Design Rationale2026-08-175 min read
Why Oiso, an hour outside Tokyo
We put the campus an hour from Tokyo on purpose. What residential education buys, what it costs, and why a convenient address was the wrong optimization.
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We think in public about our design decisions and their reasons. Transparency of thought is part of an academic implementation hub's work.
Governance2026-07-146 min read
Between a commercial seminar and an academic institution
Professors rarely say it out loud, but they think it: is this just another seminar business? A fair question, best answered with machinery rather than adjectives.
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Why medical-dental collaboration should start with education
The evidence for oral-systemic care is old news. Why it never became routine practice, and what that says about where to start.
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What XR actually changes in medical education
Immersion is not a KPI. What simulation is actually good for, and the one rule we apply before using it.
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Why an early-stage project starts with transparency
A new institution has no track record to show. It can still show exactly what is decided and what is not.
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