Hi, I am Rio!
Born in Tokyo, with a chapter spent in Sydney, and now based in Copenhagen.

I dare to think differently, stay endlessly curious, and love turning complexity into solutions that create positive change in the real world.

Play-ful

CIRCULAR ECONOMY MAKE TOOLS MEANINGFUL ECOSYSTEM Social Good PEOPLE

What I can offer

Systemic Thinking

Designing Co-Design Workshop services

Strategic Design

Strategic Design services

Qualitative Research

Qualitative Research services

Co-Design Workshop

Designing Co-Design Workshop services

Digital & Visualization

Facilitation services

Design Future

Creative Direction & Production (Graphic and Video) services

Creative Direction

Creative Direction & Production (Graphic and Video) services

Works

Project timeline for IKEA workshop series shown on a planning board.

How Can Individual Action Drive Societal and Systemic Change? From IKEA Loyalty Member to EU Policy.

SYSTEMIC / IKEA
design fiction movie

What if Copenhagen in 2050 were fully based on a circular economy? / Design Fiction

FUTURE / IKEA
IKEA workshop using metaphor cards to explore patient experiences.

A Genie Can Grant Your Wishes! What Three Things Would You Change to Create a Better World?

CO-DESIGN / IKEA
Køge Hospital project visualizing the cancer care pathway.

How might we can gently push the patients after the cancer pathway and move forward thier life?

PROJECT / Køge Hospital
Root cause mapping exercise with post-it notes and string connections.

What are the root causes and leveraging opportunity area?

QUALITATIVE RESEARCH / IKEA
NVivo screenshot showing qualitative coding for cancer survivors.

What are the main themes for life after the cancer?

QUALITATIVE RESEARCH / Koge Hospital
Make tool session with LEGO bricks for ideation and storytelling.

(Coming Soon)Ideal future

CO-DESIGN / IKEA
Customer value constellation and storyboard for a university canteen project.

(Coming Soon) Remeal

VISUALIZATION / Aarborg Univeristy Canteen
More than human

(Coming Soon)More Than Human Design

LEARNING
Manuefest 2025 April ver

(Coming Soon) Manifest April 2025

LEARN

A Professional with
4 Years of Experience

I am currently studying Service Systems Design at Aalborg University in Copenhagen. Strong competence in identifying patterns and synthesizing insights into holistic, systems-oriented and future to drive meaningful change.

Besides studying I am working as a student assistant in brand and marketing at Aquaporin. There, I in charge of video production and creative content, and also act as an internal consultant, initiating service design projects including defining the problem space myself.

Previously, I worked as a web designer at a digital agency in Tokyo, and in B2B sales at a travel agency. My bachelor's degree in tourism focused on community revitalization. While service design is a new field for me, my past experiences are deeply connected.

Work

  • 2024 - Present
    Student Assistant, Brand and Marketing at Aquaporin
  • 2021 - 2024
    Web Designer at E-bird (Digital Agency)
  • 2020 - 2020
    Digital Marketing Assistant at Aloft Tokyo
  • 2019 - 2019
    B2B Sales and Operation at Keio Travel Agency

Education

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