with Nikken Sekkei and Norman Foster and Partners as an architect. He completed his doctoral dissertation on the traditional community form, 'Cho', and received a Doctor of Design degree from the GSD, where he served as visiting associate through 2000-2003. He is the principal of the Tokyo-based architectural design office KMDW in a partnership with Naomi Maki. He also represents the American architectural firm, Skidmore Owings and Merrill LLP, in Japan.

Akiyoshi Inasaka

Assistant Professor at Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, Tokyo University of Science, specialized in urban spatial analysis and visualization. Received Bachelor of Engineering at Tokai University(architecture) in 2002, Master of Media and Governance from Keio University SFC(architecture and urban design) in 2005, Doctor of .Engineering degree from the University of Tokyo (Urban Engineering) in 2010. HIs recent interests are in analyzing and visualizing spatio-temporal phenomena in urban space.

Aleksander Ivanćić

Mechanical Engineer, PhD in Thermal Science, an Associated Professor at Barcelona Institute of Architecture. The main area of his professional interest is positioned within infrastructure planning, with a particular focus on energy systems. He has held several senior positions: Chief Technical Officer of Barcelona Strategic Urban Systems (2009-11), Head of Department in Barcelona Regional - Metropolitan Agency of Urban Development and Infrastructures (1999-2008), Technical Director of the Barcelona Energy Agency (2002-03). he has published more than fifty scientific and technical papers in journals and books, relating to urban planning, urban infrastructures, renewable energies, renewable integration in urban space, energy planning, heat and mass transfer and and computational fluid dynamics.

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Apiradee Kasemsook

Assistant professor at Silpakorn University, visiting lecturers at Chulalongkorn University, King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi, and many architectural institutions in Thailand and abroad. Api received her doctorate in Architecture from the Bartlett, UCL, and specialises in spatial morphology, particularly Space Syntax. Her main research interest is the spatial network and the way in which the network shapes or has been shaped by the configuration of buildings relating to the socio-economic issue. Collaborated with Nuttinee Karnchanaporn for a number of projects, academically and professionally.

They published a paper together, titled, ‘World-class living’ (2008, in World Cities, eds. by Jenck et al.) They were co-curators for Thailand Pavilion, for the 12th International Architecture Exhibition, Venice Biennale, 2010.

Ben Highmore

He is Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Sussex. His research is broadly concerned with the culture of everyday life: investigating what is extraordinary in ordinary life and in looking at the ordinariness of what might be thought of as extra-ordinary or exotic or esoteric or elite. His particular interests at the moment congregate around cultural feelings, domestic life, and post-war British art, craft and architecture. His most recent published book is Ordinary Lives: Studies in the Everyday (2011). He is publishing The Great Indoors: At Home in the Modern British House in January 2014.

Christian Dimmer

He is assistant professor for urban design at the University of Tokyo, from where he also earned his PhD on the intellectual history of public space in modern Japan. Christian served as JSPS post-doctoral fellow at the Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies of the University of Tokyo. As adjunct professor he also teaches urban studies at Waseda University. He is partner of the architectural practice Frontoffice Tokyo and co-founder of the civil society initiatives Architecture for Humanity Tokyo as well as Tohoku Planning Forum.

David Sim

He practices as an architect and urbanist throughout the World. He has also taught at architecture and design schools the world over, while his work at Lund University expanding and developing teaching methods has led to a number of pedagogical awards and distinctions. While at Lund, he researched and developed patterns for greater density and diversity in urban areas. This research has been successfully applied in urban design projects and competitions. His main area of work at Gehl Architects is master-planning and urban design, collaborating with other professionals in the planning and building process, applying Jan Gehl’s theories to large-scale projects.

