Taro Akabane

Service Designer
Ethnographic Researcher
Japan
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I have been working as a service designer in Japan since the early days of service design in Japan. One of the co-chairs of the service design community in Japan.

As a service designer, I have been involved in consulting, research, strategy development and education for companies and government organisations. I also teach service design and project design to students at universities.I am currently a designer in a design agency, a driver of design change in a large company, a PhD student at an art college, a teacher at an art college and a leader in the design community.

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