Kensho Miyoshi

Designer and design researcher.
Born in Hyogo Prefecture in 1990. Graduated from the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the University of Tokyo and completed the master’s program at the same institution. Received a PhD from the Royal College of Art, UK, and was awarded the Best Doctoral Dissertation Prize (Anhalt University, Germany). Author of Designing Motion Itself (BNN) and Designing Objects in Motion: Exploring Kinaesthetic Empathy (Birkhäuser, Switzerland). Certified Buteyko Breathing Method Instructor. Currently Assistant Professor at the Faculty of System Design, Tokyo Metropolitan University. Co-founder of POETIC CURIOSITY and founder of Shinkokyu Inc.

https://miyoshikensho.com

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Sho Ota

Sho was born in Chiba Prefecture in 1984. After graduating from the Department of Design, Faculty of Engineering, Chiba University, he joined a furniture manufacturer. In 2018, he completed a Master’s program in Contextual Design at the Design Academy Eindhoven and established Studio Sho Ota in the same year. He is based in the Netherlands and has exhibited his work in galleries across Europe and the U.S. In 2021, he held his first solo exhibition in Paris. He is driven to create works through small-scale production that would be impossible to achieve through mass production.

https://shootadesign.com/

https://www.instagram.com/shoo_ohta/