Yuta Ikeya / 池谷宥太
Designer / design researcher / engineer.
As a designer, I explore the role of technology in the better cohabitation of human and nonhuman living beings. I employ Critical Design approaches to evoke discussions on the entanglements of humans, nonhumans, and technology, where the engineered artefacts realise rich and novel interactions.
Currently, I am a PhD candidate at the Industrial Design faculty of Eindhoven University of Technology (The Netherlands), researching the concept of aesthetics within a posthumanist design context. I acquired an MSc in industrial design from Eindhoven University of Technology after I shifted my career into design from engineering. I hold two MSc degrees in mechanical engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden) and Keio University (Japan).
In addition to research into the intersection of posthumanism and design, I have a passion for making things for my hobby such as photography. One of the examples is the world’s (arguably) first 3D-printed motion picture camera.
Publications
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
Exhibitions
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
Experience
2023-present PhD Candidate - Eindhoven University of Technology (Netherlands)
2017-2021 Mechanical Designer - Tetra Pak Japan
Education
2021-2023 Eindhoven University of Technology (Netherlands) - MSc Industrial Design
2014-2017 KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden) - MScEng Vehicle Engineering
2014-2017 Keio University (Japan) - MSc Science for Open and Environmental Systems
2010-2014 Keio University (Japan) - BSc Mechanical Engineering
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