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CHANGE TOMORROW ‐Chomorrow–

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Eyewear Computing

Geist

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Dementia Eyes

Embodied Media

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FEEL TECH Wear

Embodied Media

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

Creative Industry

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The Neurodiversity Project

Policy Project

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Boiling Mind

Embodied Media

Geist

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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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Living Life Factory

Future Crafts

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#Bio Design

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SAMCARA LAB

SAMCARA

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Food Factory

Future Crafts

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Announcement of the event “How to Build a Fusion Power Plant: Three Days to Design the Future [feat. J-Fusion]”

— An intensive program for students and early-career professionals envisioning the future of fusion power — The Fusion Industry Research Center, Keio University (Location: Kohoku-ku, Yokohama | Director: Shutaro Takeda) is pleased to announce that it has been selected for the FY2025 National Institute for Fusion Science (NIFS) Schooling & Networking Program (Fusion Science School). Centered around the newly established Fusion Industry Research Center, Keio University will host an intensive three-day program titled “How to Build a Fusion Power Plant: Three Days to Design the Future [feat. J-Fusion]”, to be held from Friday, January 30 to Sunday, February 1, 2026,...

【Awards】SIGGRAPH Asia 2025 Emerging Technologies Awards

At ACM SIGGRAPH ASIA 2025 - one of the world’s premier international conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques - held in Hong Kong from December 15th to 18th, 2025, a project exhibited by Embodied Media Project received the Best Demo in Show Award in the Emerging Technologies program. ◆ SIGGRAPH Asia 2025 Emerging Technologies “Best Demo in Show Award” Experience Sharing Box: A Platform for Capturing, Storing and Playback of Multisensory Memory Haruomi Higashi, Yufan Zhu, Jack Brophy, Ismael Rasa, Jinsuke Morita, Arata Horie, Takatoshi Yoshida, and Kouta Minamizawa KMD Embodied Media Project x commissure, Inc. ACM Digital Library:...

Toward Automated Quantum Network Construction

―Automatic Configuration Technology for "Plug-and-Play" Quantum Network Devices― Associate Professor Shota Nagayama at the Graduate School of Media Design and his research team, Keio University, in collaboration with Mercari, Inc., have developed a method to automatically detect the configuration and connection status of quantum networks, thereby streamlining the process of automatic setup. This research was presented at the international quantum computing conference "QCE25" on September 5, 2025, and the paper "Automatic Configuration Protocols for Optical Quantum Networks" received the Best Paper Award 2nd place in the Quantum Networking & Communications (QNET) division. Full Press Release

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Co-design the Future Society with Diverse Stakeholders

“Amplify the Sense of Wonder”

PLAY: Entertainment Media Design

Colors Everyday Scenes Filled with Playfulness

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.

Embodied Media

Prototyping the future by integrating our sensibility and innovative technologies.

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

Global Education *closeout

Building global connections and sharing ideas across borders

Network Media

Connect Everything

Future Crafts

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

閑（Itoma）

Read Between the Lines

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

Policy Project

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

Invisible Future

Making the invisible future visible.

design to evolve.

About KMD

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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Notification on Public Doctoral Dissertation Defense on November 11 (Keren LIU)

Notification on Public Doctoral Dissertation Defense on July 12 (Silvana MALAVER TURBAY)

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