He founded and heads the Tokyo-based design firm, Concent, in 2002 and has been a professor at the Institute of Innovation at Musashino Art University since 2019. As an information architect, he explores design for understanding and democratization of design, with a focus on social innovation. Recently, he has been investigating the potential for “understanding through design”. In the book “Advances in Information Architecture,” he authored “Information Architecture Do(道),” which discusses Japanese culture and information architecture.