「生命地域主義」「千年持続学」「自然に学ぶものづくり」を提唱し、地域の資源、技術、人材を活用した数多くのものづくりプロジェクトにも参画。科学技術ジャーナリスト として、製造業技術、科学哲学分野を中心とした執筆、評論、講演活動にも取り組み、2011年より(社)環境共創イニシアチブの代表理事も務める。グッドデザイン賞金賞、JAPAN SHOP SYSTEM AWARD最優秀賞、KU/KAN賞2011など、産業デザインの分野で数多くの顕彰を受けている。

Mr. Manabu Akaike, born in 1958 in Tokyo, is a science journalist and the director of Universal Design Intelligence Inc.
In 1981, he graduated from the College of Biological Sciences, University of Tsukuba, and completed a Bachelor’s Degree.
Universal Design Intelligence Inc., where he serves as the director, is a think-tank that provides social system design and develops goods and facilities encouraging social innovation.
Based on his visions such as “life localism,” “millenary sustainability,” and “manufacturing based on learning from nature,” he has contributed to a number of manufacturing projects by making the best use of local resources, technologies and human resources.
Mr. Akaike has been awarded several prizes, mainly in the field of industrial design, such as The Japan Society of Kansei Engineering Prize (2002), the Award for Social Cultural Merit (2003, Japan Culture Promoting Association), the Good Design Gold Award, Japan Shop System Award Grand Prix, and the KU/KAN Award 2011.
His recent books include “Konchuryoku” (Power of Insects) (Shogakukan Inc., in Japanese), “Shizen ni Manabu Monozukuri” (Manufacturing Based on Learning from Nature) (Toyo Keizai Inc., in Japanese), and “Nippon Technology” (Maruzen Co., Ltd., in Japanese).

スヴェンドリニ・カクチ 氏
Ms SUVENDRINI KAKUCHI
Tokyo Correspondent. Inter Press Service
【タイトル】What is Resilience
【経歴】
Suvendrini Kakuchi, is Tokyo correspondent for Inter Press Service, a news agency focusing on development issues. She writes on Japan-Asia relations and issues related to environment, human rights, education, international aid and gender.

Kakuchi has covered the December 2004 tsunami devastation in Sri Lanka that also resulted in a book on disaster volunteersim published by Iwanami Shoten company. She has also spent the last two years in the Tohoku region documenting the major tripple disaster that hit the northeast coastal areas with a special focus on the impact on the population and recovery process. Kakuchi, a Sri Lankan national, has spent almost three decades in Japan and is respected for her writing that puts the voices of the people in the forefront. She is a graduate of Sophia University, Tokyo and a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, U. S. A.

持続可能性を土台に、本当の幸せを経済や社会との関わりで学び、考え、対話する研究会を開催するほか、問題のつながりを見出し、新しい価値を共創するウェブサイト「イーズ未来共創フォーラム」（http://www.es-inc.jp/）を主宰。「つながり」と「対話」で、しなやかに強く、幸せな未来の共創をめざす。
ブータンの「豊かさと幸福：新しい発展のパラダイム」に向けた国際専門家作業グループメンバー。
主な著訳書に、「不都合な真実」、「成長の限界　人類の選択」「『エコ』を超えて―幸せな未来のつくり方」、「ＧＤＰ追求型成長から幸せ創造へ」など多数。

Junko Edahiro obtained a Master's degree in Educational Psychology from The University of Tokyo. Still active today as an environmental journalist, she is committed to communication and networking through lecturing, publishing, and translating on the environment, all with the aim of causing behavioral change among people and building effective systems for a sustainable society. To comprehensively study the relationship among happiness, economy, and society and work on these themes, she holds workshops on happiness and sustainability. She organizes a website "e’s Future Co-Creation Forum" to co-create new value from finding relationships among factors within a problem. She contributes to co-creation of happy and resilient future through human connections and dialogue. Member of the International Expert of Working Group for the New Development Paradigm appointed by the King of Bhutan Her published translations include "An Inconvenient Truth," "Limits to Growth: The 30-year Update,". Her publications include "Beyond 'Eco' - How to Make a Happy Future," and "From Pursuit of GDP Growth to Creation of Happiness" based on "Life Beyond Growth".

Associate professor of Waseda University from April 2008 (Present Position).　Doctor of Engineering..Established and represented a university environmental venture,　

ニューヨークと東京にて、グラフィックやWeb、パッケージやプロダクトなど幅広いジャンルのデザインを手がけつつ、デザイン書籍を国海外で執筆し、2009年より現職。
京とは異なる地域性を持った環境未来都市である北九州市に感化され、現在では、地域ベースのコミュ二ティデザイン、また、BOP関連のプロダクトを中心としたサステイナブルであり社会課題解決型のソーシャルデザイン手法を研究中。