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Research-Engineered Cultural Education

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Research-Engineered Cultural Education

Eclectic.CO
Laboratory

Culture, Language, Education

Keio University SFC 折衷研究会 Est. 2025
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8Business Units
3Active Projects
4+Conference Papers
3Languages Taught
∞Culture Domains
THUWeekly Sessions
8Business Units
3Active Projects
4+Conference Papers
3Languages Taught
∞Culture Domains
THUWeekly Sessions
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研 究

001 — Research Seminar

折衷研究会

Culture-Mediated Task-Based Teaching and Learning

This is not a university course. You won't receive academic credit from any academic institution.

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→ Eclectic.CO is an independent research seminar — a space where people who care about language, culture, and education come together to study, build, and teach. We operate with full agency: our own syllabi, no grades, no bureaucracy.

Our main approach is language acquisition through a sociocultural lens, but we are generally open to anything in education. And we don't stop at theory. Every insight gets tested through the platforms, games, and curricula we build.

This seminar is for those who want to work in applied linguistics, language education, or educational technology. Not for credit, but because the work matters. Prior academic background helps; intellectual hunger matters more.

Holding Company & Venture Studio

Weekly Operations

Thursdays · 09:30–12:30 JST · Keio Innovation Village

Eclectic.CO Laboratory is a research lab that ships products. We operate as a venture studio where research, experimentation, and venture creation happen in parallel. Members bring ongoing ideas, skills, and domain knowledge into a shared studio environment.

The studio is designed to be flexible and adaptive, allowing ventures to emerge organically from the interests, expertise, and observations of members. We currently operate 8 standalone business units under the Eclectic umbrella.

Each semester follows a rotating thematic focus that shapes the direction of exploration and venture development. Members are encouraged to design, test, and launch concrete outputs — startups, platforms, research-backed products, or experimental initiatives — that are publicly shared at the end of each cycle.

002 — Our Foundation

What is Culture?

When you think of language, you think of culture. But culture isn't just food and festivals — it spans everything that shapes how humans live, think, and communicate.

This is why our members work across such varied domains — because culture touches everything.

Language Art Culture & Heritage Social Cultural Behavior Finance Environment Sports Food Sector Hospitality

Members of Eclectic.CO explore their own research topics and business ventures within these domains.

Across these domains, we...

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Research

Sociocultural theory and pedagogy research that proves our method works.

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Build

Platforms, games, and interactive experiences that make cultural learning tangible.

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Teach

1-on-1 and group lessons using our culture-first curriculum for better fluency.

The world tends to put culture to the side.
We believe culture is the main engine.

003 — Projects

What We're Building

Products, projects, and experiments we are shipping.

Kalcer Preview

Flagship Platform

Kalcer カルチャー

A culture-first language learning platform where daily life structure becomes learning architecture. Backed by research, built to compete with market-leading products.

DBW

Visual Novel × Learning Environment

Dancing Between Worlds

An autoethnographic language learning environment for Indonesian. Available in English and Japanese.

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Game Modules

Culture Based Learning Modules

3D printed cultural task-based learning objects used to teach and learn target languages through cultural mediation.

Noesantara

Content Series

The Noesantara Story

We reorganize and publicize Indonesian cultural narratives for modern learners through various forms of media and events.

004 — Business Units

What We Offer

Operations across our 8 standalone business units with full creative agency.

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Language Tutoring

1-on-1 language tutoring with research-backed curriculum. Services in Indonesian, Japanese, English.

@VerbaActa

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Culture Consulting

Consult and maximize your culture initiative with our framework and activities.

@Eclectic.CO Laboratory

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Experience Design

Conceptual travel for experiential journeys blending Indonesia's traditional and modern cultures. Now in Jawa, Sunda, and Kalimantan.

@Noesantravel

04

Research-as-Service

We turn academic research into public education through explainers, illustrated blogs, interactive web pages, and mini-lectures.

@Eclectic.CO (SNS)

05

Heritage Exchange

Annual exchange where high school students engage with communities, study sociocultural theory in the field, and develop capstone projects.

@KalcerExchange

06

Documentation Studio

We document living culture through music videos, short films, and photography — visual records of scenes, communities, and movements.

@LensaNoesantara @NaspadProductions

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Event & Performance

Cultural performances, theatre, interactive shows, and festival arrangement.

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Language Enrichment

Ensure proper language is used in professional contexts. Improve human interaction, individual development, and business operations.

Coming Soon

創 造

005 — Community

Talent Network

  • We partner with creators who want to showcase their culture
  • Social media talents creating cultural content
  • Researchers exploring cultural pedagogy
  • Language educators who want to use our method
Community
Events
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006 — Founder

The Person Behind

Mughni

Mughni

Founder & Principal Investigator (PI)

Indonesian student at Keio University SFC. MEXT Scholar 2024. Researcher in sociocultural theory and language pedagogy. Builder of games, platforms, and cultural experiences.

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001 — About the Laboratory

What is
Eclectic.CO?

An independent research seminar where culture is the curriculum, the method, and the output. No grades. No bureaucracy. Just real inquiry and real work.

Eclectic.CO Laboratory is a research-engineered cultural education venture. We sit at the intersection of sociocultural theory, language acquisition, and educational technology — and we believe these three things must exist together.

The name "Eclectic" is intentional. We draw from multiple traditions, disciplines, and cultural contexts. We do not commit to a single methodology or school of thought, but to the principle that culture mediates all learning.

We operate as both a research seminar (折衷研究会) and a venture studio. Every semester, our members work on real projects — platforms, curricula, events, publications — that go out into the world. The research informs the build. The build tests the research.

Our long-term goal is to become an independent institution with our own publication track, product ecosystem, and cultural influence — beginning in Japan and extending to Indonesia and Southeast Asia.

