Atsunobu Kimura's Research Activities
Atsunobu Kimura's Research Activities
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This page summarizes research activities of Living Labs, Co-Design, Participatory Design, Community Design, Social System Design, Social Design, UX Design, etc.
Atsunobu Kimura (Ph.D.)
TITLE
JNoLL (Japanese Network of Living Labs) : President
Omuta Living Labs : Co-founder
Co-Design Institute for Regional Innovation (NTT Group): Polyphonic Partner
Tokyo University of Science: Visiting Associate Professor
Omuta Future Co-Creation Centre : Person-centered Researcher
Kyoto University Design Innovation Consortium : Fellow
Social Business Network : Fellow
Japanese Society for the Science of of Design : Directer
Yokohama City PTA Liaison Council : Director
Digital Agency Certified Well-being Facilitator
former NTT Service Evolution Laboratories: Senior Researcher
MEDIA
Yurika (Media questioning the social systems)
Ajipon-Hanten (Media questioning the era) spotify Apple Podcast
Omuta Future Co-Creation Centre
CONTACT
kimura.atsunobu01 (a t ) is.naist.jp
For lectures, interviews and visits, please contact here.
PROFILE
Experienced researcher with a demonstrated history of working with solving societal challenges, social changes, and technology development. Skilled in promoting Living Labs/Co Design projects, UX design, innovation management, business development, and research project promotion. Holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from NARA Institute of Science and Technology and published numerous articles on living labs and innovation.
Mainly engaged in research and development of HCI, CSCW, UX and Social design and Living Labs. He leads design research teams and has implemented many UX design projects in companies and Living Lab projects on local social issues, as well as consulting and educational activities. He is currently exploring new ways of social design in the context of town development, regional management, service design and social system design with regional entities such as Omuta City, etc. He established the Omuta Future Co-creation Centre (nicknamed Poniponi) in 2019 and the Japan Living Lab Network (abbreviated name: JNoLL) in 2023:
Practice and research centred on Living Lab, a methodology for promoting co-creation across sectors, and a social system design methodology for ideologically transforming social systems, with academic papers (7 peer-reviewed, 11 peer-reviewed international conferences, 3 awards), media coverage (2 books, many newspapers and websites), lectures and advisers on design, co-creation and collaboration, regional creation, social He has given lectures, been appointed as an advisor, and developed educational programmes and textbooks on such themes as design, co-creation and collaboration, regional creation, and social issues.
Publications include "Information and Communication Technology in 2030 - Future Lives of Citizens" (NTT Publishing, 2015).
Research
Research
How can we overcome individuals' characteristics and organization's mission on Co-Creation?
How can we update Co-Creation environment (Social Systems)?
Here are my research theme on Living Labs or Social System Design, and I'm tackling on practice and research in specific local communities.
Research Topics
Research Topics
- Sustainable Co-Creation Model among regional stakeholders and private companies (A way not to exploit tangible and intangible intellectual property in regional stakeholders in a unilateral manner & A way to find new innovation insight for companies.)
- Atmosphere which occur citizen’s autonomic behavior (comfortable, flat, stimulative for creativity, adventuresome, motivative for learning, etc.)
- Conditions which allow professionals to co-create with each other overcoming their own professionalism
- Governance between stakeholders and their organizations to co-create (ex. A new way of social governance in community or city)
- Updating Co-Creation environment and Social System Design
Publications
Publications
My articles and books are related to Living Labs, Social System Design, and UX Design, especially on method and ICT practices.
You are interested in the Guide to Living Labs - ‘Tips for a successful Living Lab’ (see left), please contact us.
Main Works
Main Works
Social system design methodology to capture essential social issues
【TOP SELECTED PAPERS】Atsunobu Kimura et al.(2022),Social System Design Methodology for Transitioning to a New Social Structure, In Proc. of Open Living Lab Days 2022.[PDF]
Atsunobu Kimura, Hisashi Haraguchi, Yutaka Yamauchi, Katsuta Matsuura(2023)Social System Design Methodology for Transitioning to a New Social Structure - A Holistic Urban Living Lab Approach to the Well-being City -, Front. Sociol. Sec. Sociological Theory, Vol. 8.
*Related Contents:[Yu-riika] a media for questioning and dialogue to rethink human beings and society
*Related Contents: Poni-Poni, a local management organization oriented toward social system transformation
Living Labs paper
Living Labs’ characteristics, effects and challenges
Living Labs for criticizing principle of social systems
Kimura, Niiida, Nagashima, Shirai, Akamine. (2023). Practical knowledge sharing framework for living lab platform: living lab mandala, Proceedings of Design Symposium 2023.
