Business as usual is the phrase used, when people follow past practice without a critical lens.
Since the industrial revolution, a multiplicity of designed objects and systems have compounded, and as a result we face mass extinction of species in the millions, as well as 9 million people yearly dying from climate and environmental pollution. Here is a lack of strategic design. On the other hand, we live in an exciting age where awareness of biopheric issues have been growing, and methodologies towards Circular Economies such as Circular Design are becoming more established. I hope that the SD course will become a place to escape business as usual. So that it might be a place where people with the intent to strategically design ecosystems, gather, interact, take initiative, and grow. In particular I hope to foster a holistic direction among advanced designers who work with the biosphere in full view.
INAMURA Tokushu
- Design Engineering
Specializing in design engineering, which is the synthesis of design and engineering, I am pursuing education and research projects that create sustainable value through exploring innovation mechanisms from an interdisciplinary and international collaboration. In recent years, post human-centered design has been an important keyword in my research. We have concentrated too much on the issues of human society and not enough on the design of our relationship with the diverse species that makes up the earth’s biosphere. I believe that establishing a design methodology that is inclusive beyond species is necessary to build a prosperous and sustainable future. In order to approach this theme, I am currently engaged in cross-boundary research that connects individual creativity, state of mind, and embodiment, tothe perspective of larger societal systems.