Founded

2025 · Keio University SFC

Primary Focus

Sociocultural Theory · Language Pedagogy · Cultural Education

Operating Model

Independent Research Seminar + Venture Studio

Meeting Cadence

Thursdays 09:30–12:30 JST · Keio Innovation Village

Languages

Indonesian · Japanese · English (and more)

Affiliation

Not affiliated with any academic institution (yet)

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"Culture should be living, creative, and ours. Not locked in textbooks or displayed behind glass. The best way to learn a language is to live inside its culture — and the best way to preserve a culture is to teach it through language."

— Mughni, Founder

002 — The Team

Our
People

The researchers, builders, and educators who make Eclectic.CO what it is.

Principal Investigator

Mughni

Mughni

Founder & Principal Investigator

Indonesian undergraduate at Keio University SFC on the MEXT Scholarship. Researcher in sociocultural theory and language pedagogy. Founder of Eclectic.CO. Builder of games, platforms, and cultural learning environments. Also trains Muay Thai. Multilingual in Indonesian, English, Japanese, and Thai.

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Members & Collaborators

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Open Seat

Research Member

We're looking for people who are intellectually hungry and want to do real work in cultural education. Join us.

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Open Seat

Venture Member

Have a venture idea in culture, language, or education? Bring it here. We'll build it together.

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Open Seat

Collaborator

External collaborators from all disciplines welcome. If culture touches your field, you belong here.

003 — Our Research

Worlds of
Inquiry

We believe culture is not a backdrop to language learning — it is the engine. Our research explores how cultural mediation transforms the way humans acquire, express, and transmit meaning.

Research Domains

01

Cultural Arts

How visual arts, performance, literature, and music function as language learning environments. From wayang to theatre to contemporary expression.

02

Cultural Behaviors

How sociocultural practices — rituals, norms, etiquette, and collective memory — shape how language is used and how it should be taught.

03

Cultural Industries

How food, sport, hospitality, finance, and creative industries carry embedded language systems and cultural pedagogical potential.

Active Research & Publications

2025

Dancing Between Worlds: An Autoethnographic Exploration of Language Learning Through Cultural Identity

ISAN 2026 — International Symposium on Applied Nomadology

This paper examines how diaspora individuals navigate the tension between cultural authenticity and creative expression when learning languages in foreign contexts. Using autoethnographic methodology and Sociocultural Theory, it argues that identity negotiation is not a barrier to language acquisition — it is the acquisition itself.

2025

Culture-Based Instruction Frameworks: Integrating CBI, CJI, and CEJ in Multilingual Contexts

ICEDU 2026 · AsiaTEFL 2026

A practical framework paper presenting the CBI, CJI, CEJ, CBI-J, and CJE curriculum models developed for Eclectic.CO's tutoring services. Demonstrates how culture-first pedagogy outperforms grammar-first instruction for adult learners in Southeast Asia.

2025

Task-Based Language Teaching Through Cultural Mediation: A Task Design Taxonomy

TBLT in Asia 2026

Proposes a new taxonomy of culturally-mediated tasks for TBLT, using Indonesian cultural artifacts as anchors. Includes empirical classroom data from the Kalcer platform and VerbaActa tutoring sessions.

Ongoing

Kalcer: A Culture-First Language Learning Platform — Design, Theory, and Validation

Graduation Project · Keio University SFC 2028

The flagship research project backing the Kalcer platform. Combines Vygotsky's ZPD, Engeström's Activity Theory, and the Kalcer Daily Life Architecture model to create a research-validated language learning product ready for the open market.

Why this work matters: Most language education treats culture as decoration — a Friday activity, a recipe, a holiday. We treat it as infrastructure. Language is carried inside culture, not adjacent to it. When you strip culture out of a language curriculum, you're not teaching a language; you're teaching code. Our research and products exist to change that — not just in classrooms, but in apps, in games, in lived experience.

004 — Outreach

Culture
in Action

Research that never leaves the lab is not research — it's drafts. Here's how Eclectic.CO goes into the world.

DBW

Visual Novel Platform

Dancing Between Worlds

An interactive language learning environment built around the founder's autoethnographic journey. Available free in English and Japanese. Used in tutoring and self-study.

Noesantara

Content Series

The Noesantara Story

A media series reorganizing and publicizing Indonesian cultural narratives — from folklore and performing arts to contemporary cultural production — for modern learners worldwide.

Exchange

Annual Program

KalcerExchange

High school students engage directly with communities, learn culture and sociocultural theory in the field, and develop capstone projects. The most immersive cultural learning program we offer.

Conference

Academic Conferences

ISAN, ICEDU, AsiaTEFL, TBLT

Our research is actively presented at international academic conferences. We bring the lab's findings into the scholarly community and bring back new ideas to test in the studio.

005 — Join the Lab

Come
Build With Us

We're not for everyone. We're for people who want to do real work, think seriously about culture, and build things that matter.

Eclectic.CO is not a student club or a casual meetup. It is a studio where intellectual seriousness meets practical execution. We're building platforms, writing research, running tutoring services, and shipping cultural products. If that sounds like your kind of place, read on.

Available Tracks

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Research Track

Work on ongoing research projects in applied linguistics, language pedagogy, and cultural education. You'll contribute to papers, experiments, and the theoretical framework behind our products.

Academic Background Preferred

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Venture Track

Bring your own venture idea or join an existing one. Build products, run business units, and develop initiatives that live under the Eclectic umbrella with full agency.

Builder Mindset Required

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Talent Network

Creators, educators, and cultural practitioners who want to collaborate on specific projects. You don't need to attend weekly sessions — just bring your craft.

Open to All

Interested?

We're always looking for people with intellectual hunger. Fill out the interest form and tell us what you want to build or research.

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