As a part of the course of study, MAU invites specialists active in Japan and abroad in their respective fields, to give lectures and hold critiques as visiting professors. To date prominent artists and designers have conducted numerous lectures, critiques, open symposiums, etc., on a wide variety of topics.
The visiting professor program also encompasses theme-based workshops, and experiments in collaborative art making and critiques.
Visiting Professors 2015
Kari Johannes Piippo
Finland / Graphic designer, Illustrator
- Period
- May 11th to 16th, 2015
Nicholas Rhodes
U.K. / Programme Director, Product Ceramic & Industrial Design at Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design, University of the Arts, London
- Period
- May 14th to 19th, 2015
Albano Afonso
Brazil / Visual artist
- Period
- June 22nd to 25th, 2015
Qu Feng Guo
China / Artist, Professor at Shanghai Theatre Academy
- Period
- June 25th to July 1st, 2015
Andrew Basile
U.S.A / President of Basile Creative Services, Creative director
- Period
- July 6th to 11th, 2015
Edward Allington
U.K. / Professor of Fine Art and Head of Graduate Sculpture, Slade School of Fine Art, University College London
Sophie Raikes
U.K. / Assistant Curator (Collections) at Henry Moore Institute
- Period
- July 13th to 18th, 2015
Sophie Krier
Luxembourg / Designer, University College Roosevelt 2015 Artist-in-residence
- Period
- September 14th to 19th, 2015
Michael Bielicky
Germany / Professor and Head of the Media Art Department at University of Arts and Design (HFG) Karlsruhe
- Period
- September 28th to October 3rd, 2015
Tadashi Kawamata
Japan (France) /Professor at Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris
- Period
- September 24th to 30th, 2015
Ian Woo
Singapore / Painter, Senior Lecturer at LASALLE College of the Arts
- Period
- November 2nd to 6th, 2015
Laurence Madrelle
France / Director of LM communiquer
- Period
- November 2nd to 7th, 2015
Enric Massip Bosch
Spain / Architect, Director of EMBA_ESTUDI MASSIP-BOSCH ARQUITECTES
Associate Professor, Design Department at Polytechnic University of Catalonia-Barcelona TECH
- Period
- November 9th to 13th, 2015
Roberto Feo
U.K., Spain (U.K.) / Professor, Department of Design at Goldsmiths, University in London
Lecturer, the Design Products Department at The Royal College of Art in London
Rosario Hurtado
U.K., Spain (U.K.) / Professor, Space and Communications at HEAD-Geneve
Lecturer, Department of Design at Goldsmiths, University in London
- Period
- November 16th to 21st, 2015
Masayoshi Yamada
Japan (France) / Sculptor
- Period
- December 7th to 12th, 2015