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Social Design Lab
The lab organizes six academic foundations of Social Vision Design into a practical methodology.
- Research Domain
- Social Design
- Research Lead
- Naoya Yokota
- Start Date
- Mar 28, 2026 –
- Notes
- 27 notes
Background
The 'social design' that runs through ISVD's activities is situated at the intersection of three practices: structural social analysis (identifying invisible problems), epistemological critique (asking why they remain invisible), and design practice (translating insights into concrete interventions). This lab systematically organizes the six academic traditions underlying social design — social policy, agnotology, epistemology, participatory design, EBPM, and civil society theory — drawing on 977 citations found across more than 104 existing ISVD articles, and clarifies the differences from existing design research (service design, transition design, etc.).
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Twenty Years of Kamiyama, Tokushima — Reading Rural Social Innovation through the Six-Field Integration Model
2026-07-14
Sixteen Years of MindLab Denmark — Reading a Government Policy Innovation Lab through the Six-Field Integration Model
2026-07-15
Citation Network Analysis — The Intellectual Map Drawn by 938 References
2026-03-29
The Limits and Self-Referentiality of Agnotology — Is ISVD Itself Producing 'Invisibilities'?
2026-03-30
The Limits of Nudge and Behavioral Design
2026-07-02
The Open Access Paradox — How to Reach Those Who Cannot Be Reached
2026-03-31
What Social Design Is Not — Five Boundary Lines
2026-04-01
Operationalizing the Six-Field Integration Model — A Four-Stage Mapping from Theory to Practice
2026-07-13
The Genealogy and Critique of Design Justice
2026-07-02
The Boundary Between Speculative Design and Social Vision Design
2026-07-02
The Intellectual Coordinates of Social Design — Six Academic Roots Decoded
2026-04-02
Literature Map: From Agnotology to 'Structural Invisibility'
2026-04-03
Literature Map: The Genealogy of Civil Society Theory — Tocqueville→Habermas→Putnam→Salamon→Japan's NPO Movement and ISVD's Theory of Citizens
2026-04-04
The Lineage of Deliberative Democracy
2026-07-02
Literature Map: Social Design vs Service Design vs Transition Design
2026-04-05
Literature Map: The Genealogy of EBPM — Evidence-Based Policy Making and ISVD's Data-Driven Approach
2026-04-06
Institutional Design Theory and the Commons
2026-07-02
Comparison of Similar Labs / Research Institutions Abroad — Profiles of 7 Institutions and ISVD's Position
2026-07-16
Literature Map: The Lineage of Participatory Design — Arnstein → Sanders → Manzini → ISVD's Methodology
2026-04-07
Literature Map: Positioning Among Prior Institutions — Graduate School of Social Design, Rikkyo University, and ISVD
2026-04-08
Literature Map: The Genealogy of Social Design Evaluation — 14 Years of English-Language Scholarship and the Gap in Japanese
2026-07-16
Literature Map: The Lineage of Social Policy — Tachibanaki, Kenjoh, Miyamoto, and ISVD's Intersection
2026-04-09
Social Design Manifesto — Democratizing Vision So Everyone Can Shape the Future
2026-03-28
Methodology Note: Why Data-Driven Visualization Constitutes an Intervention Against Epistemic Injustice
2026-04-10
Methodology Note: 'Reading the Structure' — The Theoretical Foundations of ISVD's Three-Section Frame
2026-04-11
The intersection of shrinking society and epistemic justice / Extracting structural patterns via 5-lab integration
2026-07-17
Six-Field Integration Model — How Social Policy, Agnotology, Epistemology, Participatory Design, EBPM, and Civil Society Theory Intersect
2026-03-28
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