Guest speaker in this talk event held in connection with “YCAM Open Lab 2019: Understanding Living Culture” is “wild scientist” Kosuke Katano.

In connection with his efforts promoting the development of open scientific communities with the aim to open up new ways to engage in biological research, he is presently working out low-cost and widely-accessible tools for people around the world. In his presentation, Katano introduces his activities and the respective underlying ideas, while also talking about his recent interest in unusual organisms and fieldwork-based biology.