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Communication Design Lab
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The lab supports child and family welfare through community development and communication design.
AboutAbout the lab
Communication design that bridges the gaps between people
The lab of Associate Professor Masahiro Takita is engaged in practice and research on community development and child and family welfare, based on communication design.
The lab regards communication design as “a technique for bridging the gaps between people,” and places emphasis on practice that overcomes problems by collaborating with a wide range of stakeholders in child and family welfare settings.
The lab views community development as a collaborative effort that can be brought together from the standpoint of citizens (people directly affected, users, and residents).
The lab also works on promoting awareness of the foster care system and designing communication tools that contribute to children’s rights.
Key terms
- Communication design
- An approach to design described as “a technique for bridging the gaps between people”
- Foster parent recruitment
- Activities to find people who will become foster parents
- Public relations
- Activities in which an organization communicates information to society and builds relationships with people
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The lab works on community development led from the standpoint of citizens, and on communication design in child and family welfare settings. Focusing mainly on child and family welfare settings, it emphasizes practice and research that overcome problems by collaborating with a wide range of stakeholders.
*Illustrative imageCitizen-led community development
The lab views community building as a collaborative effort that can be brought together from the standpoint of citizens (people directly affected, users, and residents), and studies community design in general. It considers community development as a means of living together with others within a broad landscape that includes the natural environment.
Communication and public relations in welfare settings
The lab studies how communication design and public relations should be carried out in social welfare settings, mainly in child and family welfare settings.
*Illustrative imageRaising awareness of foster care and recruiting foster parents
Drawing on perspectives from communication design and service design, the lab studies how to raise awareness of the foster care system and how to recruit foster parents. It also works on developing guidelines for foster parent recruitment through insight analysis of people involved in foster care.
*Illustrative imageDesigning tools that support children’s rights
The lab designs communication tools that contribute to social care for children and to safeguarding children’s rights. One example of a joint project is a card kit that encourages dialogue between children living in foster families and their supporters.
MembersFaculty
- Associate ProfessorMasahiro Takita
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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: “Children's playground, Calthorpe Community Garden - geograph.org.uk - 4534697” David Hawgood / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Citizen-led community development: “Miner Crosby Community Center ribbon cutting ( )” North Charleston from North Charleston, SC, United States / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Raising awareness of foster care and recruiting foster parents: “New childrens hospital helsinki playroom in cafeteria 01” Sinikka Halme / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Designing tools that support children’s rights: “Jacob de Gheyn (II) - Woman and Child looking at a Picture Book - WGA08699” Jacob de Gheyn II / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Communication Design (Masahiro Takita) Lab): “Boys playing street football in Egypt” Mohamed Hozyen Ahmed / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Advertising Expression Lab): “Ruddy-Duker Ltd. billboard advertising Vancouver 1932” Neon Products (Commissioner) / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Advertising Expression Lab): “Printing press 03” Vis M / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Industrial Design Lab): “" 12 - ITALY - Pouf Tuffet Sacco di Zanotta red armchair Triennale Design Museum” Pava / CC BY-SA 3.0 it (cropped)
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