Davisi Boontharm

She is Architect and Urbanist, she has lived and worked in Paris, Bangkok, Tokyo, Singapore and Melbourne. She is currently Senior Lecturer at School of Architecture and Built Environment Deakin University, Australia and Project Associate Professor at Keio University, Japan. Her research interests include culturally sustainable architecture and urbanism, space of consumption and creative milieu in Asian Cities (Tokyo, Bangkok, Singapore), fashion and place, Southeast Asian vernacular urban form (shophouse). Her recent research books include Tokyo-Bangkok-Singapore : Intensities, Reuse and Creative Milieu (IKI and Flick Studio), Future Asian Space : Projecting the Urban Space of New East Asia (NUS Press, with Hee and Viray, 2012), small Tokyo (IKI and Flick Studio with Radović, 2012). Her interest in cities also found its expression in creative work. She has exhibited drawings and paintings in Japan and Croatia.

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Heide Imai

Heide Imai is Asssistant Professor at the Department of Global Interdisciplinary Studies, GIS, Hosei University and Research Associate and Visiting Lecturer at Keio University. Heide holds a PhD from Manchester Metropolitan University and was researcher at Prof. Monnai’s Lab, Kyoto University (2006) and at Prof. Jinnai’s Lab at Hosei University (2007-20012). Current Publications include Vanishing Tokyo (2014, forthcoming) and Alleyways in a Global Perspective (forthcoming). As a licensed Architect, she has practiced in offices in Germany, the Netherlands and the UK. Heide is teaching courses on critical urbanism, urban theory etc. at universities in Germany, UK and other parts of Asia as part of her regular field- and research trips.

Hendrik Tieben

Architect, urban designer, and an Assistant Professor at the School of Architecture of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). He received his architectural education in Germany, Italy and Switzerland and holds a doctoral degree from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich). Before arriving in Hong Kong, Hendrik Tieben has taught at ETH Zurich, HTW Chur, and CIA (Chur). At CUHK, he teaches urban design and theory and coordinates the Master Thesis and the Concentration Area Urban Design.

Heng Chye Kiang

Professor and Dean of the School of Design and Environment, National University of Singapore. Teaches architecture and urban design and has lectured widely in Europe and Asia. He serves as member of several editorial boards of international journals and as jury member of many international design competitions in Asia. He is also Board member of the Jurong Town Corporation and Centre for Liveable Cities, Singapore. His research covers the urban design and history of Chinese cities. He consults internationally and is the conceptual designer of several international urban design/ planning competition winning entries in China. He publishes widely on urban history and design. His books include Cities of Aristocrats and Bureaucrats (1999) and A Digital Reconstruction of Tang Chang’an (2006) and On Asian Streets and Public Space (2010).

Hidetaka Hontani

Professor at Department of Computer Science, Nagoya Institute of Technology. His research interests include computer vision, pattern recognition, medical image analysis, and shape representation. He received doctoral degree in Engineering from the University of Tokyo in 2000. He was a researcher at Research and Development Center of Toshiba Corporation from 1993 to 1996. From 1996 to 2000, he was an associate professor at the department of mathematical engineering and information physics, faculty of engineering of the university of Tokyo. From 2000 to 2004, he was an associated professor at Yamagata University. Since 2004, he has been in Nagoya Institute of Technology. During the period, he was a guest researcher in UCLA in 2010.

Hiromoto Oka

Journalist, Documentary film maker, Director of Shonan Yueiza (Organizer of Trailer Film Festival in Kamakura, Japan). He was graduate from SFC, Keio University, in 1999. After working for 13 years as staff writer and editor in THE TOKYO SHIMBUN (newspaper company in Tokyo), he has been independent since 2011. He published the book 'Genuine Cinema Education' in 2007. He produces several documentary films about '3.11' and directs films for the exhibitions in The Italian Cultural Center of Tokyo or in Tokyo Designer's Week. Now he is shooting a documentary film about a Japanese architect, Kengo Kuma.

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Ilze Paklone

She is an architect holding Professional Diploma and Master Degree in Arch. from the Riga Technical University (Latvia). She has worked in architecture offices in Riga, most notably NRJA and extended her professional experience internationally as junior architect at Wiel Arets Architects in The Netherlands with the Leonardo da Vinci Lifelong Learning Programme scholarship. Currently she is a Ph.D. student in Prof. Yukio Nishimura Urban Design and Conservation Laboratory at the University of Tokyo. Her current research is focused on mapping visually relationship between complex urban patterns and urban planning legal requirements. She is a contributor based in Japan for Domus magazine (Italy).

