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DLX Design Lab
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A lab where designers and researchers join forces to turn scientific results into experiences and tangible forms.
AboutAbout the lab
Creating value through design.
DLX Design Lab is a design team in which designers, researchers, and engineers collaborate to create prototypes of new products and services.
Established in 2017 within the Institute of Industrial Science, the lab is based in studios on the Komaba II Campus and the Kashiwa II Campus.
Many of its projects emerge from its original process, "Treasure Hunting," in which designers and scientists look together for opportunities to collaborate.
In partnership with industry, academia, and government, the lab also works to spread design engineering methods and nurture the next generation through forums, exhibitions, and workshops.
Key terms
- Prototype
- A trial version made early on to test an idea. It is improved repeatedly through use.
- Treasure Hunting
- DLX's original design process in which designers and scientists work together to find opportunities for collaboration they can tackle together.
- Interactive
- A system in which visuals or responses change according to the viewer's movements or actions.
NewsLab news
Collaborating with As Partners, a nursing care company, on the theme of loneliness in care settings
Coral Rescue wins Notable at the Core77 Design Awards 2026
Coral Rescue wins the Grand Prix at the WIRED Creative Hack Award 2023
ResearchResearch themes
With the mission of creating value through design, the lab carries out projects jointly with partners such as researchers and companies. Working with scientists and labs within the university, it turns research results into experiences, exhibitions, and prototypes.
*Illustrative imageFeeling the water that circulates through the atmosphere
The lab creates interactive experiences that let people feel with their bodies the flow of water moving across national borders through the atmosphere. It is an attempt to convey climate knowledge not as information but as physical sensation, carried out in collaboration with the Yoshimura Lab at the Institute of Industrial Science.
*Illustrative imageDesign for the frontier of physics
In collaboration with Kavli IPMU, the lab is working on low-cost designs, from the user's perspective, for the Intermediate Water Cherenkov Detector (IWCD) of the Hyper-Kamiokande project. It tests ideas quickly with inexpensive prototypes and makes parts and jigs that are easy to assemble.
*Illustrative imageFinding what humans do better than AI
The lab is developing a game in which two players cooperate to create descriptions of images that humans can understand but AI cannot. Developed in collaboration with the Sugano Lab, it is a system for collecting data to evaluate AI while people play.
*Illustrative imageCities and rats living together
Based on a year of observation, the lab created an exhibition showing the daily lives of rats living in the city. From the perspective of coexistence rather than extermination, it explores what a city where people and wild animals can live together might look like.
MembersFaculty
DLX Design Lab is run by an Executive Director, Co-Directors, Project Leaders, and members of the design team.
- Professor山中 俊治
- LecturerHyunjung KimPublications ↗
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Report an errorAbout the images
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: “Coral planting and reef restoration may 11” Profmauri / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Feeling the water that circulates through the atmosphere: “Clouds off Peru (MODIS )” MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC / Public domain (cropped)
- Design for the frontier of physics: “Advanced Test Reactor” Argonne National Laboratory / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Finding what humans do better than AI: “Arcade video game buttons” Xdgx at English Wikipedia / Public domain (cropped)
- Cities and rats living together: “Rattus norvegicus - Brown rat 05” Zeynel Cebeci / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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