Fumiya Akasaka
Senior Researcher, Research Institute on Human and Societal Augmentation (RIHSA), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan
Fumiya Akasaka, Ph.D., is a Senior researcher at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan. His research interests include the methodological aspects of co-design and living labs, socio-digital transformation design in smart city context, and community-based co-design for social innovation. He has been active in publishing high quality academic works and won the Best Full Research Paper Award at Open Living Lab Days 2024. He is continuously engaged in research activities to interconnect “practice” and “theory”; he leads the service design-based living lab projects in Kashiwanoha smart city in Japan and builds methodologies through such practical projects. He is also the principal investigator of LLL (Living Lab Laboratory) project, a research project for the establishment of a living lab methodology for the Japanese socio-cultural context. He acts as a board member of the JNoLL, a network of living lab and practitioners in Japan.