Joaquim Silvestre

Architect, Bachelor in Philosophy, he is preparing a PhD on design methodologies with algorithmic architecture. He cames from French laboratory MAP-maacc to study at Keio university in the Ikeda Lab. He studied architecture at ESA École Spéciale d’Architecture and ENSAPLV École National Supérieur d’Architecture Paris La Villette. Philosophy have been studied at la Sorbonne. He cames several times in Japan for research, study, symposium, workshop or intership. Indeed the MAP-maacc buries the legacy of the Architecturology. A theory of architectural conception which is about giving measurement to things. So measure non measurable extend designer's ability.

Jorge Almazán

Graduated from the Madrid School of Architecture in 2003 (Polytechnics University of Madrid). In 2000-2001 he studied at the Technische Universität Darmstadt (Germany). He completed his Doctoral Degree at the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2007. Professional experience in Tokyo includes collaborations with SANAA (Sejima and Nishizawa Associates) and Atelier Bow-Wow. In 2008 he held the position of Invited Professor at the University of Seoul and since April 2009 he teaches and does research at Keio University (Tokyo). His research laboratory aims at integrating environmental and behavioral knowledge into architectural design theory, with a special.

Kengo Kuma

Kengo Kuma was born in 1954. He completed his master’s degree at the University of Tokyo in 1979. After studying at Columbia University as Visiting Scholar, he established Kengo Kuma & Associates 1990. In 2009, he was installed as Professor at the Graduate School of Architecture, University of Tokyo. Among Kuma’s major works are Water/Glass (1995, received AIA Benedictus Award), Stage in Forest, Toyoma Center for Performance Arts (received 1997 Architectural Institute of Japan Annual Award). Recent works include Kabukiza (2013), Besancon Arts and Culture Center and FRAC Marseilles (France). Kuma has also written numerous books, including Anti-Object, translated into English, and most of his latest titles – A Natural Architecture, A Small Architecture - have been published Chinese and Korean and gaining wide readership from around the world.

Lorenzo Tripodi

Architect, PhD in Urban, Regional and Environmental Design, works as an independent researcher in urban and media studies and as filmmaker. His main topics are conflicts and transformation of public space, image production processes in the urban economy, sustainable urban development, new media and participatory practices for planning. Develops a parallel career with Ogino:knauss, art collective dealing with experimental audiovisual research, authoring under this signature films, installations and performances with a strong focus on urban topics. His current main project is a multi-format documentary project about modernist ideology, urban peripheries and every-day practices.

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Marco Imperadori

University professor, researcher and designer, he, focuses his interests in high energy-efficient buildings, Structure/Envelope Building Systems and in general Sustainability. He is Msc and PhD in Building Engineer but he likes to be considered as an Architect, as his background results of a mixture of both these complementary aspects of building design. He has been invited as Lecturer and Visiting Professor in many Univeristies and Institutions worldwide. Author of scientific publications and essays, his work has been published in many books and magazines. Imperadori is the principal, with Valentina Gallotti, of Atelier 2, design studio placed in Milan. He is currently Rector’s Delegate for the Far East of Politecnico di Milano.

Masa Inakage

He is the founding Dean and Professor at Keio University Graduate School of Media Design. He pursues expressive excellence for art and design, for developing innovative product and service, and for designing a creative society for the better future. He leads and advises various projects using his expertise in entertainment design, story thinking, and user experience design. Projects are diverse, ranging from academic exploration of innovative concepts, for-profit innovative products and services, to non-profit social change. He sits on advisory board and executive board of numerous corporations for corporate innovation strategy, as well as has served as members of government committees. Prof. Inakage also is a member of World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council.

