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Kumiko Inui Studio
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A studio that uses sites of welfare as a starting point to support everyday life through architecture and cities.
AboutAbout the lab
Small landscapes that make everyday life: thinking about our infrastructure
Kumiko Inui Studio is a studio that considers, together with cities and architecture, the mechanisms that underpin everyday life.
Rather than focusing on backbone-scale systems spread across the country, it works with mechanisms that serve as infrastructure within areas of moderate extent.
It begins by researching "small landscapes," the traces of people's autonomous activities and consideration, and identifying the infrastructure that lies behind them.
At Y-GSA, students belong not to a lab but to a place of learning called a studio.
Key terms
- Social infrastructure
- A term from the sociologist Eric Klinenberg, referring to physical places and organizations that foster interaction among people
- Small landscapes
- Traces of people's autonomous activities and consideration. The first thing the studio researches
- Resources
- What is considered important for giving rise to social infrastructure. In a library designed for extended stays, books are the resources
ResearchResearch themes
The studio considers, together with cities and architecture, how the infrastructure that underpins everyday life should be. In recent assignments, students start by visiting sites of welfare and, targeting a coherent area, develop their proposals through to the design of buildings.
*Illustrative imageHuman Connections and Welfare Through Objects
Focusing on objects that mediate between people, the studio considers the sustainability, strength, and weakness of connections. By combining activities inside and outside welfare systems, students propose a coherent area and its buildings.
*Illustrative imageWelfare as a Resource
The studio starts by visiting sites of welfare and care, seen as "resources" that give rise to "social infrastructure." It considers, together with cities and architecture, the mechanisms that underpin everyday life.
MembersFaculty
The members of Kumiko Inui Studio consist of Professor Kumiko Inui, design assistants, and master's students.As of 2026
- ProfessorKumiko Inui
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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: “Scale model of Bytom of the 16th century, 1..500” Silar / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Human Connections and Welfare Through Objects: “Everyday objects - Vietnamese Women's Museum - Hanoi, Vietnam - DSC04194” Daderot / CC0 (cropped)
- Welfare as a Resource: “Acacia Ridge Community Support Centre Clifton St Moorooka P1020513” John Robert McPherson / CC0 (cropped)
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- Related lab (Nishizawa Studio): “Sudan Development Corporation Khartoum Sudan Designed by Abdel-Moneim Mustafa - North Elevation - Office Building Alternative” Abdel-Moneim Mustafa / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Maki Onishi Studio): “Scale Architectural Model of a Mario Kleff Design 01” Designer Mario Kleff / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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