(Ph.D.) KAIRO KUSAMOTO
Design Researcher / Designer
I am researching the meaning and significance of designs created with human hands in the age of technology. I am also working on designs that make use of the characteristics of the human hand and the meaning of the hand that technology does not have. Therefore, my design concept is how to express the characteristics of the human hand in furnishings. My design concept is how to express the characteristics of the human hand in furniture, and to show that there are characteristics and meanings that exist only because they are created by human hands.
2012 He graduated from the Tokyo Zokei University Department of Design interior architecture.
2015 He graduated from the Tokyo Zokei graduate design master's program.
2020 He graduated from doctoral course in Tokyo Zokei university.
AWARDS
2019 NEO Award (Tokyo/Japan)
2018 A'Design Award (Italy) Silver Prize
2017 IDA International Design Awards 2017 (USA) Bronze Prize
2017 A' Design Award 2016-2017 (Italy) GOLD Prize
2013 TOKYO ZOKEI UNIVERSITY (Tokyo/Japan) Prize to School
草本海郎
兵庫県神戸市生まれ。博士（学術）
主にインテリア、家具領域のデザインを行っている。研究内容及びデザイン活動の軸は、AI・ロボットといったテクノロジーには備わっていない人間が持つ「手」の特性に関してである。人間の「手」の特性に関しては、博士論文において「有限性・生の一回性」「理性的行動と身体的実行の不一致」「個性」「欲望」の 4 つを挙げている。
東京造形大学造形学部デザイン学科室内建築専攻修了。
同大学大学院デザイン研究領域博士前期課程修了。
同大学院デザイン研究領域博士後期課程修了。