Creative Retreat · Tokyo Hinohara · 2026.11.14 · Day Trip / Overnight / Online
Design Thinking × Vibe Coding × Marketing Communication
A workshop for deep reflection and co-creation with AI: rediscover what you can do, what you truly want to do, and what people genuinely need.
Begin with Design Thinking to deepen the question, then move into AI BUILD TIME. Moving between THINK: Design Thinking, MAKE: Vibe Coding, and CONNECT: Marketing Communication, you will rethink your product and make something people can try.
Think, make, and connect. The overnight plan continues the work with user testing and a concrete next action the following morning.
Meet at the station and take the 10:35 bus toward Kazuma. From Sasahira, we walk to Village and expect to arrive around 11:15.
Through short introductions, name the theme in your work, service, or life that you want to pause and reconsider.
Close the laptop and use Design Thinking to find the overlap between what you can do, what you want to do, and what people need.
Share lunch in nature, then walk to loosen assumptions. Borrow new perspectives, reframe the question, and choose one idea to test in the afternoon.
Learn the basics of Vibe Coding and how to communicate with AI, then define a focused Build Brief.
With one-to-one support from three facilitators, turn your idea into a prototype you can touch and test.
Use Marketing Communication to decide who it is for, what to say, and how to bring it to them.
Share what you made and learned. The day-trip and online programs finish here.
Test each other’s prototypes and use real reactions to identify strengths and opportunities for improvement.
Organize the feedback and decide on one concrete step to take after returning to daily life.
After the session, you are free to depart or spend more time exploring the Hinohara area.
No specialist knowledge is required. Prepare these four things so you can start thinking and making as soon as the day begins.
Mac or Windows. Please bring your charger too.
Create accounts for the tools we share and confirm that you can sign in before the workshop.
Bring one point of friction in your current product, life, or side project, or something you want to rethink.
We will spend time walking and thinking in nature. Please wear clothes that are easy to move in.
Not to hand you the answer, but to deepen the question with you. When you are thinking, making, or unsure how to communicate it, three facilitators with different expertise will work alongside you.
Design graduate from the University of Tokyo. Recipient of the Good Design Award and SDGs Design International Awards. Member of the University of Tokyo × Sony Group Creative Futurists Initiative. Has designed and led more than 20 workshops in Japan and abroad.
Runs an IT company while working at a major corporation. Drawing on experience launching multiple personal products with Vibe Coding and turning them into real revenue, supports both implementation and business viability.
Computer science graduate from the University of Tokyo and founder of dazi.jp. Helps design the next step from validating and publishing an idea to communicating it so the product reaches real people.
Yes. No programming experience is required. After a short shared introduction, three facilitators provide one-to-one support at your pace.
That is completely fine. During Design Thinking, we revisit everyday friction and current challenges, then narrow them into one question and idea to test in the afternoon.
No. The workshop uses Design Thinking to find the question, AI to test it, and Marketing Communication to consider how it reaches people.
No. The overnight plan simply gives you more unhurried time to connect with participants and facilitators after day one. After the second-morning session, we also recommend taking time to explore the Hinohara area.
You can join the day-one workshop online from 11:30 to 17:30. Venue meals, accommodation, and the day-two sessions are not included.
The venue is in Hinohara, Tokyo. Full details are shared after registration. Bring a laptop, charger, and comfortable walking shoes.
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Comments from participants in the previous AOI Lab workshop.
A great workshop for learning Vibe Coding as a beginner. It was practical, enjoyable, and I learned a lot.
I was very satisfied that I could put my knowledge of AI into practice.
A rare workshop with hands-on technical support! Without that encouragement, I do not think I ever would have made time to build an app.
I shaped my own idea into a product and understood the process of developing with AI.
I learned exactly what I had hoped to learn, and it broadened the way I think about business.
It was a full and rewarding day, moving from an idea to a prototype. The facilitators’ real examples made the process convincing.
What we create reshapes us.
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