100th metaPhorest seminar

Friday, November 22nd, 2024, 19:00-21:00

100th metaPhorest seminar: Teruyoshi Furusawa, featured by Mio Iizawa + Shiryu Kirie

This event will be primarily in Japanese, but questions and comments in english are also welcome.

For the seminar on November 22, metaPhorest members Mio Iizawa and Shiryu Kirie—a graduate of the Iwasaki Laboratory and fellow metaPhorest member—will host Teruyoshi Furusawa, Specially Appointed Associate Professor of SCOLA, College of Science, Rikkyo University, and the official Japanese director of the Ig Nobel Prize.
Known affectionately as “Ig-Ojisan” (“Mr. Ig”), Furusawa has introduced the Ig Nobel Prize to Japanese audiences through educational television programs, exhibition supervision, and oversight of the Japanese-language broadcast of the award ceremony. In this seminar, he will discuss his activities, experiences, and ongoing work in science communication.
At the beginning of the seminar, Iizawa and Kirie will also introduce the latest developments from the web media project Zukanfu: Culture and Biology, for which they serve as planners and editors.
https://cultureandbiology.com/

Interview with Teruyoshi Furusawa in Culture and Biology Vol. 00

https://cultureandbiology.com/.../05/Vol00-2-1-ignobel.pdf
Participants are encouraged to read this back issue of Culture and Biology in advance.

Date and Time/Location

Friday, November 22nd, 2024, 19:00-21:00
Waseda University Research Facility for Advanced Biomedical Sciences (TWIns), 3rd Floor, Seminar Room 3
https://maps.app.goo.gl/Wy23SqPPMo3P7V8JA

ONLINE

This seminar can also be held online. Zoom Link

Teruyoshi Furusawa

Teruyoshi Furusawa is a science communicator and Specially Appointed Associate Professor at SCOLA, College of Science, Rikkyo University.
After graduating from university, he worked as a high school biology teacher while also pursuing activities as a music writer and DJ. In 2011, he joined the Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers and was stationed in Malawi. Upon returning to Japan, he worked as a Science Communicator at the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation (Miraikan). In 2016, he became a Specially Appointed Assistant Professor at the Center for CoSTEP (Communication in Science and Technology Education and Research Program) at Hokkaido University, before assuming his current position in 2020.
In 2023, he was appointed the official Japanese Director of the Ig Nobel Prize. Widely known as “Ig-Ojisan,” he has contributed to educational broadcasts, exhibition projects, and the Japanese-language streaming of the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony.

Mio Iizawa

Mio Iizawa is an artist, project director, and director of Culture and Biology. She completed her master's degree in Information Design at the Graduate School of Design, Tama Art University.
Her work explores the behaviors and individualities of living beings—not only animals and plants but life more broadly—through diverse formats including device-based art and publications. Motivated by an interest in the phenomena surrounding books and publishing, she also plans and operates TRANS BOOKS, a bookstore and media project that embraces all forms of media.
https://iimio.com

Shiryu Kirie

Shiryu Kirie received his Ph.D. from the Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences at the University of Tokyo, specializing in biometrics.
His doctoral dissertation examined the horticultural history of the water lilies depicted by Claude Monet through the lens of theoretical morphology. He currently works at a biotechnology company, where he is engaged in prototyping with biological materials and exploring industrial applications of biological data.
As an artist, he is a member of metaPhorest and also serves on the editorial team of the web media platform Culture and Biology.
https://shiryukirie.wixsite.com/shiryukirie