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Material Design Lab
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A lab that approaches design and expression through materials.
AboutAbout the lab
Design and expression, starting from materials
The Material Design Lab studies the possibilities of materials and techniques that arise from expressive activity.
The research keywords are material design, material-driven design, and material expression.
In education, the lab covers selecting materials for art and design activities and actually using them.
Centered on prototyping and design practice, the lab teaches design thinking with material-driven design and visual thinking as keywords.
Key terms
- Material design
- Design that focuses on the materials and substances themselves
- Material-driven design
- An approach in which a design is built up from how materials are chosen and used
- Visual thinking
- A method of developing design ideas by putting thoughts into visible forms such as pictures and diagrams
ResearchResearch themes
This lab takes the possibilities of materials and techniques arising from expressive activity as its research theme. Its keywords are material design, material-driven design, and material expression.
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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: “Yarn samples from Dale Garn, Norway” Hanne Dale / Norsk Trikotasjemuseum / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Material Design Lab): “Material samples, SUTD Library, Singapore University of Technology and Design” Smuconlaw / 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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