Research Project Keio 2040 (Creativity): Revolutionary & Interdisciplinary Soft Matter Integration Project (RISΣ project)

Japan, the world's most aged country, will be facing a national crisis of a "super-aged society" in 2040. Cutting-edge interdisciplinary young scientists have gathered to address this social challenge with a backcasting approach. Based on the theme of "What will be a sustainable civilized society opened up by Soft Matter technologies ?," we will invent revolutionary technologies that can realize a human-machine symbiosis (social harmony & physical fusion) and aim to propose a new form of society.

About Research Project Keio 2040:

KGRI Establishes the "Research Project Keio 2040"To Disseminate a Global Standard for Sustainable Aging Societies

Press Release:

KGRI Establishes the "Research Project Keio 2040" to Disseminate a Global Standard for Sustainable Aging Societies (2021.05.28)

Roundtable Discussion:

Challenges for the world's first "super-aged society" ―The design of Japan in 2040 as seen by KGRI― (2021.04.22)

Interview:

Yasue Mitsukura: What will a future in which human emotions can be analyzed and controlled look like? (2022.02.22)

Naoji Matsuhisa: What kind of future might we see in soft and stretchable electronics? (2021.11.29)

Dialogue:

Yasue Mitsukura × Masayoshi Kokubo: Considering the relationship between humans and technology from the perspective of "cognitive liberty" (2021.11.5)

Research Papers:

Ultrasound-induced nonlinear oscillations of a spherical bubble in a gelatin gel

About Project Members, Researchers.pdf

Note: ◎ indicates the project leader