JSPS Transformative Area (A) 2025-2029 Face-body design: deepening and sublimatingface-body based on practical,
empirical and constructive research

We aim to design the face and body of the future by expanding, deviating from, deepening, and sublimating traditional face-body studies.

This effort is grounded in three key approach fields. We introduce [Practice], which integrates the face and body through artistic and performative expressions, encouraging exploration beyond conventional frameworks (expansion/deviation), and propose [Demonstrative Research], focusing on the analysis and theorization of interoception and deep bodily sensations for emotional connections among individuals (deepening/sublimation), and adopt a constructive approach [Designing] using body science and robotics to design the face and body of future humans and artificial entities (sublimation/evolution).

We move beyond existing academic boundaries and establish a new interdisciplinary framework encompassing these three fields. We consider the rapid transformation of real face-body relationships driven by technological advancements and aim to foresee and support future forms of interpersonal interaction that transcend biological limitations by observing diverse face-body relationships across regions, age groups, and people with disabilities.

Our ambition is to design a future society where the face and body are not sources of discrimination or suffering, but rather mediums for inclusive and empathetic expression. By simulating interoception as a body-brain network underpinning deep sensation, we explore new configurations of face-body interactions that merge biological and artificial perspectives.

Ultimately, this project seeks to eliminate the distortions imposed on faces and bodies in contemporary society—such as prejudice, pain, and exclusion—by proposing a new vision of co-existence between humans and artificial entities toward a future in which the face-body serves as a platform for ethical development and inclusive education. Through this, we hope to foster a society that acknowledges embodied diversity, removes discriminatory structures, and reduces individual suffering, particularly by leveraging the transformative potential of arts and performance.