Dr. Waro Kishi

Emeritus Professor, Kyoto University
Professor, Kyoto University of Art and Design

Title: [ Wa 和 ] = Modern

Short bio:
2016- Professor, Kyoto University of Art and Design
2010-2016 Professor, Kyoto University
2004 Visiting professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
2003 Visiting professor, University of California, Berkeley
1993-2010 Professor, Kyoto Institute of Technology
Taught Architecture Design in Kyoto Institute of Technology
1993- Organized, Waro Kishi + K.ASSOCIATES/Architects, Kyoto
1981-93 taught architectural design in Kyoto College of Art
1981-93 Principal, Waro Kishi, Architects & Associates, Kyoto
1978 completed post-graduate course of Architecture, Kyoto University
1975 graduated from Department of Architecture, Kyoto University
1973 graduated from Department of Electronics, Kyoto University
1950 Born in Yokohama, Japan

Awards
2014 Honorable mention, 6th Kenchikujin Awards
Special Mention, Fritz-Höger-Preis 2014 für Backstein-Architektur
Honourable mention in Building category of Kyoto Cityscape Awards
2012 Gold Award, Global Design Awards 2011, HKDA
2009 Housing Design Award for Osaka
2008 Gold Award, 16th Asia Pacific Interior Design Awards
2007 Good Design Award 2007
2006 Commendation of the Jury of Dedalo Minosse International Prize
2004 Commercial Space Design Award Nominate
Award for townscape of Akashi City
Award for townscape of Hyogo Prefecture
2002 Award for townscape of Aichi Prefecture
1996 Annual Architectural Design Commendation of the Architectural Institute of Japan
The Prize of Architectural Institute of Japan for Design1995Kenneth F. Brown Asia Pacific Culture and Architecture Merit Award
Annual Architectural Design Commendation of the Architectural Institute of Japan
1994 HOPE Award for excellent house in Kyoto
1993 The JIA(Japan Institute of Architects) Award for the best young architect of the year
1991 Award for townscape of Kumamoto Prefecture
1987 SD Review Award
1983 Commercial Space Design Award in Excellence

Dr. Sigvald Harryson

Associate Professor, Copenhagen Business School
CEO, Innoventum

Title: Bringing Beautiful Design to Smart Renewable Energy Solutions

Short bio: InnoVentum is a design company developing and commercializing the world’s most sustainable and aesthetically compelling solutions for decentralized renewable energy. In close collaboration with iKNOW-WHO and leading universities and design schools, InnoVentum has co-created and patent-protected smart and beautiful small-scale renewable energy solutions. The beautiful design of these solutions is reversing the trend away from “Not In My BackYard” (NIMBY) to “In My FrontYard Please”.
iKNOW-WHO solves extreme innovation challenges when no other organization or company can, by bringing university teams into a combination of collaboration and competition.

Prior to his focus on Design Entrepreneurship, Sigvald served as Associate Professor of Ecopreneurship at Copenhagen Business School, where he established the program Co-Creation Against Climate Change.

Having acquired a degree in mechanical engineering, Sigvald worked with Tetra Pak in R&D across 5 countries in Europe. He then went to Japan to do a PhD on Japanese R&D Management – analyzing how Toyota, Canon and Sony use know-who based networking to gain and sustain innovation leadership.

After his first PhD, Sigvald spent 10 years in Arthur D. Little, the Boston Consulting Group and Booz Allen to help companies gain and sustain innovation leadership through new networking approaches. During this time, he also acquired a second PhD focused on Knowledge & Innovation Management with a strong focus on Born Global strategies. Still in parallel with consulting, Sigvald then did a post-doc on business models for industry-university collaboration, which led to docent competence awarded by Lund University.

With this unique approach as base, Sigvald founded iKNOW-WHO in 1999 with Porsche as one of the first clients. Dr. Harryson published the Porsche breakthrough innovation case in the Harvard Business Review, which triggered further breakthrough innovation projects mainly with large companies facing a challenge in R&D that they were unable to solve internally. Since then, iKNOW-WHO has co-created a total of 22 breakthroughs – mainly related to smart design, energy-efficiency, material performance and emission reduction – for companies like Bang & Olufsen, Tetra Pak, Nestlé, AkzoNobel, DSM, Bombardier and Philips.

The need for smart and beautiful designs of renewable energy solutions triggered the birth of InnoVentum in 2010 in symbiotic collaboration with iKNOW-WHO and leading universities across the world. Since then, a number of patents have been co-created with InnoVentum products commercialized in countries like Sweden, Holland, France, the Philippines, Gambia, Madagascar, Sri Lanka and Morocco. The results can be seen and followed at www.innoventum.se and www.facebook.com/InnoVentum/ and www.instagram.com/innoventum/

Dr. Shannon Hessel

Associate Professor, Copenhagen Business School

Title: Teaching design entrepreneurship

Abstract: The subjects of design and entrepreneurship each invite a learning-by-doing pedagogy in university classrooms; knowledge develops best when hands-on practice and the development of craft skills and aesthetic sensibilities combine with theoretical analysis and application. Combined as “design entrepreneurship”, the activities energize one another and invite collaborative inquiry with external partners. These partners can include design practitioners and entrepreneurs, start-ups and established organizations, users and communities. In this talk, I share a series of pedagogical approaches in use at Copenhagen Business School that cultivate design entrepreneurial capabilities, and I tell how we put these into practice. Aspects of our approaches include arts- and studio-based learning, expert coaching, student-led research case writing, cross-university project collaborations, and doing “real” work together with client organizations or to establish own businesses.

Short bio: Shannon Hessel is an Associate Professor and Director of the Studio at Copenhagen Business School. Her research focuses on collaborative creativity and the role of aesthetics and arts-based practices in processes of business value creation, as well as on pedagogical experiments and innovations. Shannon has co-authored several Harvard Business Press books and teaching cases. She is currently working with partners at Denmark’s Royal School of Architecture, Design and Conservation to develop a new masters degree in Design Business and Strategy. Shannon is originally from the United States.