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Civil Engineering Design Lab
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A lab that co-designs public spaces, starting from the perspective of social minorities.

AboutAbout the lab
Creating public spaces together, starting from minorities
The lab works on the co-design of public spaces, starting from the perspective of social minorities.
It thinks about public spaces together with people with lived experience, and carries out practical research that brings disability and inclusion into real places.
The lab also looks at civil engineering heritage and everyday local landscapes, and studies the philosophy of civil engineering design.
Key terms
- Integrated knowledge
- An approach to tackling problems by combining the knowledge of people in different positions, such as people with lived experience, practitioners, and researchers
- Everyday landscapes
- Landscapes found in people's everyday lives
- Civil engineering heritage
- Historically valuable civil engineering structures, such as bridges
ResearchResearch themes
The lab works on the co-design of public spaces, starting from the perspective of social minorities. It pursues both practical research and research on the philosophy of civil engineering design.
*Illustrative imageCo-Design Starting from Minorities
This is practical research on creating public spaces together with people with lived experience, starting from social minorities. Its key concepts are social inclusion, disability, co-creation, and inclusion.
*Illustrative imageImplementing Inclusive Public Spaces
The lab studies the design of inclusive public spaces through social implementation, putting it into practice in real society. Its key concepts are disability, inclusion, and integrated knowledge.
*Illustrative imagePublic Spaces That Connect Local Memory
The lab studies, through practice, the design of public spaces that pass on local memory. Its key concepts are a declining birthrate and aging population, intergenerational exchange, children, everyday landscapes, and small-scale civil engineering works.
*Illustrative imageThe Philosophy of Civil Engineering Design
The lab studies the philosophy of civil engineering design, drawing on public design thought, the history of modern design, and civil engineering heritage.
MembersFaculty
- Associate ProfessorSatoshi Hano
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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: “Granite Falls Pedestrian Bridge CF NE” Heritage Preservation Department - MNHS / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Co-Design Starting from Minorities: “Wood-Design-Park-Seto” B.Wisp / CC0 (cropped)
- Implementing Inclusive Public Spaces: “HK Wan Chai Road Zenith Block 3 indoor Market braille and tactile map floorplan sign Dec-2014” TWINSCAR1115M / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Public Spaces That Connect Local Memory: “A view of the Hakodate Foreign Settlement, c. 1880” AbeBooks / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- The Philosophy of Civil Engineering Design: “Meiji Bridge the view from the downstream side Kami-kawabatamachi Hakata-ku Fukuoka 20231204” Hirho / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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デザイン〉): “Tactile paving in China 2” Mx. Granger / CC0 (cropped)
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