Shodai Kayama / カヤマ ショウダイ
About Me
Shodai Kayama — creative technologist & design researcher based in Tokyo. He designs new experience by weaving analog/digital interaction, storytelling and people’s creativity with playfulness.
He graduated from MArch Design for Performance and Interaction at Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London. He always looks for collaborators and new opportunities that he can apply his interaction design skill.
His interest is designing new interaction and technology that naturally adapts to daily experience. In order for this, his works are superficially simple and playful. He believes this approach can broaden people’s perspectives about future interaction and technology.
Current CV is here.
カヤマ ショウダイ
デザイナー／エンジニア／リサーチャー。物語性や遊び心を用いて、アナログとデジタルの境界を跨いだインタラクションをデザインしている。 技術要素をシンプルさや親しみやすさを感じる形態に落とし込み、日常レベルに溶け込む仕組みへデザインすることで未来のコミュニケーションやテクノロジーへの新たな視点を提案している。 2019年末、MArch Design for Performance and Interaction at Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London 修了。
What I do:
- Developing alternative perspectives underpinned by theories and technologies from different fields
- Hypostatize interactive prototypes from abstract concepts
- Building new services and products
Award / Exhibition:
- 2021 : Exhibition - Development project based on The Hanged Man, OPEN INNO-vation 2021 (The installation was also on a TV news program, World Business Sattelite)
- 2021 : Award (Jury Selection) - The Hanged Man, 24th JAPAN MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL
- 2020 : Semi-finalist - Development idea based on The Hanged Man, Tokyo Startup Gateway Contest 2020 organisied by Tokyo Metropolitan Government
- 2020 : Adopted Project - Development idea based on The Hanged Man, Disruptive Challenge Selection of INNO-vation progmram organised by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications
- 2020 : Nomination - The Hanged Man, Generation Award category of INNO-vation progmram organised by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications
- 2019 : Exhibition - The Hanged Man at Fifteen, Bartlett School of Architecture graduation show, London
- 2019 : Installation - The Hanged Man at Camden Market, London
- 2019 : Academic Presentation - The Hanged Man at Tate Britain, London
- 2019 : Exhibition - Re-fit at BrainPower, UCL Neuroscience Festival, London (Team project working with Dalia Todary-Michael, Weichen Tang, Qiuyan Da, Jowin Foo and Kongpyung Moon)
- 2019 : Exhibition - Naked (Prototype of The Hanged Man) at Prototypes in Public@Samsung KX, London
- 2019 : Exhibition - Naked (Prototype of The Hanged Man) at the project fair, UCL, Here East, London
- 2012 : Award - The performance award in "Mashup Awards 8" organised by Recruit Holdings Co.,Ltd (Team project working with @jksoft)
Experience
- 2022- : Design engineer at Design Center of Electronics Company in Tokyo (The detail is withheld for privacy)
- 2020-2022 : Freelance interaction designer
- 2018-2019 : MArch Design for Performance and Interaction at Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London
- 2018 : Intern at Nendo Inc.
- 2017-2018 : Freelance (Mainly worked with Monstar Lab Bangladesh Ltd.)
- 2016-2017 : Graduate Diploma in Design at Goldsmiths, University of London
- 2015-2016 : Study Abroad Art and Design Course at Japan College of Foreign Languages
- 2011-2015 : Design technologist, Web engineer, Project manager at Monstar Lab, Inc.
- 2007-2011 : Bachelor Media Science at Tokyo University of Technology
Contact
shodai.kayama gmail.com