TOKYO: STUDIO GROSS

Studio GROSS is an experimental practice defining architecture as a discipline of euphoria, based in Tokyo, Japan. Originally from Berlin and trained as generalists during a traveling European Master's Program. Through filmmaking, they expand their architecture field, intending to transmit their observations on the industry to a broader community. Current research at Tokyo Institut of Technology shall root the practice within a theoretical framework touching upon the entanglements of our living environment.
 

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KITASENJU DESIGN
Takayuki Watanabe also known as Kitasenju Design. A Tokyo-based freelance programmer, he has been designing digital content since 2007, including websites, smartphone applications, and video installations.

GROUP is a design practice that engages in the cross-disciplinary practice of urbanism, architecture, design, and art. Major works include “Garden besides Shinjuku WHITEHOUSE”, “Ebina Art Freeway”, and “Repair of Bathroom”. Venue composition “EASTEAST_TOKYO”. Their major edited works include “Notes vol.1 Garden”. 

Chloe Paré (b. 1996, Athens) is an artist and researcher who explores the materialities and interactivities of visual arts. Through workshops, installations, and art books, Paré facilitates spaces of entanglements with beings, matters, and architecture. She lives and works in Tokyo and researches how art workshops stimulate polyphonic environments through agential materiality. 

Maurizio Cirillo
The artistic practice of Maurizio Cirillo (born 1987 in Vienna, Austria) is based on the experience of hiking and walking through cities and landscapes. He reflects on these trips through photographs, videos, with objects, handwritten notes and sketches. His work oscillates between truth claims and conventions of representation, between the experience and the image, and to tell of his searching to understand the nature of human relationships to their surroundings and environment. He is currently the Artist in Residence in Tokyo with the support of the Austrian Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport.

Masamichi Tamura is a Tokyo-based curator and architectural researcher, currently a doctoral student of architecture at Tokyo Institute of Technology and a co-chair of Ageing, Well-being & Parks Committee at World Urban Parks. His curatorial practices and research topics focus on space, urban environment, and material-semiotic relations embedded in particular places.