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Ito Lab
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A lab that thinks about spaces where people feel they belong by getting hands-on with real places.
AboutAbout the lab
Thinking about places to belong by working with your hands.
The Ito Lab, with architectural design at its core, studies spaces that become places where people belong.
At the youth center in front of the university's main gate, a park in Chiba City, an community center in Sodegaura City, and other sites, students take the lead in renovations and workshops.
The lab is also researching homes for children in child care institutions.
In a weekly reading group, members work through books about space one at a time.
Key terms
- Workshop
- A gathering in which people work with their hands alongside local residents, sharing ideas and making things together
- Child care institution
- A residential facility where children who have difficulty living at home live together with staff
- Place to belong (ibasho)
- A place where a person can feel at ease and feel that they are welcome to be there
NewsLab news
Students won the Jutaku Kenchiku Editor-in-Chief Award at the National Architecture Student Challenge Competition
A student won an Encouragement Award for their fiscal 2025 graduation design project
The entrance remodeling project at Chiba Youth Center PRISM was completed
Students won the Grand Prize at the international competition "SCHOOL AS ANCHHOR OF COMMUNITY"
A student won an Excellence Award for their fiscal 2024 graduation design project
ResearchResearch themes
The lab thinks about spaces where people feel they belong by getting hands-on with real places. In addition to projects at a youth center, a park, and a community center, it is researching homes for children in child care institutions.
*Illustrative imageImproving the window environment of a youth center
At Chiba Youth Center PRISM, located in front of Chiba University's main gate, the lab is working to improve the indoor environment. Students take the lead in measuring window temperatures, proposing improvements, giving presentations, and carrying out construction. Labs in the environmental field are also collaborating.
*Illustrative imageRemodeling the entrance of a youth center
At the same Chiba Youth Center PRISM, the lab worked on renovating the entrance as the second stage of the environmental improvement. The goal is to make it a more inviting entrance.
*Illustrative imageRenewal workshops for a park
For the renewal of Miyazaki Park in Soga, Chiba City, the lab is holding parent-child workshops jointly with a lab at Kanto Gakuin University. The aims are to foster attachment to the park and to encourage exchange across generations.
*Illustrative imageCreating places for junior high and high school students
In joint research with Sodegaura City, Chiba Prefecture, the lab is creating a special place for junior high and high school students in the first-floor lobby of the Hiraoka Community Center (the former Hiraoka Public Hall). It also holds workshops where it designs the space together with junior high and high school students.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Ito Lab consist of faculty members, graduate students, and undergraduate students.As of 2026
- Assistant ProfessorJun'ichi Ito
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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: “Interior, Wyoming Valley School Cultural Arts Center, Wisconsin State Highway 23, Wyoming, WI” w_lemay / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Improving the window environment of a youth center: “Window Light Building 51 0227” ImagePerson / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Remodeling the entrance of a youth center: “Dülmen, St.-Viktor-Kirche” Dietmar Rabich / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Renewal workshops for a park: “Rumson, N.J., Oct. 9, 2013 - Families visit project boards developed by Sea Bright community members at the Sea Bright 2020 second community workshop. The workshop allows residents - DPLA - 3f2ce5ead96d703945d61c42be9e0d20” Department of Homeland Security. Federal Emergency Management Agency. Public Affairs Division. 3/1/2003 / Public domain (cropped)
- Creating places for junior high and high school students: “Seattle - Laurelhurst Community Center interior 01” Joe Mabel / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
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