Wednesday April 22nd 2026 @ The University of Tokyo (Hongo Campus) & online
Each speaker will give a brief talk (at most 15 minutes) before each session they appear in and then all speakers will discuss and address questions from the audience.
9 :30-10 :00 JST Pause-café and welcome
10 :00-10 :10 JST Introductory Vitamins
Gentiane Venture, Dominique Lestel
10 :10-11:10 JST Trusted by Design?
Catherine Pelachaud x Jeff Lui
"A face is a face only when it is looked at by someone." Emmanuel Levinas
11 :10-11:30 JST Pause-café
11 :30-12:30 JST Things That Act
Grant Jun Otsuki x Amel Achour-Benallegue
"All nature is possessed, pervaded, crowded with spiritual beings." E.B. Tylor
12 :30 - 14 :00 Lunch time (on site lunchbox will be prepared)
14 :00-15:00 JST Prosthetic Expression: Coding Movement into Art
Masahiko Inami x Marion Laval-Jeantet
"I have a lot of parts that are human, and a lot of parts that are not. The parts that are not, I know what they’re doing. The parts that are human, they’re just... loud. They have opinions. They want things. They’re a mess." — Martha Wells
15 :00-16:00 JST Animal Minds, Artificial Selves
Shigeru Watanabe x Raphael Liogier + Sacha Raoult
" “We are all chimeras, theorized and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism.”
— Donna Haraway
16 :00 – 17 :00 General Discussions & closing remarks
contact us: ecoticonline@gmail.com a workshop organized with the support of the French Embassy in Tokyo and Kawada Technologies