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株式会社環境デザイン機構代表取締役

小学校で造船技師に憧れ、大学で環境設計を学ぶ。人生で初めて飛行機に乗ったのがカナダ行き。「井の中の蛙、大海を知った苦しみ」を味わい、「海外で働く！」と叫び続ける。夢が叶い30歳代はアメリカでバイク、スノーモービル、車など工業デザインに携わり、再度、UCLAの大学院で都市計画と建築を学ぶ。帰国後事務所を立ち上げ、とにかく、毎日異なった問題にデザインで解決を与えて行く。40haの新しい都市づくりから、幼稚園の砂場のデザインまで、縄文弥生時代の遺跡再生から将来の子どもの環境デザインまで幅広く手がけ、趣味は「仕事」。現在、能古島で2回目の子育て。娘を能古小学校へ入れる、その理由だけで島に移住。

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Urban Designer, Architect, KANKYO Design KIKOH, Representative Director

Toshihiro Sato is the president of Kankyo Design Kiko Inc. As a little boy, Toshiro wanted to be a naval architect. He earned his Bachelor of Science in Environmental Design at Kyushu Institute of Design (now Kyushu University). His experience abroad was in Canada, and it was there that he realized that up until then, he had been satisfied to judge things based on his narrow life experience, but would no longer do so--there was a wide world around him. Since that revelation, he longed to work overseas, and finally did so his 30s when he got a job as a motorcycle, snowmobile, and car designer in the U.S. while taking courses in Architecture and City Planning at UCLA. After he returned to Japan, Toshiro started his own company and tackled all kinds of problems with design. Soon, "work" became his hobby. Today he is involved in a variety of projects, including city plannning for over 40 hectacres of land, designing a new sandpit for a kindergarten, rebuilding historic sites, and designing for the evironment and future generations. Toshiro and his family now live on Nokonoshima Island, to which they moved so his daughter could attend Noko Elementary School.

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