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Material Design Lab
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A lab that explores the possibilities of materials and technologies through expressive activities.
AboutAbout the lab
Design and expression that start from materials.
Assistant Professor Yoshifumi Tara, who works in material design, studies the possibilities of materials and technologies that arise from expressive activities.
The research keywords are material design, material-driven design, and material expression.
The professor teaches courses related to selecting and implementing materials in art and design activities.
Centered on prototyping and design practice, the professor teaches design thinking with material-driven design and visual thinking as keywords.
Key terms
- Material design
- A field that considers how to choose and use materials in art and design activities
- Material-driven design
- An approach to design in which the process starts from the material
ResearchResearch themes
The lab studies the possibilities of materials and technologies that arise from expressive activities. In a few words, it lists material-driven design and the practical application of advanced materials.
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- Assistant ProfessorYoshifumi Tara
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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: “Material samples, SUTD Library, Singapore University of Technology and Design” Smuconlaw / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Materials and technologies that emerge from expression: “Silk-handmade-paper-1280” Ckazilek / 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 (Design Process Lab): “Plzen benches hostile architecture” ChickSR / CC BY-SA 4.0 (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 (Industrial Design Lab): “Craft x Tech exhibition at V&A 2024 - 7” Electriclamb / CC0 (cropped)
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