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Design Process Lab
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The lab explores the design of signage and public spaces through perception gaps.
AboutAbout the lab
Designing public spaces with perception gaps as a clue.
Associate Professor Haruka Sogabe's lab specializes in public design and studies the design of elements of places and spaces used by an unspecified large number of people, such as signage and street furniture.
The lab handles both clearly defined design, such as creating design guidelines for local public relations materials and signage, and design in which the focus is chosen amid changing issues and technologies and then given form.
As preparation for design, the lab emphasizes objectively grasping, analyzing, and examining a situation, and it carries out its research with "zure," the gaps in how people perceive things depending on their position, as a keyword.
The lab believes that designers recognizing these perception gaps helps them win understanding of a design proposal from many people.
Key terms
- Public design
- Design targeting places and spaces used by an unspecified large number of people
- Street furniture
- Equipment placed in public spaces. One of the design subjects alongside signage
- Perception gaps (zure)
- Differences in how people perceive the same object or space, arising from their differing positions
- Community exchange hub
- A multipurpose facility closely tied to its local area. It is expected to serve as a central function of the town, involved in people's lives in diverse ways
ResearchResearch themes
Targeting signage, street furniture, and other elements of public spaces, the lab emphasizes objectively grasping, analyzing, and examining a situation as preparation for design, and it researches with "zure," or perception gaps, as a keyword. It is currently working on creating materials on the typology of lingering spaces and street furniture.
*Illustrative imageLingering spaces and street furniture
The lab is working on creating materials on the typology of lingering spaces and street furniture, and on the validity of how to express regional character.
*Illustrative imageSigns that evoke the sense of touch
From a design perspective, the lab has examined what possibilities arise when signs are given features that let people imagine how something would feel to the touch just by looking at it. Pavement markings are listed among its research keywords.
*Illustrative imageFacility management of community exchange hubs
The lab conducts field surveys at multiple community exchange hubs in regional cities and interviews people involved in facility management and public relations, then compares and organizes the actual state and trends of facility management and the role each community plays.
MembersFaculty
- Associate ProfessorHaruka Sogabe
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Plzen benches hostile architecture” ChickSR / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Lingering spaces and street furniture: “Bus shelter at VDNKh in Moscow” Dmitry Ivanov. / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Signs that evoke the sense of touch: “Braille tactile signage on a handrail inside a park in Hong Kong” Mk2010 / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Facility management of community exchange hubs: “Seattle - Laurelhurst Community Center interior 01” Joe Mabel / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Design Process Lab): “Street benches on Kościuszko Square, the main square of Tomaszów Mazowiecki, Poland” WrS.tm.pl / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Material Design Lab): “Material samples, SUTD Library, Singapore University of Technology and Design” Smuconlaw / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Material Design Lab): “Yarn samples from Dale Garn, Norway” Hanne Dale / Norsk Trikotasjemuseum / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Transportation (Public Transport) Design Lab): “Melbourne (AU), City Circle Tram” Dietmar Rabich / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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