Research should not be completed behind closed doors. By opening the entire process — how to frame hypotheses, read data, and find structures — we hope to help more people envision the society they want. Public statistics and open data are accessible to everyone. What's missing is a shared lens for interpreting them. Each lab publishes research notes, opening the analytical process itself.
Civic Tech
Using roughly 241 million speech records from all 1,788 Japanese local assemblies, the lab measures how policies spread, how debates develop, and how residents participate.
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Public Policy
The lab studies PPP/PFI systems and the use of public assets to identify why institutions fail to work as intended and where they can improve.
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Social Design
The lab organizes six academic foundations of Social Vision Design into a practical methodology.
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Education
The lab examines cases in which ignorance is produced and sustained, then develops ways to counter informational injustice.
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Environment
The project visualizes urban sound from the perspective of people with sensory hypersensitivity and misophonia. In Bunkyo Ward, it is developing a Sensory Stress Index and examining gaps in noise policy.
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