Tomo Kihara

Tomo Kihara

Tokyo / Amsterdam

About

Tomo Kihara works at the intersection of play, technology, and society, as an artist, designer, and developer. He creates playful interventions and toys for thought that provide a new perspective to complex socio-technical problems in an engaging manner. He holds an MSc in interaction design from TU Delft (NL) and has worked and collaborated with organizations like Waag, Mozilla Foundation on several design projects. His projects have been exhibited at places like the Ars Electronica and the Victoria & Albert Museum in London.

Projects

2022

AR poetry project that overlay the user's surroundings with signage posing questions about past and present climatic conditions.

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2022

Future Collider is a citizen-led participatory project that uses fictional signs and billboards in AR as a starting point for playful collaborative speculation on the future of cities.

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2020

TheirTube is a Youtube filter bubble simulator that provides a look into how videos are recommended on other people's YouTube.

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2018

Creating a job that provides a social alternative to begging on the street through discourse.

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Exhibitions

2022
Tokyo

Exhibiting the project Future Collider

2021
Ars Electronica 2021
Linz

Exhibiting the project TheirTube

2019
Amersfoort

Exhibited the project Street Debater

2019
Social Design Exhibition Asia at Red Dot Design Museum
Xiamen

Exhibited the project Street Debater

2018
London

Exhibited the project phonvert

Education

2016 — 2018
Master of Interaction Design at Delft University of Technology
Netherlands, Delft
2012 — 2016
Bachelor of Information and Environment at Keio University
Japan

Teams

Current
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