After graduating from the Department of Industrial Design, Faculty of Art and Design at Kyushu Institute of Design, Professor GOTO joined GK Design Group Inc., where he worked on product design, signage, and interior design. At the Department of Socio-Cultural Environment Studies under the Graduate School of Frontier Sciences at the University of Tokyo, he later pursued research on the physical environment and human behavior outdoors. Some of his significant projects during his tenure include the design of the furniture and signage at the Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art and Marugame City Central Library, the project for developing a new design of the postal box, and the project for improved pedestrian signage in Sendai City.

NISHIDA earned his Master's degree from the Faculty of Fine Art at the Bergen Academy of Art and Design (now the Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design at the University of Bergen) in Norway. He has exhibited his works at various international venues, including the Gwangju Biennale (2014, Gwangju, South Korea) and the Sapporo International Art Festival (2014, Sapporo). After spending time in London and Taiwan as an artist, he stayed in Moscow from 2018 to 2019 as a fellow of the Pola Art Foundation's Overseas Research Program. NISHIDA is known for his environmental installations that create dialogues between landscapes and people. Additionally, he is involved in stage design, spatial design, installation art, and performance art.

Graduated with a major in Fine Arts from Tokyo Zokei University. After completing her graduate studies at the Tokyo University of the Arts, she has been active as an art coordinator and contemporary artist. NISHIO explores the relationships between places, objects, and people, focusing on their history, origins, transformations, and shifts in perception through her artwork and curation. Her projects include creating installations that combine video and objects, exploring “landscapes that exist only in memory,” curating exhibitions on “The art of leaving things behind” and establishing an art museum in a farming village to archive local life and culture.

After earning her Bachelor's and Master's degrees in the Field of Art Produce and Museum Studies at Joshibi University of Art and Design, SUZUKI completed her Doctorate in Fine Arts at the Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts. She co-founded and oversees DAÉN, a research and publishing project dedicated to documenting and critically examining contemporary art in Japan, with a focus on fostering critical discourse and building archival resources. Her research focuses on Japanese contemporary art of the 1990s, analyzing the artistic trends of the time while engaging in exhibition curation and critical writing. Her major curatorial projects include Inherited Esthetics (2023, MITSUKOSHI CONTEMPORARY GALLERY) and Research on Röntgen Kunstinstitut (2019, Radium von Roentgenwerke AG).