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Anya Healing

Concordia

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Play Exhibition 2024: Bridges for Understanding

PLAY: Entertainment Media Design

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#Haptics

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#VR

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FEEL TECH Wear

Embodied Media

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#Interface

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Eyewear Computing

Geist

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Boiling Mind

Embodied Media

Geist

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CHANGE TOMORROW ‐Chomorrow–

Policy Project

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Yanbaru Pineapple-no-Oka Aha Roadside Station Project (Okinawa Prefecture, Kunigami Village)

Creative Industry

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Living Life Factory

Future Crafts

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Food Factory

Future Crafts

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The Neurodiversity Project

Policy Project

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Dementia Eyes

Embodied Media

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#Bio Design

#Design

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SAMCARA LAB

SAMCARA

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IE-KMD Venture Day Tokyo 2025

IE-KMD Venture Day Tokyo 2025 will be held on May 30, 2025 at Keio University Mita Campus. This international event will bring together leading voices from Japan’s entrepreneurial ecosystem—founders, investors, academics, corporate leaders, and innovation experts—for a dynamic day of startup pitches, insightful conversations, and meaningful networking. IE-KMD Venture Day Tokyo 2025Date: Friday, May 30, 2025Time: 15:30 - 19:00 JSTVenue: North Building Hall, Keio University Mita Campus For more information check here.

PLAY EXHIBITION 2025: We Dream, Therefore We Are

The PLAY Project at Keio University Graduate School of Media Design will host PLAY EXHIBITION 2025: We Dream, Therefore We Are on Sunday, June 1, 2025, at the Collaboration Complex, 3rd Floor, Hiyoshi Campus. This year’s exhibition explores future possibilities through the lens of “play,” inviting visitors to engage with visions shaped bysustainability, AI coexistence, and connections across all forms of life. Rooted in the idea of “backcasting from dreams,” each project reflects how members imagined a desirable future and traced it back to actionable ideas in the present. The subtitle We Dream, Therefore We Are reinterprets Descartes’ famous proposition,...

[Awards] The 2024 VRSJ Young Researchers Awards (Technical & Artistic Exhibition Category) at the 29th Annual Conference of the Virtual Reality Society of Japan

Rodan Umehara and Yufan Zhu, who completed the Master’s Program at KMD in March 2025 (Real Project affiliation: Embodied Media), received the 2024 VRSJ Young Researchers Award (Technical & Artistic Exhibition Division) from the Virtual Reality Society of Japan (VRSJ) for their technical demonstration at the 29th Annual Conference of the Virtual Reality Society of Japan. The awarded presentations are as follows: Fundamental Study on Haptic Remapping from Wrist to Fingertips for a Palm-Free Haptic Feedback SystemAuthors: Rodan Umehara, Arata Horie, Yusuke Kamiyama (SPLINE DESIGN HUB Corp.), Shin Sakamoto (commissure, Inc.), Hironori Ishikawa (NTT DOCOMO, Inc.), Kouta Minamizawa Exploring the...

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Co-design the Future Society with Diverse Stakeholders

Co-creation of more ethical future through anticipation of broad impacts on advanced knowledge

Design the society of the coming IT paradigm realized by the Quantum Internet.

Invisible Future

Making the invisible future visible.

design to evolve.

Policy Project

Leverage design, technology, and management capacities to formulate policies.

PLAY: Entertainment Media Design

Colors Everyday Scenes Filled with Playfulness

Network Media

Connect Everything

閑（Itoma）

Read Between the Lines

“Amplify the Sense of Wonder”

Global Education *closeout

Building global connections and sharing ideas across borders

Future Crafts

Creating the future integrating the physical and digital with a craftsman’s eye.

Embodied Media

Prototyping the future by integrating our sensibility and innovative technologies.

Let “Network” become a natural extension of the “Real World”

Creative Industry

Designing New Industries for an Era of Change

Explore the future of communication.

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The Keio University Graduate School of Media Design (KMD) addresses real-world challenges while envisioning optimal futures. Our mission is to pioneer "media design" - creating new connections between people and their environments - while developing "media innovators" who transcend traditional disciplinary and national boundaries.

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