D I S T A N C E S

The global emergency due to the COVID-19 pandemics strongly impacted on the perception and management of distances. Social, economic, logistics and psychological consequences of distancing procedures affected many aspects of our life and interactions, allowing rethinking and reshaping spaces both physical and virtual, and involving new forms of theoretical and practical thoughts and studies.

Within this scenario, the dynamic interplay between physical and virtual distances has assumed new forms, forcing innovative cross-disciplinary attitudes to develop as well as the design of new perspectives for the future of research.

This workshop, which focuses on Japan and Italy, combines multidisciplinary research to discuss the notion of distance, in continuation with a previous event held in 2020 thanks to the organization of ISEAS (https://iseas-kyoto.org/workshops/e3602).

Also in this edition, the workshop gathers scholars and experts from different disciplines and aims to converge their knowledge on the common discussion platform of how the perception of distance is addressing new research trends in scientific and humanistic studies.

CHAIRS

Stefania Bandini

University of Milano-Bicocca and RCAST – The University of Tokyo

Tomoo Matsuda

Mitsubishi Research Institute, Tokyo

Katsuhiro Nishinari

RCAST – The University of Tokyo

Silvio Vita

Kyoto University of Foreign Studies and the Italian School of East Asian Studies, JAPAN

LECTURERS

Roberta Albiero

IUAV University, Venice, ITALY

Florian Coulmas

Institute for East Asian Studies, University of Duisburg-Essen, GERMANY

Francesca Gasparini

University of Milano-Bicocca, ITALY

Ryohei Kanzaki

Research Center of Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo - JAPAN

Laura Liverani

Documentary Photographer, Milano, ITALY

Tomoo Matsuda

Platinum Society Center, Mitsubishi Research Institute, Tokyo, JAPAN

Katsuhiro Nishinari

Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, JAPAN

Giovanni Occhipinti

Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Institut Universitaire de France, FRANCE

Yukio Ohsawa

Department of Systems Innovation, The University of Tokyo, JAPAN

Francesco Zurlo

Department of Design, Politecnico di Milano, ITALY

DISCUSSANTS

Andrea De Antoni

Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, JAPAN

Paola Cavaliere

Graduate School of Human Sciences, Osaka University

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