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Transportation (Public Transport) Design Lab
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The lab explores the relationship between the design of public transportation and society.
AboutAbout the lab
Analyzing the kind of design that moves society
Assistant Professor Tomohiro Sakotsubo's lab studies the relationship between the design of public transportation and society.
Assistant Professor Sakotsubo has worked in design practice at a design firm, on public transportation vehicles, consumer devices, and industrial machinery.
Drawing on this experience, the lab investigates the relationship between the design process and design philosophy at the planning stage, and design evaluation based on how things are actually used after implementation.
The lab also puts effort into developing people who can put into practice in society the School's educational and research philosophy of "the humanization of technology."
Key terms
- design process
- The process of planning a design and giving it form. It refers to how the design was thought through and carried out at the planning stage
- design evaluation
- Checking how a finished design actually worked for the people who use it, and identifying its problems
- needs
- What users and society want or require
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The lab studies how the design of public transportation connects the thinking at the planning stage to the evaluation after actual use. It aims to analyze the kind of design that moves society.
*Illustrative imagePublic Transportation Design and Evaluation of Use
The lab analyzes the relationship between the design process and design philosophy at the planning stage of public transportation, and design evaluation based on actual usage after implementation. It studies methods for designing public transportation.
*Illustrative imageOverseas Railway Vehicle Design and Needs Surveys
In a hypothetical project assuming the Mumbai suburban railway in India, the lab proposed a railway vehicle design together with a co-author. It also analyzed the role that surveys of NGOs play in identifying needs for public-use objects.
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- Assistant ProfessorTomohiro Sakotsubo
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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: “Melbourne (AU), City Circle Tram” Dietmar Rabich / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Public Transportation Design and Evaluation of Use: “Van Ness Bus Rapid Transit 02” Mattsjc / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Overseas Railway Vehicle Design and Needs Surveys: “Train interior of Shinkansen N700A” Cheng-en Cheng / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Transportation (Public Transit) Design Lab): “Rio light rail arriving at Santos Dumont station” Luke Starkenburg / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Industrial Design Lab): “Craft x Tech exhibition at V&A 2024 - 7” Electriclamb / CC0 (cropped)
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