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SDGs x Innovation Sparker
Living in a linear economy
We live in a ‘throw-away’ culture. From the clothes we wear to the containers we use, many of us throw away items after using them for just a short period of time. This linear practice of ‘take-make-waste’ is causing a multitude of problems around the world today. For example, plastic waste litters the land and pollutes the sea, endangering various kinds of animal life. Electronic waste releases toxic chemicals and contaminates our environments. Even food waste produces harmful greenhouse gasses and exacerbates the issue of climate change.
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Moving beyond waste
From linear to circular
The Zero Waste movement has been spreading rapidly throughout the world. As such, more and more people are adopting “zero waste lifestyles” as a way to break the unsustainable production and consumption patterns that characterize modern society.
What if we applied the concepts of circularity and zero waste to the context of Sophia University? What if we not only reduced but, more importantly, entirely eliminated the waste that we produce on campus?
Towards a circular campus
In our desire to spark innovative collaboration among stakeholders on the challenge of making Sophia University a more sustainable campus, we hosted the SDGs x Innovation Sparker on October 29th in English and 30th in Japanese. The event was made possible through the generous support of the Sophia Student Challenge Support Grant. Each day consisted of a keynote presentation, a Design Thinking workshop, and an idea competition that targeted the following Sustainable Development Goals:
Achieving zero waste at Sophia University
The Design Challenge
How might we circulate resources and prevent "waste" from being generated on Yotsuya Campus?
What We Did
Meet the Speakers & Judges
English Event: October 29th (Sat)
Kelsie Stewart
Loftwork Sustainable Executive /
FabCafe CCO (Chief Community Officer)
Kelsie joined Loftwork and FabCafe in 2017 and oversees the FabCafe Global network. In FabCafes across Asia, Europe and America, Kelsie strategizes and aligns Fab synergies to empower everyone to take the initiative to make and share their ideas with local and global communities. Kelsie is also the Tokyo organizer for the Global Goals Jam (GGJ), a two-day designathon and community which aims to create short term solutions for the Sustainable Development Goals. Kelsie has organized sustainability and design thinking workshops in Tokyo, Bangkok and Hong Kong.
Editor in Chief
Assistant Manager
Programming Editor
Magdalena Ionescu
Takeshi Ito
Morgan L. Thomas
Associate Professor
Reitaku University
Professor
Faculty of Liberal Arts
Associate Professor
Faculty of Science and Technology
Japanese Event: October 30th (Sun)
Takako Ohyama
Circular Design Consulting / Organizational and Community Development Towards Circularity
After working in New York for a newspaper company, managing overseas strategy in EdTech, and working in the editing & writing business, Ohyama returned to Japan in 2015. Realizing the need to address food safety and environmental issues in Japan, she began conducting various projects and workshops on food loss as part of the 100BANCH Project. Ohyama founded fog inc., a design consulting company in 2019. In October 2021, Ohyama opened "élab," a facility with a kitchen and a living lab in Tokyo as a way to practice circularity in daily life.
Agata Kapturkiewicz
Akemi Ori
Risa Takamatsu
Professor
Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies
Assistant Professor
Faculty of Economics
Staff Member
Office of Sustainability Promotion
Meet the Organizers
Faculty of Science and Technology
3rd Year
SPSF Faculty of Global Studies
3rd Year
SPSF Faculty of Global Studies
3rd Year
Faculty of
Liberal Arts
4th Year
SPSF Faculty of Global Studies
3rd Year
Creative Designer & Educator
Giuli Nagai
Mana Short
Maria Sjøblom Bjørndalen
Hana Saeki
Tomohiro Loeer
Haruka Oizumi
