How can AI-driven design innovations advance the field of healthcare design? In what ways can AI improve the functionality and accessibility in homes, public spaces, and urban areas for the aging population?
The Finnish Institute in Japan continues its annual aging seminar series. This year’s topic about the potential of creating supportive environments for the aging population through the integration of AI and innovative design will be discussed by Finnish and Japanese researchers within design, architecture, technology, and aging studies.
Warmly welcome!
Innovating for the Future: AI-Driven Design for Aging Populations -seminar
Date and time: October 17th, 2024, at 3—7:30 PM
Seminar 3—6:30 PM
Networking reception 6:30—7:30 PM (Onsite)
Onsite venue: Tokyo Midtown, Design Hub, International Design Liaison Center
Online on ZOOM
Tickets available until: October 17th, 2024, 12 PM
Free of charge
The seminar will have consecutive interpretation (Japanese-English-Japanese).
Registration: https://agingseminar2024.peatix.com/
Speakers:
Senior Scientist & D.Sc. in Architecture Ira Verma, Aalto University, Department of Architecture, Sotera Research group
M.Arch. Professor Laura Arpiainen, Health and Wellbeing Architecture, Aalto University
Associate Professor Taizo Oshiro, Department of Industrial Welfare Management, Faculty of Comprehensive Management, Tōhoku Fukushi University
Senior Researcher Hiroyasu Miwa, Human Augmentation Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
Program:
3:00 PM Opening words – Dr. Anna-Maria Wiljanen, Director of the Finnish Institute in Japan
3:10 PM Clinical Art and AI – Associate Professor Taizo Oshiro
3:55 PM M.Arch. Professor Laura Arpiainen
4:40 PM Coffee break
4:50 PM Senior Researcher Hiroyasu Miwa
5:35 PM Senior Scientist & D.Sc. in Architecture Ira Verma
6:20 PM Closing remarks – Dr. Anna-Maria Wiljanen
6:30 PM Networking reception (Onsite)
7:30 PM Doors close
Ira Verma (D.Sc in Architecture) is working as a Senior scientist in the Research Group for Health and Wellbeing Architecture, at the Department of Architecture, Aalto University. She has long experience of various national and international research and development projects related to living and care environments for older adults, user centered design, and Universal Design. She is networking internationally and has recently been chairing conferences on these themes: International conference on Architecture Research Care and Health ARCH24, and International conference on Universal Design UD2021. She participates in teaching on related topics at the department. Her doctoral thesis called Housing Design for All in the context of ageing society was published in 2019. Other 90 publications include reports, articles and books.
Laura Arpiainen is the professor of health and wellbeing architecture at Aalto University in Helsinki. An architect by training, she is a long-term specialist on building for healthcare which has over the years evolved and expanded to considering effects of all built environments to health and wellbeing. In Finland, she was the leader of the two-year MonIA project, which researched integrated diverse and communal living solutions for memory decline.
Laura holds dual Finnish / Canadian citizenship and is particularly interested in diversity, integrated, inclusive and holistic solutions for design and planning, as well as understanding and working to mitigate climate change. She conducts doctoral research on how the built environment can best support wellbeing and believes that we all have a role in creating a better tomorrow.
Since 1999, Taizo Oshiro has been researching Clinical Art as a researcher at the Tohoku Fukushi University Kansei Fukushi Research Institute, and has conducted practical research using Clinical Art for the elderly, elderly people with dementia, challenged children, disaster victims, etc. In 2001, he became a research assistant at Tohoku Fukushi University, and after working as a lecturer, he is now in his current position. He also serves as a director of the Clinical Art Association and the Clinical Art Society. Since 2006, he has been involved in the development and dissemination of Finnish-style Clinical Art (Encounter Art) through active academic exchange with Laurea University of Applied Sciences.
Hiroyasu Miwa, PhD. in Engineering, was a research associate at Waseda University from 2003 to 2005, and was a researcher at National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) from 2005 to 2013, and has been a senior researcher at AIST since 2013. He worked on human robot interaction, human mental modelling, human stress sensing, human swallowing modeling, and his current research interest is service engineering. He measured and analyzed service processes of care staff, investigate acceptance of technology use in the nursing care services to improve the service productivity and quality.
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Tokyo Midtown, Design Hub, International Design Liaison Center
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