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Environmental Design Lab
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A lab that studies how people relate to their environment and designs desirable environments.
AboutAbout the lab
Survey on site, build, and verify
The Environmental Design Lab comprehensively investigates problems involving the environment and people, focusing on understanding the characteristics of human psychology and behavior, and studies desirable environments and planning methods.
The lab's subjects are wide-ranging: acoustic, visual, and lighting planning; spatial staging; furniture and interior planning; public signage planning; and interior and exterior environmental planning. It always starts from a comprehensive perspective.
The lab surveys on site, forms hypotheses, proposes designs, and then verifies them in the actual location.
Using joint research with companies and ties with local communities as a framework, the lab provides a place where students can design while experiencing the reality of the field.
Key terms
- Environmental design
- Design that considers how the environment surrounding people should be, from human-made products to urban spaces
- Spatial staging
- Combining sound, light, images, furniture, and more to shape how comfortable a place feels and how it looks
- Plant factory
- A system that grows plants indoors by controlling light, water, and other conditions
ResearchResearch themes
The lab believes that ideal environmental design becomes visible by surveying on site, forming hypotheses and making proposals, and verifying them in the actual location. Based at both the Sumida Satellite Campus and the Nishi-Chiba Campus, it constantly runs several projects in parallel.
*Illustrative imageKids Project: Kirakira Kids Club
This project develops environments in which children after school can come up with play on their own. It expands child-led play, such as craft play using materials from Sumida's small factories and unneeded materials the children collect from the shopping street, and a "Kids' Shop" that uses a currency called "Pon."
*Illustrative imageKids Project: Wanpaku Tengoku
To spread places where children can play freely across the whole of Sumida Ward, the project conducts usage surveys at the playground "Wanpaku Tengoku" alongside production and discussion at its base. With the cooperation of the SSK General Incorporated Association, it is also extending to elementary schools and housing complexes together with a mobile playground.
*Illustrative imageKids Project: Play University
This project uses scrap materials collected from Sumida's small factories as "play materials" for children. It works on creating environments that convey the appeal of the materials to children and expand their play, and its current theme is the design of material storage shelves.
*Illustrative imagePlant Project: Town Plant Factory Greens
The project designs and builds "town plant factories" that combine furniture with a plant factory, places them at various sites in Sumida Ward, and holds cultivation activities and food events suited to each place. It puts them into practice at community facilities, small factories, shops, and apartment buildings, and explores the conditions needed for hubs of food education and exchange through plants. Associate Professor Imaizumi is mainly in charge of supervision.
MembersFaculty
The lab's members are faculty, doctoral students, master's students, and undergraduate students.As of 2025
- ProfessorKiminobu Sato
- ProfessorHiromichi Hara
- Project ProfessorHidehiko Miura
- Project ProfessorKaori Fujimoto
- Associate ProfessorHiroko Imaizumi
- Project Associate ProfessorHiroki Sato
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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: “Murray Playground td ( - Central Green and Amphitheater” Tdorante10 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Kids Project: Kirakira Kids Club: “Children's play area on Holbrook Recreation Ground - geograph.org.uk - 2177411” Barry Shimmon / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Kids Project: Wanpaku Tengoku: “Newhaven Fort adventure playground playset” Andy Li / CC0 (cropped)
- Kids Project: Play University: “Reclaimed ABC Brick” Funforme3 / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Plant Project: Town Plant Factory Greens: “The Association for Urban Farming Rooftop Center Aviv” TAFUF / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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