Koichi Kasahara is currently an Associate Professor of Art Education at Tokyo Gakugei University. He has published articles in international publications and co-edited the book A/r/tography: A Methodology of Living Inquiry as Artist/Researcher/Teacher (in Japanese, Book Way, 2019). He is the current chair of the International Society of Education Through Art (InSEA) Asia Regional Council. Kasahara has extensive experience as a museum curator and lecturer of Art Education at the Kyoto University of Art and Design and Fukouka University of Education.

Akihisa Komuro Assistant Professor (Fixed-term), Tokyo Kasei University. He graduated from the Graduate School of Education at Tokyo Gakugei University. He formerly worked as a specialized art education teacher at public elementary schools and a lecturer at Chubu Gakuin College. Has been in the current position since 2024. Akihisa specializes in practical and qualitative research on children’s creative activities.

After working at a public art museum and serving as a Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteer (dispatched to East Timor), Saki Yakabe has been involved with a Japanese NGO in Cambodia since 2014. She has served as a project manager for arts education support initiatives, local representative, and board member (current position). Returning to Japan in 2022, she is now enrolled in the Master’s Program at the Graduate School of Education, Tokyo Gakugei University. Her research focuses on social transformation through arts-based initiatives by NGOs in the field of international development.

Mako Fukuda is a postgraduate student in the Master of Professional Education, specialising in art education at the Graduate School of Teacher Education, Tokyo Gakugei University. She is also a practicing art teacher at TGU International Secondary School and is passionate about professional development within the teaching profession.

Naoko Kojima is a doctoral candidate specialising in art education at the Graduate School of Teacher Education, Tokyo Gakugei University. She is a lecturer at Tokoha University Junior College and is passionate about sculpture-making.

Tin Pham Nguyen's research interests include the sociology of education, diversity, careers, employability, digital literacies, and technologies within education. He is a researcher at Tokyo Gakugei University and a Learning Designer at the Faculty of Education, University of Melbourne. He has co-authored papers published in the British Journal of Education Studies, Research Papers in Education, the Australian Educational Researcher, and the Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association.

Anastasia is a Lecturer in Architecture at Michael Graves College, School of Public Architecture at Wenzhou-Kean University, and an architect-engineer (NTUA 2018) with a PhD from the Tokyo Institute of Technology (2019–2024) as a MEXT Scholar. Her forthcoming book, tentatively titled Building Conversations: Japanese Architectural Fieldwork as Discourse, explores the discursive model of fieldwork in Japanese architecture, highlighting how architects construct perspectives on the built environment through observation, drawing, and embodied practices rather than language. Her research examines interdisciplinary collaborations between architects, ethnographers, artists, and historians, fostering shifts away from rigid disciplinary approaches, and her design practice critically addresses barriers to sustainable and equitable practices in architecture. Recognized as a practitioner and curator through international competition awards, Anastasia also leads digital embodiment platforms for underrepresented communities in Japan through Interlab Japan and globally as an organizer for DocTalks, showcasing her dedication to both practice and academic community-building.