New Design Methodology (Person-centred Design)
Person-centred Living Lab in Omuta-city
Sustainable Management Model of Living Labs [Good Presentation Award]
Kimura, Hayashi, Akasaka, Watanabe, Ihara, Regional management model for sustainable operation of Living Labs, Japanese Society of the Science of Design, Proceedings of 66th Spring conference.
Papers on specific practice projects.
Mizue Hayashi, Yoshiki Nishikawa, Satoshi Masaki, Hitomi Fujiwara, Yohei Sadohara, Masataka Umemoto, Katsuta Matsuura, Atsunobu Kimura, Yuko Nakatsugi, Yasushi Yamauchi, Yu Haraguchi (2023) Design practice towards well-being housing and community development - Prevention and reduction of relocation damage in municipal housing in Omuta City,, Design Symposium 2023 Proceedings.
Erika Ashikaga, Miki Yokoyama, Ayaka Shima, Katsuta Matsuura, Atsunobu Kimura, Yasuo Deguchi, Kenta Toshima, Yasushi Yamauchi (2024) A study of a scale to measure ‘motivation’ formation by collaborative approach, Japan Society for Design Research 71st Spring Conference.
Book
Information and Communications Technology in 2030: A Vision of the Future for Sei-katsu-sha, NTT Publishing (2015) New Information and Communications Overview, Telecommunications Association of Japan (2011)
Usability Handbook, Kyoritsu Publishing (2007)
For a detailed list of publications, click here (Publications).
Patents
Patents
Patent application 43, Registered Patent 31
Contents/Activities
Contents/Activities
This section summarized disclosed contents and activities.
Activities with government
Activities with government
Omuta City, Fukuoka Prefecture
Cooperation agreement on regional development for DX, innovation creation and regional symbiosis centred on people's lives
Joint experiments in solving social problems through the Person-Centred Living Lab, which involves the community and companies in a new way.
Joint experiment in a ‘community-centred living lab’ through co-creation between the local community and companies.
Nara City, Nara Prefecture
Joint experiment on the construction of the Nara Living Lab to solve social problems and create new value.
Third Nara City Environmental Basic Plan
Okazaki City, Aichi Prefecture
Cooperation agreement for the promotion of a community-based society
Yamaguchi Prefecture
Yamaguchi Living Lab - Give Shape to Ideas’ to promote DX! Kick-off event
Activities at universities
Activities at universities
Tokyo University of Science Social Design Course
Doshisha University Social Innovation Research Project
Tokyo City University Community Management
Many other activities with companies, community groups, etc.
Contents
Contents
Partner in Omuta-city in Fukuoka Pref. PONIPONI （Centre for person-centred ningen, Omuta) 's Contents
HP of PONIPONI （Centre for person-centred ningen, Omuta）
“Gunyari City” Serial article of PONIPONI （Centre for person-centred ningen, Omuta）
“Core of the Future” Person-centred concept book
Partner in Nara-city in Nara Pref. TOMOSU's Contents
HP of BONCHI (place to create sustainable region and society on its own) which operated by BONCHI
Podcast “AJI HON restraint” in which everyone enjoys change of era
Future Serial Article “journey in UX Design”
Co-Creation Space Design in which Citizen participate
NTT Technical Review
Person-centred Living Lab: a new way in which regional stakeholders and companies interact with
Data circulative living lab: ICT accelerate citizen centred activities in city
Activity
2014/11/18-20 Professional Design Camp organised by the Design Innovation Consortium 2025: How to live in a space within a five-minute walking distance
2015/9/16-18 Summer Design School 2015: service design to create city attractions with wholesale markets at its core
2016/06/10 Co-Creation Method for service creation ‘learning from people’ Practice and learning guide starting from 1 hour (Co-Creation Method)
2016/09/07-09 Summer Design School 2016: service design in the hospitality industry for foreign hospitality
2017- Design Innovation Consortium Fellow
2017- Social Impact Evaluation Initiative Endorsing Member
2017/06/03 Social Innovation Academy 2017: ‘How to design society? Thinking about social issues through the eyes of business people’
2017/06/23 Yokohama Policy Design Study Group Vol. 44 ‘Considering the development of a “Yokohama-style living lab” that creates socially useful services, etc. from the local community’, hosted by NPO Yokohama Community Design Lab, Inc.
2017/08/24 Service Design Seminar vol.17 ‘Designing Organisations, Designing Organisations?’ organised by Concent Inc.
