FUMIYA AKASAKA
Living Lab / Co-Design Researcher at AIST
Living Lab / Co-Design Researcher at AIST
I'm a Group Leader at AIST, RIHSA. My research interests includes Living Labs for social innovation, co-design / participatory design (especially in community-based co-design), service design, and service engineering.
[Apr 1, 2026] Promoted to Group Leader (Socio-Digital Service System Research Group, Research Institute of Human and Societal Augmentation, AIST)
[Sep 12, 2024] Organised an event to share PDC2024 experiences at Musashino Art University.
[Aug 14, 2024] Presented a paper entitled "Consciously drifting: Exploratory design practices that embrace influences from local community " at the PDC (Participatory Design Conference) 2024, Sibu, Malaysia.
[Jul 24, 2024] Presented a special guest talk entitled "Living labs as a co-creation platform for social innovation: studies on its practices and theory" at the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST), Ishikawa, Japan.