Takashi Iba

Takashi Iba, a trans-disciplinary researcher, creator, and writer, explores the nature of creativity and works to build media to nurture it. He is an associate professor at the Faculty of Policy Management and the Graduate School of Media and Governance of Keio University, Japan. With collaborate with his students, Dr. Iba has created many pattern languages concerning human actions, including learning, presentations, collaboration, education, entrepreneurship, and beauty. He received a Ph.D. in Media and Governance from Keio University in 2003, and continued as a visiting scholar at the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence, 2009-2010. He has authored many academic books such as the bestselling "Introduction to Complex Systems: An Adventure to the Frontier of Knowledge" (1998, in Japanese), and many others including "Pattern Languages" (2013, in Japanese), "Presentation Patterns" (2013, in Japanese, received the GOOD DESIGN AWARD 2013), "Social Systems Theory" (2011, in Japanese), "Learning Patterns" (2014), "Presentation Patterns" (2014), and "Collaboration Patterns" (2014).