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Umeda-Kishita Lab
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The lab designs sustainable systems, from the entire life of a product to the society of the future.
AboutAbout the lab
Design that connects engineering and society.
The Umeda-Kishita Lab studies methods to support the design and production work that people carry out.
In particular, the lab aims to model societal challenges, such as solving environmental problems and realizing a sustainable society, and to solve them through design.
Its work includes design that takes the life cycle of industrial products into account, the design of scenarios that depict the future of society, and systems that support engineers working on the front lines of manufacturing.
Key terms
- Life cycle
- The entire life of a product, from when it is made and used to when it is discarded or reused
- Backcasting
- A method of first picturing the desired future, then working backward from it to decide what should be done now
- Conceptual design
- The first stage of design, in which, before detailed shapes are decided, designers consider what functions to achieve and by what mechanisms
NewsLab news
A student received the Japan Society for Design Engineering's FY2024 Eiji Muto Award for Outstanding Students
Associate Professor Kishita received the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers' Design & Systems Division Contribution Award
A student received the Best Presentation Award at the Japan Society for Precision Engineering Spring Meeting
ResearchResearch themes
The lab studies design as a link between engineering and society. Aiming to solve environmental problems and realize a sustainable society, it works on product life cycle design, scenario design for future societies, the Digital Triplet, support for conceptual design, and life cycle engineering.
*Illustrative imageDesigning the Whole Life of a Product
For industrial products such as cars, home appliances, and personal computers, the lab studies methods for designing not only the product itself but also its entire life cycle, from manufacture to the end of use.
*Illustrative imageScenario Design for a Sustainable Society
The lab studies design methods for describing the future of a sustainable society as scenarios. It also works on methods for creating visions of the future through participatory backcasting.
*Illustrative imageDigital Triplet
Based on the Digital Triplet, a concept for supporting the intellectual work of engineers in manufacturing, the lab studies methods for supporting engineers and their effects.
*Illustrative imageSupporting Conceptual Design
Centering on functional modeling, which represents the functions a product performs using models, the lab studies methods for supporting conceptual design, the first stage of the design process.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Umeda-Kishita Lab consist of faculty, academic specialist staff, technical staff, administrative assistants, and doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students.As of 2026
- ProfessorYasushi UmedaPublications ↗
- Associate ProfessorYusuke KishitaPublications ↗
- Project ProfessorShinsuke Kondoh
- Project LecturerYuya MitakePublications ↗
- Project Assistant ProfessorAmy Poh Ai LingPublications ↗
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Report an errorAbout the images
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: “Disassembled laptop” Tulumnes / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Designing the Whole Life of a Product: “Computer displays” Eugenio Hansen, OFS / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Scenario Design for a Sustainable Society: “Biogas Photovoltaik Wind” Florian Gerlach (Nawaro) / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Digital Triplet: “Industrial production line operating in a large modern factory” Shixart1985 / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Supporting Conceptual Design: “Механизм наручных часов” Dack9 / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Kishita Lab): “Greenville Public Works, ECVC Recycling Sorting facility - 14” Greenville, NC / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Jinbo-Kotani Lab): “Axons Al Dente” MikeRoscopy / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Hara Lab): “Design Thinking Workshop WMDE 1” Corinna Schuster (WMDE) / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Higaki-Yamanaka Lab (Product Design Laboratory / PDLAB)): “Ceramic 3D Printing by Studio Under3” Studio Under / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
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