Ryan Hu grew up in Shanghai, graduated in Comprehensive Design then worked for international advertising agencies experiencing how world-class creativity works in the commercial realm. Instead of staying in his comfort zone, he shifted his study focus and spent 2014 studying on the MA in Design Futures & Metadesign at Goldsmiths, University London. Using radical and reflective methodological approaches to design and writing, Ryan engages with changing cultures and collaborative design practice. Personal website: www.tobehvh.com
Shanghai, China
Rebecca is co-founder of FrontierJapan, an independent research and innovation agency based in Yokohama. Hailing from Sydney, Australia she has been in Japan for 15+ years and is fluent in as many aspects of the language and culture as the mind cares to imagine. Her particular areas of expertise are in commercial semiotics, cultural insight and breaking trends, although she also makes a pretty mean sushi roll and is up with the best of them on early 90’s J-pop hits.
Yokohama, Japan
Heta Trivedi, an Architect by profession and a Bharatanatyam dancer by passion, is currently pursuing her last semester in Masters in Arts Journalism (MAJ) at CEPT University, Ahmedabad. She is currently working on her thesis based on Semiotics and Architecture. The world of semiotics fascinates her and Heta enjoys analyzing different forms of visual art like architecture, advertisements, cinema etc. She was one of the participants covering the 12th International Jazz Festival at Capetown in 2011.
Ahmedabad, India