FOUNDERS

SHINGO POTIER DE LA MORANDIÈRE

Impact HUB Tokyo & ALL ARTS Foundation founder

Shingo is a serial entrepreneur, passionate about exploring the role of art in Human Society.

He spent the last 10 years experimenting the effect of arts, spatial design, systems thinking and sensing on business strategies and scaling innovation.

As a founder and thinker for the ALL ARTS Foundation, he will offer his systems thinking ability and also observation and sensing skills.

SHINO TSUCHIYA

Shino is a seasoned Social Innovator with over 20 years of experience, passionate about film making and discovering passions and expressions from innovators, entrepreneurs and artists.

After 10 years of entrepreneurship support, Shino is keen to start offering her experiences and skills to the artists community. As a founder and thinker for ALL ARTS Foundation, she will share her abilities to think, search, find, explore, and experiment, which she considers the most important elements for a life of an artist.

Impact HUB Tokyo & ALL ARTS Foundation founder

YUKO MISHIO

Yuko comes from an artistic family and has spent 5 years studying entrepreneurship and business management in 3 countries before joining Impact HUB Tokyo.

She believes that art and entrepreneurship are interconnected, in a way that allows anybody to express themselves no matter where they come from. She is committed to exploring and developing new ways to accelerate entrepreneurs and artists. As a founder and thinker for the ALL ARTS Foundation, she will offer her community building skills and programme design and implementation skills.

YUKARI WALKER-HALL

Yukari is passionate about interior and space design and the role in which our work and living environments can enhance our lives.

She has over 20 years experience working as a Space and Interior designer for both individual clients and large companies.

She also has a strong interest in community events and worked in a catering unit for art communities while living in Berlin.

Community Builder, Spacial Design at

Impact HUB Tokyo

ALL ARTS Foundation founder

Community Builder, Programme organizer at

Impact HUB Tokyo

ALL ARTS Foundation founder

THINKERS

Each Programme will be accompanied by 2-3 Thinkers. The main role of the thinkers is to engage the artists with thought leadership and mentorship. Thinker have been invited from various background, mostly thought our network of supporters. In addition to all the Founders listed above, we have the honor to work with the below Thinkers on our programmes.

TAMURA MASAMICHI

Tana Gallery Bookshelf founder & Echangeur 22 associate curator

Tamura is a Tokyo-based independent curator operating wilfully outside of institutional frameworks to explore potential relations between art and non-art from the latter standpoint.

Having self-taught philosophy and practised experimental music, he came to engage directly with artists through Bigakko in Kanda and has since 2010 managed his own experimental art space using a bookshelf in the anti-academy art school.

While actively collaborating with French artist-in-residence hub Echangeur22, he also probes latent possibilities in urban fabric as a doctoral student in architecture at Tokyo Tech and a co-chair of Ageing Well-being and Park Committee at World Urban Parks. As a thinker for All Arts Foundation programs, his complex background will facilitate conversation among artists and various participants.

NATSUKO HIGA

Representative Partner, Meshwork LLC. & Visiting Researcher, Research Institute for the Dynamics of Civilizations, Okayama University.

Natsuko is a cultural anthropologist specializing in economic anthropology and performance studies in the Pacific Island societies. Her research approach is characterized by her deep involvement in the local community and her ability to work with the locals.

Aside from doing academic research, she recently has founded a consulting firm which not only enables bottom-up understanding of diverse individuals but also supports people for breaking down conventional perspectives and gaining new ones.

In that context, she strongly believes that art, as well as anthropology, has power to change societies and go beyond existing frameworks.