Milica Muminović

She is an architect and Visiting Junior Research Fellow at the Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University, Japan. She holds PhD from Keio University. She has held the position of teaching assistant at Faculty of Architecture, University of Novi Pazar, Serbia, of research assistant at Global COE Program and of teaching assistant at Keio University in Japan.

Her present research extends the professional experience through studies conducted in Japan about identity, places, spaces in between architecture and urban design, public and private, with emphasis on residential architecture in Tokyo.

Nuttinee Karnchanaporn

Lecturer in Interior Architecture Program at School of Architecture and Design, King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi, Thailand.

Trained as an interior architect, she is working in various fields: teaching, research, interior architectural design, and writing on design related issues.

She obtained her PhD in History and Theory of Architecture from Architectural Association. In recent years, Nuttinee has conducted researches that take interests in the way domestic life is engaged or ignored through the space of home in Bangkok. With the shared interests on ‘urban domesticity,’ she collaborates with Apiradee Kasemsook on the MnM research project.

Current publications include “Rethinking Bangkok Domesticity: A Dialogue between film and critical design thinking” (2012), “How small is too small?

Bangkok (frugal) living” (2011).

Oriol Clos

Architect, urban planner and designer. Served as Chief Architect of the City Council of Barcelona (2006-2011), in the City Council of Barcelona as Director of Urbanism of the 22@bcn company (2000-2003) and as Director of Plans and Projects (2004-2005). Graduated from the School of Architecture of Barcelona in 1980. Associate Professor of Urban Project at the same School from 1990 to 2002. From 1983 to 2000 he led his private practice.

Works include the enlargement of Parliament in Madrid, facilities and public spaces for the Barcelona 92 Olympic Games, the Salvador Dalí Museum Houses in Púbol and Cadaqués and the Ville-Port sector in Saint-Nazaire, France (with Manuel de Solà-Morales). “Currently he is the General Director of the Agence d’Urbanisme de Lille, France”

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Pega Sanoamuang

She is a Ph.D. candidate in Urban Design at Keio University. She is originally from Bangkok, Thailand. Her background was an architect and also worked for the City Planning Department of the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration office (BMA). At present, she is a lecturer at the faculty of architecture, Kasetsart University in Bangkok. Her research is focusing on the urban intensity of railway station and adjoining neighborhood of Tokyo. She is also interested in the urban morphology due to the impact of the introduction of transportation technology, which is now a very important issue for transportation network development in Thailand.

Rafael A. Balboa

He is a Mexico born architect and Ph.D. candidate in Prof. Kengo Kuma Laboratory at the University of Tokyo. His current research is focused in studying impromptu extensions and aggregations as prosthetic elements in the urban fabric. He was head of Project Design & Management at Mexico City based firm TALLER 13 Arquitectos S.C. before receiving his Master Degree in Arch. from Prof. Manabu Chiba Laboratory at the University of Tokyo. His work, articles and collaborations have been published at International magazines such as Shinkenchiku, Kindai Kenchiku and Pen in Japan and The Phaidon Atlas of Contemporary World Architecture. He is a member of The Japanese Institute of Architects and contributor based in Japan for Domus magazine (Italy).

Ryoko Iwase

Japanse Architect at RYOKOIWASE, Tokyo/Resarch Assistant at Keio University (since 2012). She has practiced at KENGO KUMA and Associates, working on International projects, after completion of a Masters in Urban and Environmental Engineering at Graduate School of KYOTO UNIVERSITY in 2010, and Graduating in 2007. During her studies she had a year out at EM2N Architekten, Zurich, Switzerland. She has started her own office ‘RYOKOIWASE’ and she won two competitions recently: 1st prize at the water front competition along Kizu river by Osaka Prefectural Government (2013) and 1 st prize at ‘U30 Glass Architecture competition’ (2013). She got selected as one of the 5 architects for ‘U30 Architectects exhibition’ of this year.

