Masayo Ave
- Founder, CEO
- Germany
- Member since 2021
Masayo Ave, born in 1962, is the founder of the design studio MasayoAve creation and SXD.Lab-Sensory Experience Design Laboratory, Berlin. The Japanese designer merges culture and disciplines and brings to bear her expertise in her sensory-based innovative design works and also in the field of design education. A graduate in architecture from Hosei University in Japan, her design career began in Milan in the early 1990s. Taking a sensorial and imaginative approach to basic design principles, her focus on material exploration and experimental design development brought her critical fame and many international design awards.
In the early 2000s, Masayo Ave also became involved in the field of design education. She has been appointed a professor at the Berlin University of the Arts, the Estonian Academy of Arts, Berlin International University of Applied Sciences and is currently a guest professor at Kanazawa College of Arts. As a prominent design teacher, she has also been dedicating her career to developing a new design education programme for both children and professionals that encompasses sensory-based design experiences.
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