crQlr Summit 2025 Tokyo – Living Loops

David Benjamin (‘05 M.Arch) is Founding Principal of The Living and Associate Professor at Columbia GSAPP. The Living has won many design prizes, including the Emerging Voices Award from the Architectural League, the New Practices Award from the American Institute of Architects New York Chapter, the Young Architects Program Award from the Museum of Modern Art and MoMA PS1, and a Holcim Sustainability Award.

Anni Korkman (she/her, b. 1990) works as the Programme Director of Luovi Productions.
Luovi Productions is a design agency whose core expertise lies in curation, production and communication. Founded in 1995 by Anni Korkman’s father Kari Korkman, Luovi Productions is a Helsinki-based company operating globally. Best known as the producer of the largest design festival in the Nordics, Helsinki Design Week and the independent design media Helsinki Design Weekly, Luovi is also the founder and the facilitator behind Fiskars Village Art & Design Biennale and several other cultural projects.

Anni has a Master’s Degree from Central Saint Martins University (University of the Arts London) and as a writer, debater and curator, she is passionate about working with adding Design and Architecture Literacy into peoples’ everyday lives. The more we are able to recognize design around us, the more critical to our surroundings we can become – and eventually demand for better physical and digital living environments.

Kalaya Kovidvisith is Co-founder of FabCafe Bangkok and Managing Director of FABLAB Thailand. She holds Master degree in Design and Computation from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Her research interests focus on how digital fabrication and biotechnology reinforce the changing relationship in industry and create the new business model for the next design generation. Kalaya is Global Entrepreneur Summit Delegate of 2015 and Asia Pacific Weeks Berlin 2016.

After graduating from Kagawa National College of Technology in 2017, Takaaki earned a Ph.D. in Engineering from Osaka University in 2022. He currently works as an Assistant Professor at The Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research, Osaka University.  

Takaaki’s primary research focuses on functional materials made from plant-derived nanofibers and the development of biodegradable sensors that “return to the earth.” Dedicated to realizing a sustainable and ultra-smart society, he strives to develop sensors that can be installed in large quantities without causing environmental harm.  

Website: https://tkasuga.com/

Arthur Guilleminot is an ecodeviant artist and positive maverick who practices fertile and generative disobedience. Intersecting disciplines such as design, performance, fashion, and visual art, he creates provocative visuals and vulnerable semantics, casting transilient, pleasurable futures for our world. He proposes radically regenerative approaches to meet our present and persistent need for change. After his art studies at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, his work is currently researching tools for deconditioning disgust through “Camp” aestheticism and buffoonery. These tools can be used to explore and harvest the subtleties of disgust to make us kinder in trusting our visceral impulses, disregarding imposed norms of being, and keeping an active hope.

Website: https://arthurguilleminot.com/

Photo credit: Jeph Francissen

Laura Benetton is a London–based multidisciplinary contemporary artist working at the intersection of art and science. Her work is informed by scientific phenomena such as bioluminescence and movement science. Generative in nature, her work spans a wide range of media, including painting performance, light installation, sculpture, and bio-art. Her work in the past decade has received International recognition, and selected exhibitions include: the Arnaldo Pomodoro Artist’s Residency, Italy; Jardine Orange Residency in Shenzhen, China; the Affordable Art Fair in New York and Hong Kong; the HubArt gallery in Italy; and, The Houses of Parliament. Recent awards include the Artist in Residency award from Artiq Gallery in 2022 and the Third prize for the Landmark Prize 2022 edition. In 2023 Laura was the recipient of the Artist in Residency Award from the Institute of Biomedicine in Barcelona in 2023. In 2024, she was selected to exhibit her project “WFP dance” at the worldwide Festival of Arts, Music and Technology SONAR in Barcelona.

Website: https://www.laurabenetton.co.uk/

Kelsie joined Loftwork and FabCafe in 2017 and oversees the FabCafe Global network. In FabCafes across Asia, Europe and America, Kelsie strategizes and aligns Fab synergies to empower everyone to take the initiative to make and share their ideas with local and global communities. Kelsie is also the Tokyo organizer for the Global Goals Jam (GGJ), a two-day designathon and community which aims to create short term solutions for the Sustainable Development Goals. Kelsie has organized sustainability and design thinking workshops in Tokyo, Bangkok and Hong Kong.