Representative

代表理事

片山 弘子

Katayama Hiroko

　NPO法人グローバル・エコビレッジ・ネットワーク・GEN-Japan代表理事。Global Ecovillage Network（GEN）のAmbassador、オセアニア・アジア地域のWisdom Keeper。人と自然、人と人が調和し、安心してつながれるコミュニティが社会の基盤となり、そのつながりが世界の平和にもつながると考え、活動を続けている。
　GEN-Japan設立から約10年、国内外のエコビレッジや地域づくりの実践をつなぎ、Gaia Educationなどを通じて持続可能な地域を育てる学びの場をつくってきた。2026年から研究者と実践者が協力し、成功だけでなく失敗からも学び、コミュニティづくりの実践知を蓄積・共有する学会の設立や国内のネットワークづくりをメンバーの一人として参画。広島大学教育学部卒業、早稲田大学文学研究科で市民的公共性と対話の場づくりを研究。

 Representative Director of GEN-Japan, a specified non-profit organization (NPO) representing the Global Ecovillage Network. Serving as a Global Ecovillage Network (GEN) Ambassador and Wisdom Keeper for the Oceania and Asia regions. Dedicated to the belief that communities where humans and nature, as well as people and people, live in harmony and connect securely serve as the foundation of society, and that these connections ultimately lead to world peace.

 For approximately 10 years since the establishment of GEN-Japan, has connected practices in ecovillage and community building both domestically and internationally, and created learning spaces to foster sustainable communities through programs such as Gaia Education. Participating as a member to establish an academic society and build a domestic network starting in 2026, where researchers and practitioners collaborate to learn from both successes and failures, and to accumulate and share practical knowledge in community building. Graduated from the Faculty of Education at Hiroshima University and studied civic publicness and the creation of dialogue spaces in the Graduate School of Letters at Waseda University.

Vice representative

副代表理事

空閑 厚樹

Kuga Atsuki

　立教大学コミュニティ福祉学部教員。持続可能なコミュニティ実践の観点から生命倫理を研究している。一般に生命倫理は高度な医療実践をめぐる倫理的課題を論じるものとして考えられているが、生命倫理の「生命」には生活やライフスタイルも含まれていることを踏まえ、現代の産業化された社会におけるライフスタイルを生命倫理の課題として検討している。
　第二期EDE（エコビレッジ・デザイン・エデュケーション）運営委員。現在、埼玉県小川町の地域活性化活動に取り組んでいる。

 Faculty member at the College of Community and Human Services, Rikkyo University. My research focuses on bioethics from the perspective of sustainable community practices. While bioethics is generally considered to address ethical issues surrounding advanced medical practices, I examine contemporary lifestyles in industrialized society as a bioethical challenge, based on the understanding that the "life" in bioethics encompasses daily living and lifestyles.

I serve as an executive committee member for the second-term EDE (Ecovillage Design Education) and am currently engaged in community revitalization activities in Ogawa Town, Saitama Prefecture.

Vice representative

副代表理事

小森 伸一

Komori Shinichi

国立大学 東京学芸大学の教員をしています（准教授／学長補佐：2017年現在）。私の大学は教員養成大学となりますので軸となる専門は教育（学）となります。その中でも主な研究分野は、ホリスティック理論及びホリスティック教育を基盤とした野外環境教育、サステイナビリティ教育、体験学です。これらは全て、直接体験を通じた根本的に実践的な学びであり学問となります。特に最近では、「幸福学」及びその下支えとなっている研究分野の「ポジティブ心理学」から出されている成果を軸にして上記の研究領域について探求しています。

I associate professor/adviser to the president, Ph.D, am teaching at Tokyo Gakugei University (TGU, national university), which is a teacher’s college in Japan; therefore, my major at the basis is education. The main study field is about “outdoor-environmental education,” “sustainability education,” and “experience study” based on holistic theory and holistic education, which are all fundamentally practical learning and study through firsthand experience. Recently, I, in particular, explore the above-mentioned area in terms of the outcomes from “happiness study” and also “positive psychology” supporting the knowledge.

 I had graduated from the undergraduate and master courses at TGU (B.Ed. & M.Ed.) and then went to Canada to study continuously. I had spent about two and half years at University of Saskatchewan (second “M.Ed” obtained) and then stayed for seven years at the University of British Columbia (“Ph.D” obtained). Being linked by fate, after that, have been teaching at TGU, my old school, since April in 2008. Thinking about such long-terms of school life, I might be called as an academic traveler, or academic gypsy, in a sense.
 Currently, I am no longer such a gypsy due to working by full-time at the university。On the other hand, I want to be always a “seeker/educator in action” to be able to contribute to achieving sustainable society/living based on persistent well-being for individuals and groups and on holistic learning/education.

Vice representative

副代表理事

熊倉 敬聡

Kumakura Takaaki

　東京都出身。北海道・美瑛町在住。パリ第７大学博士課程修了（文学博士）。慶應義塾大学教授、京都芸術大学教授を経て現在、芸術文化観光専門職大学特任教授。
　フランス文学・思想を研究後、コンテンポラリー・アートやダンスに関する研究・批評・実践等を行う。大学を地域・社会へと開く新しい学び場「三田の家」、社会変革の“道場”こと「Impact Hub Kyoto」などの立ち上げ・運営に携わる。主な著作に『GEIDO論』、『藝術2.0』（以上春秋社）、『瞑想とギフトエコノミー』（サンガ）、『汎瞑想』、『美学特殊C』、『脱芸術／脱資本主義論』（以上慶應義塾大学出版会）。編著に『黒板とワイン――もう一つの学び場「三田の家」』（望月良一他との共編）、『女？日本？美？』（千野香織との共編）（以上、慶應義塾大学出版会）、『practica1 セルフ・エデュケーション時代』（川俣正、ニコラス・ペーリーとの共編、フィルムアート社）などがある。

Born in Tokyo and currently residing in Biei, Hokkaido. Completed the doctoral program at Paris 7 University (Doctor of Literature). After serving as a professor at Keio University and Kyoto University of the Arts, is currently a specially appointed professor at the Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media / College of Arts and Tourism (or Arts and Tourism College). 

After researching French literature and thought, conducts research, criticism, and practice concerning contemporary art and dance. Has been involved in launching and managing new learning spaces that open universities to local communities and society, such as "Mita House" and "Impact Hub Kyoto," a "dojo" for social change. Major publications include Geido-ron, Geijutsu 2.0 (both from Shunjusha), Meiso to Gift Economy (Sanga), Pan-meiso, Bigaku Tokushu C, and Datsugeijutsu / Datsushihonshugiron (all from Keio University Press). Co-edited works include Kokuban to Wain: Mo Hitotsu no Manabiba "Mita House" (co-edited with Ryoichi Mochizuki et al.) and Onna? Nihon? Bi? (co-edited with Kaori Chino) (both from Keio University Press), as well as practica1 Self Education Jidai (co-edited with Tadashi Kawamata and Nicolas Pelzer, Film Art Inc.), among others.