Director of DLab+, Professor
Asa Ito
Aesthetics, Contemporary Art
Received Ph.D. in 2010 from the University of Tokyo's Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology.
In 2013, she became an associate professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, and in 2020, she became the first director of the Center for Future Humanity Research.
In 2019, she was a visiting researcher at MIT.
Her major publications include How Do Blind People See the World? (Kobunsha); "Stammering Body" (Igakushoin); "Remembering Body" (Shunjusha); and "Hand Ethics" (Kodansha). She has received the 13th Akiko Ikeda Memorial Watakushi, tsumari Nobody Award; the 42nd Suntory Prize for Social Sciences and Humanities; the 19th Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Prize; and the Japan Academy Medal.
In 2013, she became an associate professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, and in 2020, she became the first director of the Center for Future Humanity Research.
In 2019, she was a visiting researcher at MIT.
Her major publications include How Do Blind People See the World? (Kobunsha); "Stammering Body" (Igakushoin); "Remembering Body" (Shunjusha); and "Hand Ethics" (Kodansha). She has received the 13th Akiko Ikeda Memorial Watakushi, tsumari Nobody Award; the 42nd Suntory Prize for Social Sciences and Humanities; the 19th Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Prize; and the Japan Academy Medal.