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Nakatani Lab
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A lab that creates services to solve social issues through co-creation and dialogue.
AboutAbout the lab
How to create services that help solve social issues?
The Nakatani Lab studies methodologies for creating services through "co-creation" and "dialogue," as well as the design of the information and communication technology that supports them.
The lab goes out to a variety of real-world settings to explore the underlying issues, and takes the process of developing solutions itself as an object of study.
Currently it focuses particularly on care, such as childcare, parenting, and elder care, and works on issues such as relieving social isolation.
Those who wish to join the lab or go on to its graduate program are expected to attend an information session in advance and receive an explanation of the research from the faculty.
Key terms
- Co-creation
- People from different positions working together to create new value or services
- Well-being
- A state in which one feels fulfilled in mind and body and feels that one's life is going well. Also called subjective well-being
- Living lab
- An initiative in which services are designed and tested together with residents and other people in settings close to everyday life
- Metaverse
- A three-dimensional virtual space built on the internet that many people can enter at the same time
NewsLab news
Exhibited at Suzukakedai Science Day, holding hands-on activities and workshops
Notice of 2026 admissions information session and lab visits
A master's student received the Student Excellent Interactive Presentation Award at the HCG Symposium
Held a hands-on exhibition themed on future living at the campus festival Kodai-sai 2025
Co-created with WisH Lab Inc. and supported its exhibit at Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai
ResearchResearch themes
The lab studies service creation through co-creation and dialogue grounded in real-world settings, aiming to solve social issues and enhance people's subjective well-being. Drawing on design thinking and human-centered design, it solves real problems with information and communication technology while making the processes and mechanisms themselves objects of study.
*Illustrative imageRealizing well-being and the socialization of care
The lab focuses on care, such as childcare, parenting, and elder care, aiming to relieve social isolation and promote the socialization of care. Research is carried out through dialogue and workshops with older adults and with parents raising infants and young children.
*Illustrative imageDeveloping co-creation methodologies
The lab studies "living labs," in which services are created with residents in settings close to daily life. It observes and models the changes in people's thinking and behavior that occur during co-creation, and uses the results to develop methodologies and tools.
*Illustrative imageMirai Living Lab
In the "Mirai Living Lab," run jointly with the Saito Lab, the lab aims to develop methodologies for shaping the future of society as people's own concern. Co-creation takes place at local community spaces and at events such as the campus festival (Kodai-sai).
*Illustrative imageCo-creating care in the metaverse
The lab studies methodologies that recreate care settings such as nursery schools in the metaverse to help improve the quality of care. It is also developing a program that lets the people involved reflect after providing care.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Nakatani Lab consist of faculty, researchers, and students in the doctoral, master's, and undergraduate programs.As of 2026
- ProfessorMomoko NakataniPublications ↗
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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: “Stickies to brainstorm Edit.2014.” victorgrigas / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Realizing well-being and the socialization of care: “Two sets of wooden unit blocks” User:Ragesoss / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Developing co-creation methodologies: “ZEB Living Lab 1” Kjersti Lie / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Mirai Living Lab: “Yoorala Street Community Garden, plots 2” Aliceinthealice / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Co-creating care in the metaverse: “VR headset with smartphone and stereoscopy image” Bert Niehaus / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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