This summer Elena Atluri, now a junior majoring in Product Design at School of Engineering, completed her 10 week internship at the end of August. During her two-month internship she pursued her own project exploring real lives of LGBTQ+ people in Japan. She particularly focused on “Q+ (questioning, queer plus),” which represents loosely categorized people […]
A Play City is a miniature city run only by and for children, a concept first hatched in Munich, Germany. This concept has been localized in many cities around the world, and Eriko has been leading one of them, Mini Kawasaki, since its foundation in 2018. Play City Mini Kawasaki This year, the city resumed […]
Now we are back to the field of dreams. Best wishes for your 2023!
This year we have been continuing our sponsorship for Play City Mini Kawasaki, the community program creating a city run entirely by children. Eriko started this initiative in 2018 and has been leading it ever since. This October 9th and 10th, the initiative was fully back to its original in-person event, which Eriko and her […]
As a lecturer, Haruka is now navigating sophomore and junior students of the University’s department of design through experience design. The program objective is to design a service utilizing XPAND code. The final deliverable should include actual UI/UX design. XPAND is a unique technology by XPAND K. K., a type of 2D barcode featuring horizontal […]
Since 2018 we have been working with Panasonic Connect to help them train their newly hired designers. Every year we ran the program ‘Practical Introduction to UX Design’ with strong focus on real-life application in Client’s day to day design process. This spring Client offered us this magnificent opportunity to reflect on our activities during […]
We had been supporting Mini Kawasaki 2021, the community program creating a city run by children. The entire program was completed and the activity report has been published. Eriko has been leading this unique program since its foundation in 2018, and Konomi supported the program administration last year as part of our sponsorship. The final […]