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Sugawara Lab
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The lab studies barrier-free architecture and communities, and learning environments for children with disabilities.

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Environments where everyone can live as themselves.
Sugawara Lab studies barrier-free and universal design in architecture and communities, and inclusive educational environments for children and students with disabilities.
The lab pursues the creation of "environments where everyone can live as themselves."
With Japan and other countries as its research fields, the lab examines how local governments carry out barrier-free improvements and what standards apply to developing school educational environments.
The lab has also studied community accessibility and inclusion in education in Denmark while affiliated with Aalborg University.
Key terms
- Universal design
- The idea of designing buildings and communities so that everyone can use them easily, regardless of age or disability
- Inclusive educational environment
- A school or classroom environment in which children with and without disabilities can learn together in the same place
- Accessibility
- How easy it is to reach and use buildings, communities, information, and so on; it refers to ease of movement and use
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The lab has two major themes: barrier-free and universal design in architecture and communities, and inclusive educational environments for children and students with disabilities. With Japan and other countries as its research fields, the lab pursues the creation of "environments where everyone can live as themselves."
*Illustrative imageBarrier-Free Communities and Architecture
This theme covers barrier-free and universal design in architecture and communities. The lab examines how local governments draw up basic barrier-free plans, and how barrier-free improvements are carried out in small facilities.
*Illustrative imageInclusive Educational Environments
The lab studies the environments where children and students with disabilities learn. Through international comparison, it considers standards for developing environments that support the learning of children with severe and multiple disabilities and of students who have difficulty accessing information.
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- ProfessorSugawara MaikoPublications ↗
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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: “Tenji-block” Haragayato / CC BY-SA 2.5 (cropped)
- Barrier-Free Communities and Architecture: “Entrance ramp on Market Place, Candler Building (1912; renovated 1990), 101-125 Market Place, Baltimore, MD 21202” Baltimore Heritage / CC0 (cropped)
- Inclusive Educational Environments: “Elementary school classroom in Vantaankoski school in Vantaa, Finland, 2010” Leo-setä / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
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