115th metaPhorest Seminar

November 21th, 2025 (Friday) 19:00-20:40

115th metaPhorest Seminar: Tomoki Nanasawa & Tomoya Ishibashi

This event will be primarily in Japanese.

This event will be primarily in Japanese. The metaPhorest seminar on Friday, November 28th will feature Tomoki Nanasawa. We will primarily hear about the “Iriomote JUNGLE CLUB,” which practices a hunter-gatherer lifestyle on Iriomote Island, and the technological philosophy that underpins its ideology. Hosted by metaPhorest member Tomoya Ishibashi, this session will also explore recent art practices involving microscopes, centered around the Iriomote JUNGLE CLUB, which participated for the first time.

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Date, Place

November 28th, 2025 (Friday) 19:00-20:40 Waseda TWIns 3F Seminar room 3 https://maps.app.goo.gl/Wy23SqPPMo3P7V8JA

ONLINE

This seminar can also be held online. Zoom Link

Tomoki Nanasawa

Representative of Technel LLC, Specially Appointed Professor at Yamanashi Prefectural University, SPT2023 (International Society for the Philosophy of Technology 2023) Steering Committee Member. Drawing on his experience in corporate technology development, he researches philosophy of technology. He runs the “Tech Philosophy Research Group,” where Japanese philosophers of technology gather, and the “Iriomote JUNGLE CLUB,” which practices a hunter-gatherer-style residency in a subtropical virgin jungle using carefully selected tools. Co-translator of Lectures on the Philosophy of Technology (Mark Kukelbaach). WIRED serial:

https://wired.jp/author/tomoki-nanasawa/

Tomoya Ishibashi

Born in Saitama Prefecture, 1990. Studied biology and engages in artistic practice based on interests in cultivated species, rivers, writing, and artificial intelligence. Affiliated with Waseda University's Life Aesthetics Platform “metaPhorest”. Enrolled in the IAMAS Doctoral Program in 2023. Recent major exhibitions include “Sensing Streams: Living with Creatures” (Tokyo French Institute, 2025) and “IAMAS ARTIST FILE #10 Cocoon: Thinking Ecology from Technology” (Gifu Prefectural Museum of Art, 2025).