Yuta Ikeya / 池谷宥太
Born in Tokyo, Japan, in 1991.
Currently based in Yokohama.
Yuta Ikeya is a designer and engineer. He explores alternative roles for technology that can foster new relationships between humans and nonhuman species. He employs critical design to challenge the prevailing norm of “developing technology to understand and control nature,” while leveraging his engineering skills to craft tangible tools and equipment that realise this vision.
One of his projects, Metamorphonic (2022), was featured in the Dutch Design Awards 2024. His academic work has also been published at international conferences in the field of Human–Computer Interaction, including CHI and DIS.
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1991年 東京生まれ。現在は横浜に在住。
池谷宥太はデザイナーでありエンジニアである。人間とそれ以外の種の間に新しい関係を構築し得るような技術の在り方を模索している。クリティカルデザインの手法を通して自然を理解し制御しようとする技術開発の視点に抗うと同時に、エンジニアリングスキルを以てこの考えを具現化するための道具や装置の製作を行う。
作品 Metamorphonic (2022) はDutch Design Awards 2024にフィーチャーされた。アカデミアにおける成果はHuman-Computer Interaction分野の国際学会であるCHIやDISにて公開されている。
Exhibitions
2024 “Metamorphonic”, Dutch Design Awards 2024, Dutch Design Week 2024, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
2023 ”Negotiating with the Garden”, Design United EXPO, Dutch Design Week 2023, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
2023 “ARC - Algal Relay Computer“, Drivers of Change, Dutch Design Week 2023, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
2022 “Metamorphonic”, Design United EXPO, Dutch Design Week 2022, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
2022 “My First Analog Movie Camera“, Eindhoven Maker Faire 2022, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Invited Talks and Lectures
2024 MOME Future Materials Conference, Budapest, Hungary
Honor/Award
2024 Featured Young Designer, Spotlighted by Christien Meindertsma, Dutch Design Awards
Work Experience
2025-present Senior Manager in Tech & Biz Development Division - Chitose Laboratory Corporation (Japan)
2023-2024 PhD Candidate Researcher - Eindhoven University of Technology (Netherlands) (discontinued)
2017-2021 Mechanical Designer - Tetra Pak Japan
Education
2021-2023 Eindhoven University of Technology (Netherlands) - MScEng Industrial Design
2014-2017 KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden) - MScEng Vehicle Engineering
2014-2017 Keio University (Japan) - MEng Science for Open and Environmental Systems
2010-2014 Keio University (Japan) - BSc Mechanical Engineering
Publications
Yuta Ikeya and Bahareh Barati. 2026. Experimenting among More-than-Human Temporalities: Surrendering to Garden Bee Ecology. In Designing Temporal Ecologies: A New Framework for More-than-Human Worlds (1st ed.), Larissa Pschetz (ed.). Bloomsbury Publishing, London, UK, 288.
Yuta Ikeya, Bahareh Barati, and Stephan Wensveen. 2025. Aesthetics in Designing with the Living: A Systematic Review of Critical Perspectives and Artefacts. In Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 739, 1–33. https://doi.org/10.1145/3706598.3713343
Yuta Ikeya, Miguel Bruns, and Bahareh Barati. 2024. Designing for Interdependence of Bees, Garden, Designer, and the Changing Season. In Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS ’24), July 01, 2024. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1385–1399. https://doi.org/10.1145/3643834.3660743
Yuta Ikeya, Ron Wakkary, and Bahareh Barati. 2023. Metamorphonic: A Reflective Design Inquiry into Human-Silkworm Relationship. In Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS ’23), July 10–14, 2023, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. ACM, NewYork,NY, USA, 12 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3563657.3596053
Gizem Oktay, Yuta Ikeya, Minha Lee, Bahareh Barati, Youngsil Lee, Yuning Chen, Larissa Pschetz, and Carolina Ramirez-Figueroa. 2023. Designing with the more-than-human: Temporalities of thinking with care. In Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS Companion ’23), July 10– 14, 2023, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 3 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3563703.3591462
Yuta Ikeya and Bahareh Barati. 2023. Designing an Algal Relay Computer: A Critical Orientation in Exploring More-than-Human Temporality. In Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’23), April 23–28, 2023, Hamburg, Germany. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 6 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3544549.3585874
Yuta Ikeya, Ramis Örlü, Koji Fukagata, and P. Henrik Alfredsson. 2017. Towards a theoretical model of heat transfer for hot-wire anemometry close to solid walls. International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow 68, (December 2017), 248–256. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijheatfluidflow.2017.09.002