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Nohara Lab
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A lab that connects science and technology with art and design, with translation at its core.
AboutAbout the lab
Letting different forms of knowledge meet through translation
Nohara Lab studies language and communication, with “translation” as its keyword.
Its foundation is translation studies, an interdisciplinary field involving linguistics, semiotics, and communication studies.
The lab believes that sharing scientific and technological information with society requires many kinds of “translation.”
Drawing on its network of artists, designers, art universities, and companies, the lab creates encounters between science and technology and art and design.
Key terms
- Translation studies
- An interdisciplinary field that takes translation as its object of study and explores how people and cultures work through its regularities and historical facts
- Semiotics
- The study of how things that convey meaning, such as words and images, work
- Typeface
- A set of letterforms unified by a consistent design, such as Mincho and Gothic styles
NewsLab news
A paper by the lab received the 13th Paper Award from the Japan Society of Library and Information Science
A master's student received the Tokyo Tech Student Leadership Award
A master's student received the Best Presentation Award at the midterm presentation
A doctoral student received the Excellence Award from the AAMT Young Translation Researchers' Workshop
A master's student received the Eiji Muto Award for Outstanding Students from the Japan Society for Design Engineering
ResearchResearch themes
The lab pursues communication and translation, and the encounters they create between people and between areas of knowledge. While taking part in a variety of projects in Japan and abroad, it works to connect science and technology with art and design.
*Illustrative imageIntegrating Science, Technology, and Art
A training program in which company employees and researchers work together, jointly developed by Institute of Science Tokyo and Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London. It is built on research findings from science, art, engineering, design, and the humanities.
*Illustrative imageTypeface Research
Typefaces serve to make text easier to read, attract attention, and convey a particular impression. The lab covers work from basic research on how to describe the shapes of typefaces to automatic generation and evaluation of readability.
*Illustrative imagePostwar Science Education and Science Literacy
By analyzing teaching materials such as Shogakusei no Kagaku (Science for Elementary School Children), compiled under GHQ leadership after World War II, the lab examines from multiple angles how postwar science education, which fostered science literacy, took shape.
*Illustrative imageDeliberations in Lay Judge Trials
How can lay judges and professional judges, whose legal knowledge and experience differ greatly, discuss on equal footing? Bringing together insights from law, linguistics, psychology, and engineering, the lab proposed concrete ways of conducting deliberations, such as the sticky-note method and the chart method.
MembersFaculty
The members of Nohara Lab are faculty and staff members and students.
- ProfessorKayoko NoharaPublications ↗
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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: “Rosetta Stone” Hans Hillewaert / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Integrating Science, Technology, and Art: “Fluorescent ink in water 1” Schbence / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Typeface Research: “Type case with movable types for letterpress printing in the Gutenberg Museum, Mainz, Germany ( )” dronepicr / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Postwar Science Education and Science Literacy: “Antique brass microscopes ( )” Thomas Quine / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Deliberations in Lay Judge Trials: “Beverley Guildhall Courtroom” Michael D Beckwith / CC0 (cropped)
- Related lab (西條研究室): “TechnicalWishlist Workshop Search 16-18 Munich StickyNotesWall1” Jan Dittrich (WMDE) / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (因幡研究室): “Schlieren image of supersonic nitrogen flow” Jan Pavelka / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (大友順一郎研究室): “Natural Gas Corp. of N.Z. Ammonia-Urea Plant at Kapuni ( )” Archives New Zealand from New Zealand / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (相樂研究室): “Nuclear Fuel Pellets ( )” Nuclear Regulatory Commission from US / Public domain (cropped)
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