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2025/12/19
Mercari’s R&D Organization R4D and Yamagata University to Launch Collaborative Research Project on “Personal Design”
Students and Professionals to Work Together With the Help of Specialized Generative AI and Aim to Publish Open-Source Results Mercari, Inc…
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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…
blog
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…
blog
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…
blog
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…