Director’s
Profile

Dominique Chen

Information Studies Researcher｜Professor, Faculty of Letters, Arts and Sciences, Waseda University

Born in 1981. Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Informatics. He has worked as a researcher at NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC] and co-founder of Dividual, Inc. before taking his current post. His research focuses on the relationship between technology, humans, and more-than-human worlds, as well as digital wellbeing. He is the author of many books, including "Japanese Modern Literature as Commons" (East Press) and “Words to Create the Future: To Connect our Misunderstandings” (Shinchosha). He has also translated “Positive Computing: Technology for Wellbeing and Human Potential” (MIT Press) and edited "To Create Our Well-Being: Philosophy, Practices, and Technologies" (both published by BNN Shinsha).

*Titles and profiles are those at the time of the director’s tenure

Related Themes

• 2022Design to generate “our” well-being
• 2017Development of Social Infrastructure
• 2016Technology and Information

Related Articles

• Dominique Chen Director’s Message “Design to generate ‘our’ well-being” Respect for “me” and collaboration between “us”: designing for compatibility between these two 2023.03.09SymbiosisInformation
• Considering "Design to generate 'our' well-being" How is a sense of "we" expanded?—Yamakoshi Public Meeting Haruka Takeuchi × Dominique Chen 2023.02.02
• Special Interview Dominique Chen × Yuma Harada on Design Starting from “Misunderstanding”2021.02.22
• Director’s messageSocial EpigeneticsDominique Chen2017.12.31Social Infrastructure
• Director’s messageCybernetic loop of human and technology in the information societyDominique Chen2016.12.31TechnologyInformation