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Richard has a bachelor's degree from MIT in artificial intelligence software programming, with two years of creative writing at Wellesley College (under Robert Pinsky, W. H. Auden, Lillian Hellman, and…
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Richard has a bachelor's degree from MIT in artificial intelligence software programming, with two years of creative writing at Wellesley College (under Robert Pinsky, W. H. Auden, Lillian Hellman, and Ray Bradbury), three graduate degrees from the University of Michigan (MA in web communities, MA in Chinese/Japanese business, PHD in total quality research processes). His first job was visiting literally the 2000 richest Americans for donations for an ecumenical religious order running an economic development project in the world's poorest 104 rural villages and urban neighborhoods. He set up mass workshop citizen-planning events in 42 Taiwanese, Japanese, Korean towns and companies; created and led an 800 person 10 day event in Hokkaido, Japan that created, fully legalized, and staffed 16 venture technology businesses; tripled permanently per capita incomes in Korea's poorest 20 villages, set up social art automatons of 2000 students on every square meter of football stadiums drawing assigned shapes/colors on their square of canvas then moving left, right, up or down, to the beat of drummers. He won awards and launched venture technology businesses for two companies while in Japan (Sekisui Chemical, and Panasonic), two companies while in Europe (N. V. Philips, and Thompson Paris), and three companies while in the USA (EDS, Coopers & Lybrand Consultants, and Xerox PARC). His first academic job was Lecturer in Statistics and Quality Management, the Grad School of Business, the University of Chicago. He has since taught at Temple University's Exec MBA Program, Kansai Gaidai's International Business School, Kwansei Gakuin's Policy Studies School, and Japan's top private university, Keio University's Grad School of System Design and Management where he now is Professor of Design, Creativity, and Innovation. He has two software ventures still operating in Silicon Valley California. He is a De Tao Master of Design at De Tao Masters Academy, with his Imagined Solutions Studio opening in Shanghai, September 2012.
At MIT he studied zazen with Daisetzu Suzuki, Gary Snyder, Nathan Sivin, and Huston Smith. In Japan he studied Japanese aesthetics—kabuki and noh, zen mujo and muge, Yoshiwara culture, Okinawa culture, fukansei, Zeami dramatics, Kodo life drummings, ukiyo, yugen, honshitsu, miyabi, en, shibui, ushin, seizui, iki, aware, wabi and sabi, social connectionism, muda reduction, biosense, kansei, and the nine manga traditions, while teaching 256 non-linear character and story development dynamics for Nintendo gamers. Now he works in China monthly, re-articulating more-ancient-than-Japan Chinese aesthetics in internet, gaming, and smartphone forms.
He currently is designing a new high school system in China, based on Weston Schools where MIT/Harvard faculty kids go to school, enhanced by Xerox PARC latest technologies. He also is helping 3 technology parks in China match Silicon Valley metrics of density of person and idea interaction and high social index levels of workplace, job, and career design. He has two companies---Dimensions of Difference Designs, that handles fashion, interface, product design---and Knowledge Epitome, that handles school system and Silicon Valley Replication designs. His fashion lines—Kimono SportFormals and Everyday Celebrity---are being released in China in 2012. He is the author of 18 books and 100+ academic articles, most available at http://independent.academia.edu/RichardTaborGreene/About and http://detaoma.com/studio/home/216 He likes long distance cycling, 4D photography, fashion design, composing books, movies, and videos. He designs:
MICRO Design:
meetings, events, interfaces, comedies, fashions
MESO Design:
products, cultures, technologies, software
MACRO Design:
education systems, Silicon Valley replications
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