Takashi Iba is a Professor at the Faculty of Policy Management, Keio University. He received a PhD in Media and Governance from Keio University and is the president of CreativeShift Inc., a board member of The Hillside Group, and a board member of MITSUKARU+WAKARU. He is now creating and launching the following new academic areas: studies on creative practices, philosophy of creation, and future sociology. Dr Iba created numerous pattern languages related to creative human actions in collaboration with his students: learning patterns, presentation patterns, collaboration patterns, words for a journey, project design patterns, etc. He also wrote academic books in Japanese, such as Pattern Language, Creative Learning, Social Systems Theory, Generator, and Introduction to Complex Systems.