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Design Engineering Lab
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The lab studies how to create products from both design and engineering perspectives.
AboutAbout the lab
Building a way of thinking about making things through design and engineering.
The Design Engineering Lab studies the design of living spaces and the products that make them up.
Drawing on experience in product planning and development of office furniture at a manufacturer, the lab aims to build ways of thinking and methodologies for making things.
In joint research, the lab develops new products with manufacturers using inclusive design methods and systemic design thinking.
The lab carries out education and research while moving back and forth between the practice of product design and the theorization of design.
Key terms
- Inclusive design
- A design approach that involves diverse people, such as people with disabilities and older adults, in the design process
- Abduction
- Reasoning that forms a hypothesis that can explain observed facts. It is discussed together with deduction and induction
ResearchResearch themes
To establish a framework for design engineering, the lab moves back and forth between the practice of product design and the theorization of design. Recently, it has also worked on design theory based on the concept of inference, and on healthcare design related to medicine, medication, and health.
*Illustrative imageA spoon for people with reduced grip strength
The lab works on the design and evaluation of a spoon with a T-shaped grip for people with reduced grip strength. The work is carried out as product design research.
*Illustrative imageDesigning the experiential value of food
The lab studies the value of food-related experiences from a design perspective, incorporating systemic design thinking.
*Illustrative imageTools that support oral self-care
To motivate people toward preventive dentistry, the lab designs and evaluates tools that support oral self-care. This research falls within healthcare design related to medicine, medication, and health.
*Illustrative imageDesign theory based on signs and inference
The lab is building a design theory that applies Charles Sanders Peirce's theory of semiosis and modes of inference (deduction, induction, and abduction) to design.
MembersFaculty
- Associate ProfessorNaoshige Naoshige
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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: “Maker Space Orientation ( )” U.S. Embassy Dhaka / Public domain (cropped)
- A spoon for people with reduced grip strength: “Noshery restaurant bespoke cutlery 01” Lewis Eisen / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Designing the experiential value of food: “Starter dish in Turkey” E4024 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Tools that support oral self-care: “Two Interdental-brushes” Denkhenk / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Design theory based on signs and inference: “Triangle sémiotique” Nbenmaachia / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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