I speculate future scenarios, socio-technical visions, and beautiful dreams through Design.
Currently, I am a Strategic Design Futurist at JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Visiting Associate Professor at **Tohoku University.**
岩渕正樹は、NY在住のデザイン実践者・研究者・教育者。
現在は米JPモルガン・チェース銀行デザイン・フューチャリスト、東北大学特任准教授、またフリーコンサルタントとして、日米双方で仕事をしています。
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Masaki Iwabuchi is a NY-based Strategic Design Futurist and now works as a Strategic Design Futurist at JPMorgan Chase & Co. and a Visiting Associate Professor at Tohoku University. He is also leading the Speculative Futures Tokyo Initiative. His expertise is in User Experience Design, Speculative Design, Vision Design, and Artistic Intervention. He envisions future scenarios, socio-technical visions, and beautiful dreams in the organization through designed artifacts. Formerly he was a Product Design Lead at IBM Japan and had 10+ years of business and design leadership experience in the industry. He obtained his BE and MA degrees from the University of Tokyo and an MFA in Design and Technology from Parsons School of Design.
Masaki’s theory and practice are presented in his first book, Social Dreaming through Design (in Japanese). Also, he has actively expressed his future-oriented design process through his PIVOT2020 paper and articles on Medium. Recent honors & awards include a judge of Good Living 2050, a jury of Davey Awards, the student runner up of Core77 Design Awards 2020 Speculative Design Award.
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