2017/09/13-15 Summer Design School 2017: designing the last year of future life
2017/07/28 Roundtable discussion organised by the NPO Society ‘Collaboration between companies and NPOs: how companies can play a role in solving social issues’
2018- Lecturer, Graduate School of Engineering, Tokyo University of Science Introduction to Social Design
2018/04/04 1st National Living Lab Network Conference Poster presentation
2018/09/12-14 SUMMER DESIGN SCHOOL 2018: designing work style reforms with people who will be working in the future
2018/09/17 SOCIAL INNOVATION WEEK SHIBUYA Organised by SOCIAL INNOVATION WEEK SHIBUYA 2018, Essence of Social Design
21/11/2018 QUM BLOCS - Assembling, and the light for the future shining from the region -, Self-run regional session
2019- Lecturer, Graduate School of Policy Science, Doshisha University Social Innovation Research Project
2019/03/15 2nd National Living Labs Network Conference, Speaker
2019/04/02 Public Intelligence (Denmark) Seminar Nordic design infrastructure for healthcare innovation Invited speaker
2019/5/21 Co-Creation Method for solving social issues A guide to practice and learning starting with local people (Social Co-Creation Method)
2019/07/08 SD Drinks 11: Design for Aging Population, organised by SD Drinks Tokyo, invited speaker
2019/11/28-29 South Korea Global Creative City Forum in Daegu Invited speaker
2021/2/25 Future of ‘Shinagawa Konan’, organised by Shinagawa Style Institute, Tokyo, Japan
2021/03/24 Keynote speech at the 3rd National Living Lab Network Conference: ‘What we can do to expand the potential of living labs’.
2021/06/25 Technology and Society in/beyond Japan, organised by the German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ), speech given
2022/03/14 4th National Living Labs Network Conference Organised by
2022/5/31 Speaker at the event ‘ReDesign Talk: Regional DX created with residents, 2nd - Living Labs to co-create new commons’, organised by NTT Data Management Institute
2022/06/25 Organised session by the Information Design Research Group of the Design Society of Japan ‘Design to question the WHY of our feet - Shaping a sustainable society by grasping the structure created by time’ Organised and spoken at the session.
2022/8/30 Speaker at the 2nd Industry-government-academia collaboration seminar for promoting data utilisation and DX: Living Lab special feature - Aiming to become a data-driven prefecture - organised by Niigata University.
2022/11/17 Special seminar organised by the Hara Foundation for Intelligent Communication Systems: ‘At the forefront of municipal DX’, ‘Integrated regional DX tackled through co-design’, as a panelist.
2022/12/2-3 Event organised by Omuta Future Co-Creation Centre and Regional Creation Co-Design Institute NINGEN Societal Festival
2023/6/3 Kick-off event for ‘YOKOHAMA Centre for Opening Tomorrow’ organised by the City of Yokohama - Living Lab trends in Japan and abroad and the potential for future ‘co-creation’ - Speaker
2023/6/17 Yamaguchi Living Lab kick-off event organised by the Yamaguchi Digital Technology Promotion Foundation: ‘The Potential of Living Labs’, speech appearance.
2023/9/17 1st Kick-off workshop of Ikuko Nakajima's ‘Design Theory’ at Sanjo Monozukuri Gakko, appearance on stage.
2023/9/12-13 The 453rd STEPI Science and Technology Policy Forum ‘Corporate Innovation for Social Impact Creation - Focusing on Japanese and Korean Cases’ hosted by the Korea Institute of Science and Technology Policy, Korea Invited speaker
2023/10/11 Co-organised event by Quintbridge (NTT West Open Innovation Facility) and the Co-Design Institute for Regional Innovation ‘Awa of business and social - Towards co-creation (co-design) that creates value in the awa’ Planned and spoken at the event.
13/10/2023 Lecture/exercise on ‘How to solve new administrative issues using design thinking’, organised by the Japan Institute of International Municipalities (JIAM) of the National Municipalities Training Foundation.
27/10/27/2023 Sado Natural Symbiosis Lab 4th Seminar & Workshop: Future of the ‘Living Lab’ for co-creation-type local problem solving Participant
2023/11/11-14 5th National Living Lab Network Conference Organised
2023/11/17-19 Amagawamura Heuskole presents Living Lab Course Co-organised
2024/1/24-25 28th Kansai University Symposium on Advanced Science and Technology Invited Speaker Future Science, Technology and Innovation and the ‘Living Lab
2024/2/2 Organised by the University of Tokyo Research Institute for Gerontology and Gerontology and Centre for Co-creation of Future Society FY2023 1st Living Lab Research Exchange Meeting ‘New Developments of Living Labs in Japan: Establishment of the Japan Living Lab Network and the Concept of the Kamakura Living Lab’ Invited lecture ‘Latest Living Lab trends and Japan Living Lab Network (JNoLL)’
2024/2/16-17 Event organised by Omuta Future Co-Creation Centre and Regional Co-Design Institute Kick-off! Omuta, a society with constrained labour supply ~Turn the shortage of workers into an opportunity~.
