Labs in Yokohama National University

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A Y-GSA studio that envisions a utopia for our time through architecture.

Maki Onishi Studio takes "architecture connected to the time of the land" as its theme and works to envision a utopia for our time through architecture. At Y-GSA, students belong not to a faculty member's lab but to a place of learning called a studio. Each semester, students choose a studio and, rather than inheriting the research of faculty members or senior students, select assignments according to their own interests and deepen their inquiry. Professor Maki Onishi's research covers architectural design and architectural theory, pursuing methods of architectural creation that include landscape and regional planning.

#Architectural design #Architectural theory #Utopia

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A studio that considers and designs the form of architecture for a new era.

Nishizawa Studio is a studio at the Yokohama Graduate School of Architecture (Y-GSA) at Yokohama National University that works on architectural design proposals under the theme "Toward Architecture for a New Era." At Y-GSA, students belong not to a professor's lab but to a studio, which is the place where they learn. In their assignments, students consider architecture that expresses the values of a new era, places and living environments suited to human beings, and connections to the history of the region. The studio is led by Professor Ryue Nishizawa, an architect.

#Architectural design #Architectural theory #Environmental creation

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An architectural design studio that considers the future of cities and architecture through industry.

Fujiwara Studio is an architecture and urban design studio that considers how industry shapes the form of cities and architecture. Industry is highly influential, and it shapes not only the form of cities but also the lives, culture, and mindset of the people who live in them. Through architecture, the studio considers what sustainable industry that respects people and regions could look like. It is one of the studios of the Yokohama Graduate School of Architecture (Y-GSA) at Yokohama National University, where students belong not to a lab but to a studio, which is the place where they learn.

#Post Industry #Regional community sphere formation #Fire-break architecture

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A graduate studio that considers art and culture across philosophy and thought.

The Y-GSC studio researches art and culture across fields including film, contemporary art, literature, dance, theater, popular culture, sound culture theory, and psychoanalysis. The concept page describes the role of the faculty as that of a midwife, who works together with students to give form to the "something" they bring and sends it out into society. In the Yokohama Urban Culture Course, students learn across practical studio subjects such as "Spatial Culture Design," "Critical Media Creation," "Sound Culture Studies," and "Video and Physical Expression," as well as theoretical subjects. The Architecture and Urban Culture Course (Urban Culture track) is also called the Y-GSC Thesis Course, and the Yokohama Urban Culture Course is also called the Y-GSC Portfolio Course.

#Arts and culture #Popular culture #Sound culture studies

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A course taught in English that tackles urban challenges in developing countries through civil engineering.

The International Graduate Program in Civil Engineering (IGSI) trains people who can work in civil engineering to solve problems mainly in cities in emerging and developing countries. The course offers practical education with an emphasis on studio-based education. The course is not only for Japanese students; it is also established to educate international students, including master's students in the MEXT special program for government-sponsored international students. Lectures, studio-based education, and master's thesis supervision are basically all conducted in English.

#Civil engineering #Cities in emerging and developing countries #Studio education

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A lab in modern and contemporary Japanese history that studies postwar student movements and the massacres that took place during the Great Kanto Earthquake.

Prof. Hasegawa's lab specializes in modern and contemporary Japanese history and international Japanese studies. Prof. Hasegawa has studied the history of student movements in postwar Japan, the history of the massacres at the time of the Great Kanto Earthquake, and related topics. Before becoming a faculty member, Prof. Hasegawa carried out surveys and research in the United States and Japan. In supervising research, the professor makes a point of listening closely to students.

#Modern and contemporary Japanese history #International Japanese studies #History of student movements

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A lab that studies how plant genes function and how DNA is repaired.

Prof. Hiratsuka's lab has gene expression regulation in plants, germ cell formation, and DNA repair and genetic recombination as its research areas. Plant pathology and the application of plant genetic engineering to environmental science are also listed as research areas. The professor teaches in the Department of Natural Environment, Graduate School of Environment and Information Sciences.

#Gene expression regulation #Germ cell formation #DNA repair and genetic recombination

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セラミックスの微構造と力学特性（高橋 拓実） (introduction coming soon)

Microstructure and mechanical properties of ceramics

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金属材料物性・無機材料分析・測定・計算材料科学（南 大地） (introduction coming soon)

Physical properties of metallic materials, analysis and measurement of inorganic materials, computational materials science, first-principles calculations

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Research on astrodynamics, which designs the trajectories of spacecraft.

Assistant Professor Naoki Hiraiwa studies methods for designing spacecraft trajectories. The research keywords are stochastic control, astrodynamics, trajectory design, orbital mechanics, and aerospace engineering. Paper titles include travel in the space around the Earth and the Moon, designs for transferring between orbits in the shortest time with low thrust, and the design of orbits that wait for a comet. Assistant Professor Hiraiwa belongs to the Artificial Environment and Information Division of the Faculty of Environment and Information Sciences, and also holds concurrent positions in the Department of Artificial Environment of the Graduate School of Environment and Information Sciences and in the Faculty of Engineering Science.

#Trajectory design #Astrodynamics #Stochastic control