Kazuya is a trans-disciplinary designer to construct a bridge between fashion design and wearable technology in giving focal points to historical, existing and speculative fashion issues with science, technology and communication through design research and critique. He is researching in fashion design, wearable technology and bio design. His projects look at fashion design in the broad spectrum, from material development to the process of design in order to create fashion works to speculate on an alternative future of post-human bodies and explore how fashion design can be critical medium between human and natural / built environment.
Activities
UI-UX, Media Art, Bio, Editing, Graphic Design, Product Design, Architecture, Planning and Direction, Fashion, Research
Awards
Biography
1991年生まれ。スペキュラティヴ・ファッションデザイナー／デザインリサーチャー。バイオテクノロジー、ウェアラブルテクノロジー、デジタルファブリケーションに依拠しつつ、ファッションが持つ未来志向・思索的な創造性を探求する実践をおこなう一方で、デザイン学としてのファッション研究を学術的に確立することを模索している。
STARTS PRIZE 2017ノミネート、Wired Creative Hack Award 2017 特別賞、 YouFab Global Creative Award 2017 入賞のほか、オランダのダッチデザインウィークと南アフリカのデザインインダバより、2017年国際デザイン作品トップ20に選出。アルスエレクトロニカ東京イニシアチブより、テック・スキン・イノベータに選出。
慶應義塾大学大学院政策・メディア研究科エクスデザインプログラム後期博士課程。日本学術振興会特別研究員（DC1）。慶應義塾大学SFC研究所ソーシャルファブリケーションラボ研究員。ポイエーシスラボ（代表：福原志保）テキスタイルリサーチャー。慶應義塾大学大学院政策・メディア研究科エクスデザインプログラム修士課程修了（デザイン）。
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Speculative Fashion Designer / Design Researcher
Kazuya is a trans-disciplinary designer to construct a bridge between fashion design and wearable technology in giving focal points to historical, existing and speculative fashion issues with science, technology and communication through design research and critique. He is researching in fashion design, wearable technology and bio design. His projects look at fashion design in the broad spectrum, from material development to the process of design in order to create fashion works to speculate on an alternative future of post-human bodies and explore how fashion design can be critical medium between human and natural / built environment.
His works have been presented at Dutch Design Week 2017 (Eindhoven, 2017), Ars Electronica (Austria, 2017), Design Indaba (2016, Capetown), and AXIS gallery (Tokyo, 2015).
Also he was selected for one of the top 20 global design graduate by Dutch Design Week, World Design Event and Design Indaba and he was the prize winner at YouFab Global Creative Award 2017, Wired Creative Hack Award 2017 and STARTS Prize 2017.
Also Kazuya was nominated for a one of the “Tech-Skin Innovator” for Future Innovator Summit Tokyo 2018 by the Ars Electronica Tokyo Initiative.
He is in a doctoral course at the the graduate school of media and governance at Keio University SFC, X-design program.
Language
日本語
Place
Tokyo