Satoshi Honda

Profesor at Department of Applied Phisycs and Physico-Informatics, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University. He received doctoral degree in Engineering from the University of Tokyo in 1985. He was a Research Associate at Department of Mathematical Sciences and Instrumentation Physics, University of Tokyo from 1975 to 1986. From 1986 to 1990, he was an Associate Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Kumamoto University. From 1990 to 1998, he was an Associate Professor at Department of Measurement Physics, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University. During these period in 1992, he was a Guest Researcher at Institut fuer Theoretische Elektrotechnik, RWTH Aachen. Since 1998 he has been a Professor at Keio University.

Satoshi Sano

Architect. Born in 1980. In 2002 he graduated from the Department of Architecture of Waseda University (Tokyo). In 2004 he went to France as a scholarship student of Fondazione Renzo Piano in 2004, and worked at Penzo Piano Building Workshop (Paris) as a collaborator. In 2006 he completed the master course, department of architecture, graduate school of engineering, Waseda University. In 2006-2009 he worked at Kengo Kuma & Associates (Tokyo). In 2009 he established Eureka architectural design and engineering office in Tokyo. Currently he works mainly on residential buildings but also restoration/alteration of Japanese traditional architecture, Wooden modernism houses in Japan.

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Seiichiro Katsura

He received the B.E. degree in system design engineering and the M.E. and Ph.D. degrees in integrated design engineering from Keio University, in 2001, 2002 and 2004, respectively. From 2003 to 2005, he was a Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. From 2005 to 2008, he was with Nagaoka University of Technology, Niigata. Since 2008, he has been with Keio University. His research interests include real-world haptics, human support space, systems energy conversion, electromechanical integration systems. He is a Senior Member of IEEJ, Member of the IEEE, Society of Instrumentation and Control Engineers.

Sidh Sintusingha

Dr Sidh Sintusingha is Coordinator, Landscape Architecture Major, Bachelor of Environments at the University of Melbourne. Prior to completing his PhD degree at the University of Melbourne and joining academia, he practiced as an architect and landscape architect in Thailand and Australia. His research focuses on addressing socio-cultural, environmental and scalar problems relating to urban sprawl and the speculation of retroďŹ ts towards urban sustainability in Southeast Asian cities. His research also addresses the evolving formal cultural landscape expressions, both planned/designed and unplanned/undesigned, in response to the broader phenomenon of urban sprawl. He has widely presented and published in these areas both locally and internationally in chapters in research books and refereed journals.

Soya Oikawa

Culture promotion person. Born in 1978 at Miyagi. Through the London study abroad, been working for URBAN RESEARCH Co.,Ltd. as a promotion person for 10 years. Promoting and planning UR company and some brands with culture side such as this Concept book project, some workshop, design exhibition, collaboration work‌etc.

Takahiro Yakoh

Associate Professor of Information Technology, especially for Real-Time Processing, Networking, and Human Interface at Keio University. He received his doctor degree of engineering from the Department of Computer Science, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Keio University. He has taught at University of Tokyo, and Technical University of Vienna during the current position. His research papers are included in chapters of three books, Emulating the Mind (2008, Springer-Verlag), Remote and Telerobotics (2010, InTech), and Human-Computer Systems Interactions Backgrounds and Applications 2 (2011, Springer-Verlag). Also his papers are included in Transactions of IEEE and some domestic journals in Japan.

Takashi Maeno

He received his B. S. and M. S. degrees in mechanical engineering from the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan, in 1984 and 1986, respectively.

From 1986 to 1995, he worked for Canon, Inc., in Tokyo, Japan. He received his Ph. D. degree in mechanical engineering from the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan, in 1993. From 1995 to 2008, he was with the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Keio University, Yokohama, Japan. Since 2008, he has been with the graduate school of System Design and Management, Keio University as a Professor.

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Takumi Saikawa

Architect (project manager in Kengo Kuma and Associates). He graduated from Shibaura Institute of Technology in 1997 and worked in Massimiliano Fuksas Architect (Italy) in 1998-2001. He finished his master degree of architecture at Keio University in 2004. He has been working in Kengo Kuma and Associates from 2004. His main projects are "Tee Haus"(Germany, 2007), "Yien East"(Japan, 2007), Nezu Museum"(Tokyo, 2009) and "Memu Meadows"( Hokkaido , 2011), etc.

