open up people's futures.
What we work on is not "changing people," but changing "the environment that lets people take a step forward."
Even with the will to do something, it's hard to take that first step without people around you who share your energy. Even after taking on a challenge, it becomes exhausting to keep going without an atmosphere that affirms it. A "place" naturally reshapes a person's posture, their words, and the paths they choose.
We dissolve the boundaries between city, data, systems, and space, designing at the scale of an entire town an environment in which people's options naturally expand.
A team of ten,
hardware and software in equal parts.
Specialists in architecture and urban development sit alongside technology experts — some with backgrounds at global IT companies — in roughly equal numbers across the team. That balance is what lets us carry a project from planning through to implementation entirely in-house.
With a background in urban-planning research, he works across analysis, strategic design, spatial design, and product development. He also lectures at university, advises local governments, and serves as Representative Director of Regenerative Q (a general incorporated association).
Read the area. Change the point.
We capture an entire area through data, then physically transform the one specific space that data reveals. Repeating this cycle builds change in the city that people can actually feel.
Putting City Data to Work
We layer data on foot traffic, storefronts, and real estate to make an area's potential visible. Working at the scale of the whole area, we point toward where value can be created, building a shared data foundation that makes people want to take the leap and try something new.
Activating Real Estate
For underused real estate and vacant spaces, we handle everything from design through to management and operation. We give each individual place its own story and purpose, building up change in the city that people can actually feel.
We sit at the same table
as specialists who shape cities.
Awards
- ACADEMICCity Planning Institute of Japan, Kyushu Branch (a public interest incorporated association) Grand Prize
- AWARDSocial X Acceleration powered by MUFG Grand Prize
- AWARDTOKYO SUTEAM DEMO DAY 2025 Partner Enterprise Award (Tokyo Tatemono Co., Ltd.)
- AWARDTokyo Metropolitan Government TOKYO SUTEAM Social X Acceleration, 2nd Cohort Grand Prize
- AWARDKyushu University Ideas & Proposals Contest for Solving Social Issues 2023 Encouragement Award
Talks & Media
- SEMINARHosted by Nikken Sekkei: "NIKKEN NEXT MISSION 3rd SEMINAR | What Is a Regenerative City in 2050?"
- SEMINARHosted by Nikken Sekkei and others: "International City-to-City Collaboration that Accelerates Innovation"
- SESSIONHosted by UR Urban Renaissance Agency: TABLE SESSION TENJIN Vol.3, "The Look and Feel of the Digital City"
- EXPOExpo 2025 Osaka, Blueprint for Future Cities 2050, Agenda 2025 Co-Creation Program
- REPORTFeatured in the Kanto Bureau of Economy, Trade and Industry's Case Studies of Zebra Companies and Support Hubs
- SEMINARHosted by The University of Kitakyushu: The Potential of "Kitakyushu, an Innovation-Generating City" — Advanced Case Studies from the UK
- TALKAmbitions FUKUOKA Vol.3: "The City's Inherited DNA — Innovation City Fukuoka's Past, Present, and Future"
- TALKDialogue with the President of Kyushu University: "How Young Researchers See the World"
- SEMINARHosted by the Sapporo Chamber of Commerce and Industry: "2nd Session — Collective Intelligence that Drives the Vision for the City Center"
Our Journey So Far
- 2023.09Urbanix Co., Ltd. foundedFounded in Fukuoka City as a Kyushu University venture
- 2023Kyushu University Ideas & Proposals Contest for Solving Social Issues 2023 — Encouragement Award
- 2024.10Tokyo Metropolitan Government TOKYO SUTEAM Social X Acceleration, 2nd Cohort — Grand PrizeBegan work toward forming public–private co-creation pilot projects
- 2025.04Social X Acceleration powered by MUFG — Grand Prize
- 2025TOKYO SUTEAM DEMO DAY 2025 — Partner Enterprise Award (Tokyo Tatemono Co., Ltd.)
- 2026.04Relocated head office to FUKUOKA NORTH PORTMoved head-office functions into a co-creation hub we plan, design, and operate ourselves
- 2026.04Began Placebook pilotStarted piloting a store-matching platform together with multiple local governments
Urbanix Co., Ltd.
- Company NameUrbanix Co., Ltd. (URBANIX株式会社)
- RepresentativeCEO Tomokazu Iwabuchi
- FoundedSeptember 2023
- Address2F KBC Kaikan, 1-1-34 Nagahama, Chuo-ku, Fukuoka, Japan (inside FUKUOKA NORTH PORT)
- Business AreasResearch (urban survey & analysis) / Produce (design) / Consulting (urban strategy, international city-to-city collaboration support, industry–academia collaboration support) / Product (development & operation of Placebook)
- OriginA Kyushu University venture