Chiaki Hayashi

Graduated from Waseda University School of Commerce and Boston University Graduate School majoring in Journalism. After working at Kao Corporation, Hayashi founded Loftwork in 2000. After retiring, she established Q0, Inc. on September 9, 2022 with the aim of “creating a new relationship between rural areas and cities”. Based in Hokkaido, Akita, and other regions, the company plans and implements collaborations and projects with local businesses and creative leaders, aiming to create designs for “inherited regions” that will represent the times. Hayashi is a member of the Good Design Awards Screening Committee, METI’s Industrial Structure Council Manufacturing Industry Subcommittee “Study Group on Competitiveness and Design”, and a chairman of Hidakuma that aims to up-cycle the resources into a form of regional value through the utilization of digital fabrication and technology.