Tamao Hashimoto

He completed his BFA degree at Tokyo University of the Arts. After he worked as a freelance designer for several years in Japan, he entered the Architectural Association and received the AA Intermediate and AA Diploma. His drawings were featured in the publication Scales and/of Engagement. Since 2010, he has been teaching at Tokyo University of the Arts, while engaging in a series of international workshops with The Queensland University, Vienna Art Academy, Hong Kong Chinese University, the Architectural Association, and exhibitions. He is currently conducting a study on notation of the city. They are currently involved in various scales and numbers of projects.

Tetsuo Kondo

Architect. Born in 1975 at Ehime. Graduated from Nagoya Institute of Technology in 1999. Worked at Kazuyo Sejima and Associates, SANAA from 1999 to 2006 and established Tetsuo Kondo Architects in 2006. He is currently adjunct lecturer at Japan Wowen’s University and Hosei University. Main projects include House with Gardens (Private house), Cloudscapes at 12th international architecture exhibition, la Biennale di Venezia, A Path in the Forest at European Capital of Culture 2011, Urban Installations Festival LIFT11.

Tomoyuki Furutani

He is Associate Professor at Faculty of Policy Management, Keio University.

He works on spatial statistics, Bayesian statistics, spatial epidemiology, tourism and transportation planning. He is currently an associate Professor of Keio University at Shonan Fujisawa Campus. Obtained Dr. Eng. at the University of Tokyo in 2001, and he lectured two years at UT as a research associate. With backgrounds in civil engineering and applied statistics, his current works are on monitoring, visualization and spatial analysis of radiation-related homeland security in Japan after the Great East Japan Earthquake.

Toshiki Meijo

Architect (project manager in Kengo Kuma and Associates). He graduated from Hosei University in 2002. He finished his master degree of architecture at Keio University in 2004. He has been working in Kengo Kuma and Associates from 2004. His main projects are "Banraisha"(Tokyo, 2005), "Suntory Museum of Art"(Tokyo, 2007), "Nagaoka City Hall Aore"(Niigata, 2012) and "Water/Cherry"( Japan , 2012), etc.

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Wimonrart Issarathumnoon

Assistant Professor at Department of Architecture, Faculty of Architecture, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand. She obtained her PhD degree in Department of Urban Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo in 2009. Her research focuses on Architectural and Urban Conservation. Her publications include: “Cultural Heritage Place: Yanaka, Tokyo and Banglamphu, Bangkok” (2008, Another Tokyo, The University of Tokyo and ichii Shobou); “The Signs of the Re-birth of Japanese Upland Village Cultural Landscape” (2011, Najua: Journal of Faculty of Architecture Silpakorn University); and Meanings and Principles of Urban Heritage Conservation: A Case Study of Yarn Banglamphu, Krung Rattanakosin (2013, Chulalongkorn University).

Yasue Mitsukura

Associate Professor at Department of System Design Engineering, Facukty of Science and Technology, Keio University. She received the M.E. degree from Okayama Prefectural University in 1999, and D.E. degree from the University of Tokushima in 2001. She worked at the University of Tokushima and Okayama University as an Assistant Professor and a Lecturer, respectively. From 2005 to 2010, she was an Associate Professor at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology. Since 2011, she is an Associate Professor at Keio University. Her interests are signal processing, EEG analysis, and image processing.

Yasushi Ikeda

Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at Keio University. He graduated from the Department of Architecture, University of Tokyo in 1985. He went on to complete the master in the Graduate School of Engineering. He joined Maki and Associates from 1987 to 1995, when he left to establish the Yasushi Ikeda Design Studio(renamed IKDS in 2003). After teaching for several years at Keio University Faculty of Policy Management as associate professor and at the Faculty of Environmental Information, he became professor in 2008. His recent projects include Sakata City Community Service Seminar Center Multipurpose Hall (2006); Taipei Main Station redevelopment project (2006). His publications include "Algorithmic design" (kashima-syuppann, 2009), to which he contributed a chapter.