2024/6/1/6 Non-profit company Polaris Creating a future of ‘working together comfortably’ - Polaris' practice from the perspective of social design Speaker
2024/6/26-28 Symposium on Multimedia, Distributed, Cooperative and Mobile (DICOMO2024) hosted by Information Processing Society of Japan Invited Speaker: ‘Co-creation platform connecting R&D to solve social issues: Living Lab’
News releases
2016/06/12 Kyoto Bank x NTT Data New Business Creation Workshop
2017/03/29 Launch of Manabi Pocket, an open platform for schools with access to a wealth of learning content
24/05/2017 Joint development of home communication device ‘petoco’
2017/09/19 F (Farm) to C platform-based e-commerce service ‘FreshFirst’
2018/02/26 Launch of the ‘Community-based Living Lab’ joint experiment through the co-creation of communities and businesses
2018/03/22 Launch of ‘Sleep Education Peels for Sula’
2018/05/18 Event-based demonstration experiment on the theme of adult social studies tours2019/08/30 Launch of a joint experiment in solving social issues through the Person-Centred Living Lab, a new form of engagement between communities and businesses
2020/11/10 Start of joint experiments on building the Nara Living Lab to solve social issues and create new value
2021/7/1 Establishment of the Co-Design Institute for Regional Development to realise a society where people can co-create independently.
2022/3/14 Organises the 4th National Living Lab Network Conference (Regional Co-Design Institute, Omuta Future Co-Creation Centre, Future Society Co-Creation Centre, University of Tokyo Research Institute on Ageing Societies)
2023/5/31 Speaker at the ‘YOKOHAMA Centre for Opening Tomorrow’ kick-off event organised by the City of Yokohama - Living Lab trends in Japan and abroad and the potential for future ‘co-creation’.
2023/6/19 Speaker at the Yamaguchi Living Lab kick-off event organised by the Yamaguchi Digital Technology Promotion Foundation.
External media coverage
Book
Public and Design (2023) Creative Democracy: How to start social innovation, changing society from ‘me’.
Junji Watanabe, Dominic Chen (2023) How to Create Well-being: A Design Guide Connecting ‘Me’ and ‘We’.
Media
Joint experiment of ‘community-based living lab’ through co-creation between the community and companies.
KBC Newspia', Kyushu Asahi Broadcasting Corporation, 26 Feb 2018. Other
The Asahi Shimbun, 2018/2/2/27, morning edition, Identifying and solving problems with ICT, the city and NTT conclude an agreement. et al.
Joint experiments in solving social issues through person-centred living labs, where communities and businesses engage with each other in new ways.
The Nihon Keizai Shimbun, 2 September 2019, evening edition, Omuta City, NTT West and others have started joint experiments in solving social issues through person-centred living laboratories. Other.
Wakuwaku Life Salon
Nishinippon Shimbun, 2020/3/6, morning edition, ‘Talking and exploring ways of life’.
Joint experiments on the construction of the Nara Living Lab to solve social problems and create new value.
The Nihon Keizai Shimbun, 2020/11/10, evening edition, Nara City, TOMOSU and NTT West launched a joint experiment on the construction of the Nara Living Lab to solve social issues and create new value.
BONCHI, the base of TOMOSU, opens.
The Mainichi Shimbun, 2021/1/20, morning edition, BONCHI (Nara City), cafe, bookshop and event space, a place for sustainable business start-up / Nara.
The co-working space (communal workplace) ‘TEN’ opened in BNOCHI.
The Mainichi Shimbun, 2021/8/14, A co-working space for entrepreneurship in a ‘garden’ space, also using a temple and an old private house.
Research project for the realisation of a wellbeing regional society.
The Mainichi Shimbun, 2023/3/16, morning edition, Experience life in a model room so that the elderly will not be confused before the demolition and relocation of the municipal Rekiji housing in Omuta, Fukuoka.
The project to connect with the local community using VR.
The project to connect with the local community using VR.
Ariake Shimpo, 2023/3/4, morning edition, Connecting with the community through VR. et al.
Collaboration agreement on regional development for the realisation of DX, innovation creation and regional symbiosis centred on people's lifestyles.
The Nihon Keizai Shimbun, 2023/2/2/27, Evening edition, Collaboration agreement on regional development towards the realisation of DX, innovation creation and a regionally symbiotic society centred on people's lives.
Yokohama Digital Regional Management Study Group.
Kanagawa Shimbun, 2023/12/15, morning edition, Regional participation in DX, more. Study group established in Yokohama City.
Article series on the Sustainable Smart City Partner Programme.
Regional management model for a super-aged society ‘and after’ GUNYARI CITY [Part 1] New OS for urban development / [Part 2] Structural transformation of living labs / [Part 3] The beginning of autonomous activities.
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