Satoshi Kose

Satoshi Kose is a professor emeritus, Shizuoka University of Art and Culture. He has been with the university from April 2003 to March 2014. He is specialized in the field of building use and safety, human factors, and universal design. Before joining the university, he has been with the Building Research Institute of Japan, where he worked for years to develop dwelling design guidelines toward the ageing society in Japan, and became among the first awardees of the Ron Mace Design for the 21st Century Award in June 2000. He was also given salutation during the Include 2003 Conference in London in March 2003. In 2010, he received an Excellent Paper Award at the International Conference for Universal Design in Hamamatsu. He was instrumental in hosting the first International Conference for Universal Design in Yokohama 2002, and subsequently served as the chair or vice-chair of Paper Review Committee in 2006, 2010, 2012, and in 2014.
He served as a resource person for JICA/APCD Project on Building Non-Handicapping Environments in the UN-ESCAP area between 2000 and 2004.
He has served as a member of Japanese mirror committee of ISO/TC59 from 1991, and the chair of ISO/TC59/SC03 from 2005.
He has published many papers on designing for the ageing society and universal design, including a chapter in the Universal Design Handbook from McGraw Hill (both 1st and 2nd edition).