Kenta Kondo is a hands-on design futurist at JITABATA studio. Combining strategic foresight, design, and mechanical engineering, he creates fictional, yet functional, future narratives for public discourse. Prior to JITABATA studio, Kenta worked for IDEO Tokyo as a Senior Design Engineer where he designed future services, business strategy, and go-to-market products for multiple industries including mobility, robotics, furniture, energy, and healthcare. He currently lives in an experimental ecovillage where he splits his time between designing daydreams and rice-farming.