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Sato Lab
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A lab that rethinks space through how people spend their time in it, from children's settings to community places where people belong.
AboutAbout the lab
Thinking about space from how people spend their time in it.
Sato Lab is a lab for environmental psychology, architectural planning, and children's environment studies.
The lab observes where people are and how they spend their time in childcare facilities, schools, and towns.
From these observations, it considers how each place should be, and links its findings to design and community initiatives.
Much of the work is fieldwork outside the university, and students take hands-on part in projects from planning through to realization.
Key terms
- Environmental psychology
- A field that studies how surrounding spaces and environments affect people's feelings and behavior
- Architectural planning
- A field that considers how a building's layout and furnishings should be, based on the activities of the people who use it
- Behavioral observation
- A method of watching and recording on site where people are and what they are doing, in order to read their relationship with the space
NewsLab news
Information sessions and interviews for FY2027 specialized lab seminar registration have been posted
ResearchResearch themes
The lab uses behavioral observation to understand where people are and how they spend their time in a space, and considers what each place should be. Its subjects range widely, from places where children grow, such as childcare facilities and schools, to urban settings such as shopping streets and plazas, and it also works on projects that create places in towns where people can gather.
*Illustrative imageDesigning the Sound of Childcare Spaces
In childcare settings, where children spend long hours, how sound resonates affects comfort and calm. From the standpoint of architectural planning, the lab studies the acoustic environment of childcare rooms, and also examines cases in Germany that place importance on the rights of children and childcare workers.
*Illustrative imagePlaces Where Generations Mix
In shared spaces that combine housing for older adults with places for children, the lab observes what kinds of interaction arise, for example at mealtimes. It considers how to create places where children and people of many generations grow together in an age of population decline.
MembersFaculty
- Masayuki Sato
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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: “Hitane Elementary School classroom 1” Douglas P Perkins / CC BY 3.0 (cropped)
- Designing the Sound of Childcare Spaces: “Boxwood PS kindergarten classroom” ChinaFlag / Public domain (cropped)
- Places Where Generations Mix: “Talking with the hands” Wikimania2009 Beatrice Murch / CC BY 3.0 (cropped)
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