Akari-Lisa Ishii conveys new light trends around the world with an innovative touch imbued with Japanese culture, French spirit and international experiences.
Her skills and her passion of the light are also expressed in sharing: publication of books, numerous conferences, teaching, product design...
JURYS & COMITEES
| 2025 | Jury of product selection for Architect@Work fair, Paris |
| 2024 - 2025 | Vice-president of French Lighting Designers Association (ACE) |
| 2023 - 2024 | Jury of the MONDO Awards |
| 2023 | Member of Architectural Culture Review Committee, Agency for Cultural Affairs of Japan |
| 2022 - Auj | Member of House of Japanese Culture in Paris Orientation Council |
| 2022 - 2023 | Committee Member of French Lighting Designers Association (ACE) |
| 2022 | Jury of the JTSE Awards |
| 2020 - Now | Member of EU-Japan Business Round Table |
| 2015 - Now | Member of Committee for reflection on tourisme promotion of Tokyo |
| 2017 - 2020 | Member of the Adviser Committee of the Tokyo Urban Lighting Plan |
| 2020 | Jury of the Lighting Design Awards |
| 2016 - 2019 | Member of Brand Advisory Group, 2020 Tokyo Olympic |
| 2019 | Personnality for the promotion of corneal donation (EYE bank) |
| 2017 - 2018 | Member of the Mascot and Brand Committee of the Olympic & Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020 |
| 2017 - 2018 | Member of the Adviser Committee of the Tokyo Channel Lighting Plan |
| 2018 | Paper Review Committee for Professional Lighting Design Convention Singapore |
| 2017 | Jury of the Fine Arts Competition for the 60th Anniversary of the Colbert Committee, Japan |
| 2017 | Jury of the light-up subsidiary competition by the City of Tokyo |
| 2017 | Jury of the Akari Competition by Japanese Institute of Architects |
| 2001 - 2013 | Jury of competition “Mino-Washi Akari Art” |
| 2012 | Jury of Digital Art Festival & Year-End-Festival, Enghien Art Center |
| 2009 | Academic committee for the international symposium “Luminous Architecture in the 20th century” |
| 2008 | Jury of award “City, People, Light” |
| 2006 | Exterior jury for an architecture diploma at Fines-Arts School in Paris |
CONFERENCES & TEACHING
| 2025 | Carpe Diem, Japan Inter-design Forum, Tokyo |
| 2024 | Focales fair, Paris |
| 2023 | EU-Japan Business Round Table, Brussels |
| 2023 | Urban Organic Lab, Japan Inter-design Forum, Tokyo |
| 2023 | Transformation byy Zumtobel, Paris |
| 2023 | Master class in light culture, National School of Architecture and Landscape Design, Lille |
| 2023 | International Conference on Electronics Packaging, Kumamoto |
| 2023 | Zhurong Awards Conference |
| 2023 | Zmorda Space, Tunis |
| 2023 | National School of Architecture and Urbanism, Tunis |
| 2023 | Culture Center, Tunis |
| 2022 | VLD Community |
| 2022 | Woman in Lighting entertainement sessions |
| 2022-2024 | Material & Light fair, Paris |
| 2021 | National Superior School of Architecture and andscape, Lille, Paris |
| 2021 | Light4Heath |
| 2021 | Autograf - School of upcoming designers |
| 2020 | [d]arc room livestream « 4-dimentional Inspirations » |
| 2014 - 2024 | Maison & Objet, Paris (conferences & workshops) |
| 2019 | Material & Light fair, Paris |
| 2019 | Amical Lunch, Franco-Japanese Society of Osaka |
| 2019 | Meeting of the artist-ambassadors of the Lyon Festival of Lights |
| 2019 | The Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry in France |
| 2019 | Congress of French-Japanese Business Club, Tokyo |
| 2019 | JSPS All Alumni Meeting “Japan-Finland 100 years/JSPS Alumni Club in Finland 10-year Anniversary Seminar” |
| 2018 | Franco-Japanese Institute, Tokyo |
| 2018 | Committee of the Anti-Aging Medical Academy, Osaka |
| 2018 | Professional Lighting Design Convention Singapour |
| 2018 | Mori Foundation Innovative City Forum 2018 pre-seminar, Tokyo |
| 2018 | LVMH Lighting Café |
| 2017 | Convention CEREBA Japan (speaker & organizational consulting) |
| 2017 | Professional Lighting Design Convention Paris (speaker & workshop moderator) |
| 2015 - 2016 | OPTIS User Conference, Tokyo |
| 2016 | Round table PLDC, Light+Building, Francfort |
| 2016 | « Cool Japan », UNESCO, Paris |
| 2016 | Seminar « L’Architecture lumineuse au XXe siècle », Paris School of Architecture |
| 2016 | Round table EquipHotel |
| 2015 | Japan Association of Artists Creftsmen and Architects, Tokyo |
| 2015 | Asia Lighting Art Symposium, Guanzhu |
| 2015 | LIDEE Special Conference, Life Engineering Study, Tokyo |
| 2014 | JTB Culture Seminer, Okinawa |
| 2012 | World Lighting Fair, Tokyo |
| 2011 | Architect@work, Paris |
| 2010 | Japan Culture Design Forum, Tokyo |
| 2010 | Japan Garden Association, Tokyo |
| 2010 | World Lighting Fair, Yokohama |
| 2010 | Shibuya Colloquium, Tokyo |
| 2010 | The Tokyo University, Tokyo |
| 2009 | Euroluce, Milan |
| 2008 | LED Expo, Shanghai |
| 2008 | Chamber of Commerce, Hiroshima |
| 2008 | Siel Fair, Paris |
| 2008 | Rencontres de Luci, Lyon |
| 2008 | Stockholm Lighting Days |
| 2007 | Euroluce, Milan |
| 2007 | Light Middle East, Dubai |
| 2007 | L’Oréal Lux – International Design Day, Paris |
| 2007 | Illuminating Engineering Society, Japon |
| 2007 | Düs-illuminated, Düsseldorf |
| 2006 | SCAU office, Paris |
| 2006 | Tokyo Institut of Technology |
| 2006 | International Light Fair, Las Vegas |
| 2006 | Ohita Prefecture University of Fine Art Culture |
| 2002 - 2005 | Journada di Lus, IES Mexico |
| 2003 - 2004 | Architecture Reform Renewal Conversion Exhibition, Tokyo |
| 2004 | World Lighting Fair, Yokohama |
| 2002 | Zentrum für Internationale Lichtkunst, Unna |
| 2002 | Elec 2002 Light Première, Paris |
| 2001 | Intel Fair, Milan |
| 2000 | International Light Fair, New York |