Yeo Su-Jan

She is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Architecture, School of Design and Environment, National University of Singapore. Her doctoral research examines the implications of contemporary urban nightlife in the design of public spaces and planning of local neighbourhoods. Su-Jan graduated from Simon Fraser University with a Bachelor of Arts in Geography (2003), followed by a Masters in Urban Development and Design from The University of New South Wales (2005). Prior to her PhD candidacy, Su-Jan worked as an urban planner at the Urban Redevelopment Authority in Singapore.

Zoran Djukanović

Assistant Professor of Urban Planning, Urban Design and Public Art University of Belgrade, Faculty of Architecture, Department of Urbanism, Belgrade, Serbia; Initiator founder and leader of the international, interdisciplinary research Program “Public Art and Public Space”; Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Forestry University of Belgrade, Department Landscape Architecture and Horticulture. He is a member of several national/international management, consulting and advisory bodies of the cities, public/private institutions and NGOs in Serbia; special critics, guest lecture and mentorvof diploma/postgraduate study works at several faculties from Serbia, EU, USA, AUS. His recent research boks include Urbophilia(2007), Placemaking(2008) and Artin public space(2011).

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MnʼM support member Ken Akatsuka

Yoshiaki Kato

Saki Kozono

Yoshihiro Sasamura

Moe Suzuki

Ryoto Amano

Wakataro Ueno

Yuta Sato

M2 at Keio University. He studies architecture and urban design at colabo. His graduate thesis was focused on the urban morphology "irregulary shaped spaces" and it was published in "The Split Case". He also got in to a top seven at the Central Glass International Architectural Design Competition (2012, 2013).

She is a M1 student of colabo. She is interested in how people's impression will change through day and through year, between residential and visitors. She designed and built bamboo arch tunnel called "TAKE Place" last Apri in Tokushima LED Art Festival, considering light and shadow, daytime and nighttime based on my thesis research.

Master 1 student. She major in architecture and for the graduation design, she designed a supermarket at Tsukuba. Tsukuba has been developed by way of factionalism, and she wanted to redesign that.

He is an undergraduate student at department of science and technology, Keio University.My main interest is relationship between emotional impact and architecture. He wants to analyze each element of architecture and make the typology. He likes playing kendo which is Japanese martial arts and He has third-dan(rank).

Kira Horie

Undergraduate fourth year student of co+labo, Darko Radovic Laboratory. She lived in California for ten years during elementary and middle school. She designed the Summer Jiyugaoka Pavilion. The theme of her diploma design and thesis are both urban rivers. She would like to go abroad for graduate studies. Her hobbies are badminton and photography.

M2 at Keio University. He was born in Fukuoka, one of the biggest cities in Japan. He researches the relationship the feelings and the size of public spaces. He also plays well in the tennis, hockey and violin. But his brain does not work in the morning.

M1 student at Keio University. He was born in Toyama, one of the smallest cities in Japan. His main researche topics are minimum dwellings and homelesses. He has recieved some prizes for his doploma design and competition held by Mitsui residential. He also plays baseball and handball well. But his brain does not work at night.

Born in 1990, Tokyo. Undergraduate student of Keio University since April 2010. Member of co+labo, Darko Radović Laboratory.

He has spent his youth in Australia then moved to New York in my high school years. Experiencing the modernism architecture in New York has motivated me to study architecture.

UG4 student at co+labo, Darko Radovic Laboratory, Keio. He was born in 1991, Fujisawa. He tries for design for gray areas. He researches about approach spaces. His hobbies are photograph and touring. The principal clarinettist of Wagner Society Orchestra Keio University, Tokyo.

Sotaro Miyatake

B4 student at Keio University. He grew up in Tokyo.His thesis aims to describe the character of urban space in Jiyugaoka focusing on the behavior of people caused by the unique urban components. He also loves football which he has been playing for 17 years. He was a member of the champion of Independence league 2012.

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