Recruiting students for the Kansei Intrapreneur Course at the College of Kansei and Materials, which aims to create new value from sensibility and technology

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artience Co., Ltd. (President and Representative Director Satoru Takashima, Chuo-ku, Tokyo) and Leave a Nest Co., Ltd. (President and Representative Director CCO, Jo Inoue, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo) have announced that they will hold an open human resource development program "Kansei and Materials College" at artience Co., Ltd. 's Incubation CANVAS Program, which brings together players of various attributes from Japan and overseas.　Kansei Intrapreneur Course 2025" will start in July.
We are now accepting applications for new students.

Group photo of last year's final presentation

In this course, artience group employees and employees outside artience form a team and aim to create new businesses that create new value from their own sensibilities and external technologies through lectures, seminar activities, team discussions, etc. The event will be held in collaboration with Leave a Nest University, which is operated by Leave a Nest Co., Ltd., and will serve as a seminar leader, lecturer, and communicator, and will invite venture managers who have actually launched businesses in this field as guest speakers. It consists of 8 lectures for 4 months from July and will be held on-site.

Outline of Sensibility and Materials College

Organized by	artience Co., Ltd., Leave a Nest Inc.
period	July-November (every other Thursday) 14:30-17:00
place	〒104-8377　Kyobashi EDOGRAND Bldg., 2-1, Kyobashi 2-chome, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, JAPAN 29F
access	Tokyo Metro Ginza Line "Kyobashi" Station Exit 7/8 Directly connected Toei Asakusa Line "Takaramachi" Station Exit A5/A6 3 minutes on foot Tokyo Metro Yurakucho Line "Ginza 1-chome" Station Exit 7 5 minutes walk JR "Tokyo" Station Yaesu Underground Shopping Mall Exit 4 5 minutes walk
Capacity	25
details	Fostering sensitive intrapreneurs who gather friends with "empathy" and create value through "empathy" In recent manufacturing, attention has been focused on "sensitivity value" that is not limited to functionality and convenience. In this course, we consider this "sensory value" as "fulfillment of the mind" that is not limited to emotions that are directly evoked by stimulation of the five senses, and aim to develop new businesses through manufacturing and services to realize it. Participants will learn and practice how to launch a new business within their organization while utilizing the assets of each company, as well as human resources from artience group companies with diverse materials and peripheral technologies, as well as human resources from venture companies that have launched businesses that resonate with their sensibilities.
Output Issues	New business hypothesis presentation on the theme of "Kansei Value"
target	Corporate human resources who are interested in "creating learning that makes things happen" in collaboration with external parties Those who think about what "sensitivity value" is and are interested in creating a business based on it
cost	For more information, please contact us using the inquiry form below.

* About half of the capacity will be taken by artience group employees

Implementation Schedule

Part 1	Thursday, July 24 14:30-17:00	Where is the source of the value of sensitivity?
Part 2	Thursday, August 7 14:30-17:00	Creative Methodology
Part 3	Thursday, August 21 14:30-17:00	Bringing reproducibility to sensuality and value with materials
Part 4	Thursday, September 4 14:30-17:00	To transmit the value of sensibility to the world
Part 5	Thursday, September 18 14:30-17:00	Your sufficiency, your customers' fulfillment, and the earth's sufficiency
Part 6	Thursday, October 9 14:30-17:00	Bridge communication that creates value through empathy
Part 7	Thursday, November 6 14:30-17:00	Output Task: New Business Hypothesis Presentation on the Theme of "Emotional Value"
Part 8	Thursday, November 13 14:30-17:00	Final Presentation

Guest Speaker

Date of Presentation		Guest Speaker	profile
August 7	Thursday	BIOTA Inc. Representative Director Kohei Ito	Graduated from Keio University, Faculty of Environment and Information Studies. At the Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Keio University, he is engaged in bioinformatics research on the microbiome. We looked at the environmental microbiome of cities and buildings as well as humans. After graduating from university, he founded BIOTA Inc. We are developing our business with the vision of "creating a healthy and sustainable life through microbial diversity."
August 21	Thursday	Inoka Corporation Chief Executive Officer Yota Takakura	After graduating from the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Tokyo, he conducted research on instrument practice support using machine learning in the Junichi Rekimoto Laboratory of the same graduate school. In April 2019, Inoka Corporation was established. In 2025, it was selected as a startup support program "J-Startup" promoted by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. Utilizing our unique "environmental transfer technology" that reproduces marine ecosystems such as coral reef ecosystems in aquariums, we are creating new businesses with the theme of biodiversity in cooperation with large companies. The Setouchi Nagisa Forum was launched, and efforts were also developed to achieve a balance between the nature and economy of the region. In October 2021, he became a director of the ROHTO Children's Mirai Foundation. In the same year, he was selected as one of Forbes JAPAN's "30 UNDER 30". From April 2024, he will be appointed as a director of the Shiodamari Foundation.
September 4	Thursday	VUILD Inc. Representative Director CEO, Architect, Meta-Architect Hiroki Akiyoshi	In 2017, he founded VUILD, an architectural tech startup, aiming to "democratize architecture." It covers a wide range of design areas, from things to things, such as digital fabrication and social design. Major awards include the Under 35 Architects exhibition Gold Medal Award (2019), the Good Design Gold Award (2020), the Archi-Neering Design AWARD 2021 Grand Prize (2022), the Archi-Neering Design AWARD 2023 Grand Prize (2024), and the Minna no Architecture Award Grand Prize (2024). "Meta-Architect - Architecture for the Next Generation" (2022)
September 18	Thursday	Fabula Inc. Representative Director CEO Kota Machida	Born in 1992. Graduated from the Faculty of Engineering, University of Tokyo. He spent his childhood in the Netherlands and became interested in environmental issues. At the Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo, the University of Tokyo, we developed a new material (patented technology) made from 100% food waste. In October 2021, three childhood friends from elementary school established Fabula Co., Ltd. with the aim of "valuing all kinds of waste." Finding stories in garbage discarded as worthless and creating excitement from garbage. My favorite food waste is tangerine peels. His hobby is traveling, and he has traveled to more than 60 countries. My favorite city is Venice.
October 9	Thursday	buoy Co., Ltd. / Technolab Co., Ltd. President and Representative Director Mitsukuni Hayashi	buoy Co., Ltd. / Technolab Co., Ltd. President and Representative Director. Technolab is a plastics manufacturer that mainly develops low-volume products such as IoT devices and medical devices. On the other hand, as a company involved in plastic manufacturing, he set up an in-house research team to see if there was anything he could do to solve the problem of marine debris, and is currently in charge of manufacturing technology for the upcycled marine debris brand Buoy.