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Contextual Design Lab
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A lab that reads social and historical context to design places where people can live better.
AboutAbout the lab
Reading context to shape the design of the future.
The Contextual Design Lab explores new approaches to design in today's increasingly complex society.
Contextual design, which gives the lab its name, is design carried out by interpreting the relationship between human activity and design within social and historical contexts.
So that people can live better in harmony with nature and culture, the lab proposes ways of creating places and ways of shaping the culture of people's behavior and experience.
The purpose of design is expanding from dealing only with objects to thinking about ways of living and tackling public issues with design thinking.
Key terms
- Contextual design
- Design that interprets the relationship between human activity and design from social and historical contexts, and proposes ways of shaping places, behavior, and experience
- Design thinking
- An approach of finding problems from the user's point of view and giving shape to solutions through repeated prototyping
ResearchResearch themes
The lab interprets the relationship between human activity and design within social and historical contexts, and proposes, as design, ways of forming places and shaping the culture of people's behavior and experience.
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- ProfessorTakayuki Higuchi
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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: “Parklet (Porec) 2” APneunzehn74 / CC0 (cropped)
- Designing Places and Experiences from Context: “Boston City Hall Plaza - DPLA - d45e733bb8c4d79c10190d657b47ee34” Halberstadt, Ernst / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Sustainable Design Lab): “Bales of PET bottles 3” Michal Maňas / CC BY 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Design Culture Planning Lab): “Sugitani Shinden02” Motokoka / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Environmental Design Lab): “Murray Playground td ( - Central Green and Amphitheater” Tdorante10 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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