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Communication Design (Masahiro Takita) Lab
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A lab that supports community development and child and family welfare through communication design.
AboutAbout the lab
Communication design as a technique for bridging the gaps between people.
The Takita Lab engages in practice, research, and education centered on community development and child and family welfare.
Its foundation is the techniques and way of thinking of communication design, understood as "a technique for bridging the gaps between people."
The lab places particular emphasis on practice and research in the field of child and family welfare, working with a wide range of stakeholders to overcome challenges.
For education, the lab is responsible for the Future Concept Design Course at the undergraduate level and the Strategic Design Course, among others, at the graduate level.
Key terms
- Communication design
- Thinking through and giving shape to how people convey messages and engage with one another, as a technique for bridging the gaps between people
- Child and family welfare
- The field of welfare that supports children and their families
- Foster parent recruitment
- Efforts to find people who will become foster parents and raise children in their own homes
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Building on communication design as a technique for bridging the gaps between people, the lab tackles challenges in community development and in the field of child and family welfare. Drawing on the professor's background as a certified social worker, the lab carries out practice and research in collaboration with a wide range of stakeholders.
*Illustrative imageCitizen-Led Community Development
The lab works on community development and community design in general, as collaborative efforts brought together from the standpoint of citizens (people directly affected, users, and residents).
Public Relations and Design in Social Welfare Settings
The lab considers what communication design and public relations should look like in social welfare settings.
*Illustrative imageFoster Care Awareness and Recruitment
Drawing on perspectives from communication design and service design, the lab works on raising awareness of the foster care system and recruiting foster parents.
*Illustrative imageTools That Support Children's Rights
The lab designs communication tools that contribute to social care for children and to safeguarding children's rights.
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: “Boys playing street football in Egypt” Mohamed Hozyen Ahmed / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Citizen-Led Community Development: “Parkdale Community garden volunteer day” Oceanflynn / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Foster Care Awareness and Recruitment: “Foster Parents Plan London Nursery- Caring For Displaced Children, London, England, 1941 D6137” Ministry of Information Photo Division Photographer / Public domain (cropped)
- Tools That Support Children's Rights: “Woman reading picture book to children” Kids association / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Communication Design Lab): “Children's playground, Calthorpe Community Garden - geograph.org.uk - 4534697” David Hawgood / CC BY-SA 2.0 (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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