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Human Environment Design Lab
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The lab considers sustainable housing and living based on regional culture and the local natural environment.
AboutAbout the lab
Place-based design and human settlements
The Human Environment Design Lab pursues sustainable human environments grounded in regional culture and the local natural environment.
From beautiful nature to nature that causes disasters, the lab studies the many aspects of the global environment and how human environments have been built in response, learning from actual cities and villages.
It puts the knowledge gained into form as policy, planning, and design, and seeks to apply it to society through practice.
The lab is part of the School of Global Environmental Studies, with undergraduate students from the School of Architecture and graduate students from the Department of Architecture and the Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies.
Key terms
- Human settlements
- The activity of people building homes and gathering to live together, and the environment that results
- Social design
- Efforts to solve regional and social problems by applying design thinking
- Community-based disaster management
- Efforts in which residents cooperate to prepare for and respond to disasters in their area
ResearchResearch themes
In today's rapidly changing society, the lab pursues sustainable human environments grounded in regional culture and the local natural environment. It puts knowledge gained from cities and villages into practice as policy, planning, and design.
*Illustrative imagePlace-based design methods
To reorganize, develop, and pass on housing and ways of living in contemporary society, the lab presents the ideas and methods of environmental design and social design and tests them in practice.
*Illustrative imagePlace-based human settlements
The lab conducts fieldwork in villages that coexist with the natural environment and in historic cities containing diverse cultures, uncovering the wisdom and practical mechanisms that create balanced human environments and exploring their sustainability.
*Illustrative imageCommunity-based disaster management and post-disaster recovery
Focusing on Japan, the United States, and Southeast Asia, the lab studies community-based disaster management for preparing for disasters at the local level, post-disaster community recovery, and traditional knowledge about disasters.
MembersFaculty
The lab's members consist of faculty members, researchers, and doctoral, master's (including international students), and undergraduate students.
- ProfessorHirohide Kobayashi
- Associate ProfessorChiho Ochiai
- Assistant ProfessorMizuki Suginaka
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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: “Wae Rebo village, Flores Island, Indonesia” Jakub Hałun / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Place-based design methods: “Traditional Malay Craftsmanship & Technology in Brunei 09” Tawinann / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Place-based human settlements: “Wae Rebo village, Flores Island, Indonesia” Jakub Hałun / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Community-based disaster management and post-disaster recovery: “Camp Zama community tackles disaster simulators for National Preparedness Month (9962247)” U.S. Army USAGJ by Noriko Kudo / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Urban Space Engineering Lab): “2003 fire in Seattle Municipal Building” Seattle Municipal Archives from Seattle, WA / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Living Space Design Lab): “Zui-Ki-Tei, morning in june 2020” Blyerts / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Human Settlement Studies Lab): “Village house in Laos” Basile Morin / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Architectural Conservation and Regeneration Lab): “Fukuoka Parco Main Bldg the seismic retrofit Tenjin 2-chōme Chūō-ku Fukuoka 20240812” Hirho / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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