Research fields:
Philosophy and Environmental Humanities
Research themes:
Establishment of a humanistic approach for overcoming environmental and social change on a global scale
[Keywords] Design philosophy, engineered social change
Main books and papers:
◆“Foodscape—Watashitachi ha tabemono de dekiteiru” (Foodscape: We are made of food) (coauthor, Anonima Studio, 2016)
◆“Tamba to Sasayama: Shiranai machi no, kazoku ni kaeru” (Tamba and Sasayama: I return to my family, in a strange town) (coauthor, Tamba Kenminkyoku , 2016)
◆“Mingei no intimacy—‘Itoshisa’ o design suru” (The intimacy of Mingei: Designing “fond feeling”) (author, Meiji University Press, 2015)
◆“‘Seikatsu kogei’ no jidai” (The age of “life crafts”) (coauthor, Shinchosha, 2014)
◆“Ningen kagaku toshite no chikyu kankyogaku” (Global environmental studies as a human science” (coauthor, Kyoto Tsushinsha, 2013)
◆“<Mingei> no lesson—Tsutanasa no giho” (Lesson in Mingei: The technique of awkwardness) (author and editor, Film Art, Inc., 2012)
◆“Yakihata no kankyogaku—Ima yakihata to ha” (An environmental study of slash-and-burn farming: What it means today) (author and editor, Shibunkaku Co., Ltd., 2011)
◆“Chikyu kankyogaku jiten” (A dictionary of global environmental studies) (coauthor, Koubundou, 2010)
◆“Taberu koto ha tsunagaru koto” (Who Eats What?) (cotranslator, Fukuinkan Shoten Publishers, Inc., 2009)
◆“Funiki no bigaku—Atarashii genshogaku no chosen” (Atmosphere as the Fundamental Concept of a New Aesthetics) (cotranslator, Koyo Shobo Publisher, 2006)