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Agricultural Design Lab
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A lab that designs solutions to issues in beekeeping, home fruit trees, and urban parks from the users' point of view.
AboutAbout the lab
Designing new forms of agriculture.
The Agricultural Design Lab studies how to solve problems in agriculture through design that takes the user's point of view.
With the management of beekeeping, home fruit trees, and urban parks as the pillars of its education and research, the lab designs tools and systems and proposes models for solving problems.
In collaboration with companies and local governments, the lab carries out education and research aimed at real-world implementation.
Honey harvested on campus is turned into products, and the lab also develops collaborative products with companies.
Key terms
- Product design
- Designing the form, function, and usability of tools and products from the user's point of view.
- Social implementation
- Turning research results into a form that can be used in real society and industry, and delivering them there.
- Designated management (shitei kanri)
- A system in which private companies, universities, and others run public facilities such as parks on behalf of a local government.
ResearchResearch themes
For the complex, multilayered problems of modern agriculture, the lab carries out product design and system design from the standpoint of actual users, and builds and proposes models for solving them. Its work centers on the design and development of hardware and software for agriculture.
*Illustrative imageBeekeeping tools and honey research
The lab designs beekeeping equipment such as hives and smokers, as well as honey packaging. It also works on a method of evaluating honey through DNA analysis of pollen, and on surveying the vegetation around the places bees visit.
*Illustrative imageCultivation techniques for home fruit trees
The lab researches how to establish and spread cultivation techniques specialized for growing fruit trees at home, and develops home fruit tree systems suited to location and lifestyle. It also promotes their spread through books and lectures.
*Illustrative imageUrban park management
The lab is involved in the designated management of Chiba Prefectural Kashiwanoha Park and Aoba-no-Mori Park. Its activities include surveying the animals, plants, and hazardous trees in the parks, installing tree name plates, creating tree maps, and holding lectures.
MembersFaculty
- Assistant ProfessorMasayuki Miwa
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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: “Apis mellifera - Melilotus albus - Keila” Ivar Leidus / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Beekeeping tools and honey research: “Beekeeper using bee smoker” Ich / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Cultivation techniques for home fruit trees: “Apple Garden in Kashmir, India” Auli Raha (অলি রাহা) / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Urban park management: “Park Środula, Sosnowiec, Jesień 2021” Krzysztof Popławski / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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