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2025/10/10
R4D Researcher Koki Kusano to Speak at RESEARCH Conference Pop-up in FUKUOKA on October 31, 2025
R4D Researcher Koki Kusano will be speaking at RESEARCH Conference Pop-up in FUKUOKA: Possibilities of Participatory Research taking place…
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2025/09/17
A New Approach to Design Research: “Playing to the Fullest”
Hi there! I’m Koki Kusano, conducting service design research at R4D. In this article, I’d like to introduce an example of Mercari R4D Lab’s…
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2025/09/17
Changing Item Perception Through the Power of Stories—How the “Merkame” Initiative Fosters a Sharing Culture
Hi there! I’m Koki Kusano, conducting service design research at R4D. In this article, I’d like to introduce an example of Mercari R4D Lab’s…
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2025/04/23
“Personal Design” for a Circular Economy—Report on Mercari R4D and Yamaguchi University’s Design Project for Value Co-Creation (Part 2)
In October and November 2024, Mercari R4D (“R4D”) and Yamaguchi University worked together on the “Design Project for Value Co-Creation to…
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2025/04/14
“Personal Design” for a Circular Economy—Report on Mercari R4D and Yamaguchi University’s Design Project for Value Co-Creation (Part 1)
Mercari R4D (“R4D”) and Yamaguchi University worked together on the “Design Project for Value Co-Creation to Encourage Environment-Aware…