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Maeda Lab (Masahiro Maeda)
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The lab explores housing and communities in cities and regions through fieldwork and dialogue.
AboutAbout the lab
Emphasizing fieldwork and collaborating with people on site
Maeda Lab studies contemporary cities and regions, focusing on how people live in each region and place, and on the forms of housing and community.
The lab values in-depth fieldwork experience and aims at practical research (action research) through dialogue and collaboration with people directly involved on site, such as residents, local governments, and businesses.
Students conduct research in fields in Japan and abroad, on topics such as the use of vacant houses and local communities, the resilience of small regional cities, and the connections between remote islands and cities.
Key terms
- Action research
- Practical research that leads to value creation and problem solving through dialogue and collaboration with people directly involved on site, such as residents, local governments, and businesses.
- Fieldwork site (field)
- A real-world location that researchers actually visit to conduct their investigations.
- Resilience
- The ability to recover and sustain people's lives after being hit by disasters or other changes.
NewsLab news
The book Kenchiku Fieldwork no Mirai-kei (The Future Form of Architectural Fieldwork), edited by the Architectural Institute of Japan and published by Showado, has been completed
Associate Professor Maeda received the 30th Engineering Education Award (Publication category) from the Japanese Society for Engineering Education
Associate Professor Maeda received the 23rd Research and Practice Award from Jusoken (Housing Research Foundation)
Associate Professor Maeda received the Best Paper Award 2023 from the Japan Architectural Review of the Architectural Institute of Japan
ResearchResearch themes
The lab studies contemporary cities and regions, focusing on how people live in each region and place, and on the forms of housing and community. It places importance on fieldwork experience and on dialogue and collaboration with people directly involved on site.
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The members of Maeda Lab consist of faculty, doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students, special research students, and international postdoctoral research fellows (PD).As of 2026
- ProfessorMasahiro Maeda
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