IMANAKA Ryusuke

Teaching Staff (Creative Manufacturing Design)

Title	Professor
Research Fields	Interior design / Furniture design / Product design
Education	1992 Master’s (Industrial Design), Tokyo University of the Arts 1990 Bachelor’s (Design), Tokyo University of the Arts
Selected Professional Experience	2013-Present Professor, Akita University of Art 2012-Present Designer, Kurokawa Kenchiku Kenkyujo Ltd., Tokyo 2011-Present Designer, sixinch JAPAN Ltd., Tokyo 2003-Present Representative, r-homeworks, Tokyo 1997-2012 Lecturer, Ochanomizu Art Vocational School, Tokyo
Recent Activities	<Selected design projects> 2017 Akita Furniture (JR Akita Station lounge) sixinch JAPAN Hongo Showroom. Tokyo 2015, 2018 BIYONG SCAPE (exterior monument design plan). Cable Networks Akita Headquarters 2015 BIYONG POINT (Akita University of Art gallery space). Cable Networks Akita Headquarters 2013 AKIBI41 Teachers’ EXHIBITION (exhibition plan). Akita University of Art   <Selected submissions / exhibitions> 2017 Ima aru sekai × Imada konai sekai [The Present World / The World That Has Not Yet Come] (with ODA Hideyuki). Akita Museum of Art 2016 Akita no bijutsu [Art of Akita]. Akita Museum of Art sixinch JAPAN booth. Interior Lifestyle Tokyo 2015 Gwangju Design Biennale. Korea 2014 Kawasaki de ato [Art at Kawasaki]. Kanagawa
Courses Taught	Materials: Expression and Design Technical Drawing Creative Manufacturing Design Seminar 1, 2 (Product Design B) Creative Manufacturing Design Seminar 3 (Group Production) Study of Regional Industry Product Design Seminar Client Presentation Seminar Graduation Project (Creative Manufacturing Design) (Graduate School of Transdisciplinary Arts) Transdisciplinary Arts Theory Applied Transdisciplinary Arts Theory B Transdisciplinary Arts Seminar Transdisciplinary Arts Practicum A. B Guided Research I, II (Master’s Program) Transdisciplinary Arts Research: Expression I, II Guided Research I, II, III (Doctoral Program)

 

Example Works
Akita Furniture (JR Akita Station lounge; 2017)	sixinch JAPAN booth (Interior Lifestyle Tokyo; 2016)	Relaxation room (Qualitia Co., Ltd., Tokyo; 2016)	InterMax booth (CYCLE MODE International, Chiba; 2013)
Bara furniture (sixinch JAPAN Collection; 2012)	Relaxation room (Transware Co., Ltd., Tokyo; 2012)

Further details (in Japanese) can be found at the following link: IMANAKA Ryusuke (Japanese page)