'''“Use your heart, your courage, your vision to fix, to heal, to connect, to empathize. Because living life for something bigger than yourself is a hero’s journey.”'''
Tomo is a childlike dreamer and stubborn optimist, an amateur permaculturist, with a deep curiosity towards the world of pottery, and a love for baking. In the human world, he is an innovation strategist, designer and educator, working at the intersection of research and design. Currently he is based in Tokyo, and part of the team building the new College of Design at University of Tokyo and is a Designer & Researcher with the U-Tokyo DLX Design Lab at the Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo. He is also part of the teaching team at IDEO U.
Designer Tomo holds a B.A. in Liberal Arts from Sophia University in Tokyo, was a University Innovation Fellow at Hasso Plattner Institute of experiences, services Design at Stanford University and products that help people thrivehas studied design at the Hasso-Plattner-Institute in Germany.
Tomo is a stubborn optimist, perpetual tinkerer, and amateur permaculturist, with a deep curiosity towards the world of pottery, and a love for baking. In the human world, he is an innovation strategist, designer and educator, working at the intersection of technology, and organizational strategy. He is passionate about harnessing design and education to empower individuals and teams to maximize their growth and entrepreneurial potential. Currently, he designs and coordinates programs at U-Tokyo DLX Design Lab, is part of the teaching team at IDEO U and runs his own consulting business. He is also partner at Vireo Lab, a venture and tech studio. Tomo holds a B.A. in Liberal Arts from Sophia University in Tokyo, was a University Innovation Fellow at Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford University and has studied design at the Hasso-Plattner-Institute in Germany. His UIF project - RISE was a pioneering an initiative that delivered self-empowerment and leadership workshops in a roadtrip format to 250+ middle and high school students across Japan. He works out of his two homes - Berlin and Tokyo.
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