This research is design development of the furniture which uses new cushion material. The original cushion material for furniture was made paying attention to the "hollow polyethylene resin wave cushion" currently used for the mattress. As a prior experiment for a design, the evaluation experiment of a cushion, the modification experiment, the stain experiment, and the heat process experiment were conducted. The design made the bench for three persons. The extrusion fabrication sections of the original cushion were decided to be 600mm×65mm. The surface, the back, and the side fabricated density highly, and made the surface precise. On the other hand, the central part lowered density and asked for the "softness" of the cushion. Furniture is used and aging is investigated. When three years passed, it was changeless to cushioning properties, but discoloration of polyethylene resin was checked.

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While the value of FRP products has declined due to environmental concerns, other plastic materials such as polypropylene have gained popularity as alternatives to FRP. However, polypropylene is also plastic, which means that it is not biodegradable and becomes waste that cannot be returned to the soil. Considering this fact and focusing on material for chairs, one of the basic products used in daily life, I started this study with the presumption that environment-friendly material can be utilized for free-form products other than chairs to produce a wide range of useful items for daily living. I also consider the harmony between Japanese preference for material and its suitability for the age to come as a cornerstone, and I intended to propose a new and desirable relationship between mankind and tools.

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For unattended reception desk of small office or enterprises, availability of pratical fixture and furniture which gives favorable impression to visitors, is rather limited. I developed a prototype througe this research, and would like to propose this chair with a board which displays corporate name and other information at the entrance for those tenants who share a common entrance hall. When I designed this chair, from the theory of affordance, I formed it as an icon that it to divid the area with the board, and we simulaneously intended to show visitors that this is the reception zone and the waiting seat.

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Construction of a new building for the Tomigaoka campus for the Nara Gakuen was completed in April, 2008. A large mural was commissioned to cover all four walls of the Science Hall, which is the physical and symbolic center of the new building and the school. Kotono-yorozuhano-ejyu, which is the title of the mural, relates to the educational philosophy of the school. "Science" is the school's key word and symbolizes it's guiding spirit. The mural is a print on special japanese Washi papers of big trees in which living creatures and humans are hiding. Sayings of famous scientists (discovery, impression, how one failed, etc.) on silvercolored letters were silkscreened and inserted into the mural as holograms on the leaves of the trees. All materials and representations are symbols of the sprit of the mural.

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This project was realized by the unique collaboration of graphic and interior design seminars of Kyoto Institute of Technology, for the purpose of both developing effective design education and asking for external evaluation. It aims at giving diverse interpretations to the traditional space composition of an old temple in Kyoto, and also providing unprecedented spatial experience for the visitors in combination with traditional Washi.

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This work is a design proposal for VI (Visual Identity) of MIDLAND SQUARE that has become a new landmark of Nagoya city. The biggest purpose of this proposal for a large complex that was born in the development area in front of Nagoya station is to make a 'face' of the complex that communicates its character at once and also makes a tie with the society. This plan also includes various elements such as signs, furniture and fixture in the complex, identifications for business operations, sales promotional goods and other PR materials for external communication.

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The subject of this paper is to report the process and works of the sign system planning for Tsukuba City. The area around Tsukuba Station has developed following the opening of the Tsukuba Express Line and many new visitors were expected, so a new sign system was essential. A detailed survey of the signs in the central was conducted. Based on the results, a sign guideline was issued in 2004. Thereafter, signs have been planned, designed and constructed based on this guideline as funded research. The design feature is that each sign has an art-post, made of natural materials, which is formed artistically. These art-posts contribute to the surroundings and create a sense of affluence. This project was conducted under a partnership agreement signed between the University of Tsukuba and Tsukuba City.

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The aim of this project was to raise the level of hospitality of shopping centers, using Aeon Mall Hanyu, a shopping center that opened in Hanyu City, Saitama Prefecture in November 2007, as a case study. In concrete terms, indoor and outdoor signs for customers were used to display the essential 'enjoyment of space' aspect of the shopping center, while providing multi-faceted information and promoting understanding of the sense of location. This was therefore an exercise in the construction of guidance systems and in sign design. The project went through an entire cycle, beginning with a study of existing shops, using the results of this study to inform design, implementing the design and following through with a post-implementation evaluation. Results of this evaluation showed improvements in ease of understanding and remembering information, and clearly demonstrated that the overall consistency of image of the space was highly rated.

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The pedestrian bridge located in the Ookawa amenity-oriented green space, is constructed over a center of regulating reservoirs. Gun-ma Prefecture. There is a large suburban shopping mall and General Welfare Center to the east side of the reservoirs. As an urban planning green space, the regulating reservoirs have various facilities such as garden walks, slope flowerbeds, observation deck, toilets, biotope ponds, etc. The design of pedestrian bridge on the same axis from the shopping center creates the migratory point of view that shows us a piezometric surface covered by water-side plants and provides the opportunities of bird watching. The monochord steel arch bridge with the length of approx. 40m and the effective width of 2.5m has unique curve at the S-shaped arch as a main structure and reverse S-shaped walking surface. The landscape would be amazing with the extraordinary dynamic alteration from the viewpoint of long range observation towards the bridge to the sort range access of walking toward the bridge.

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This project aims to clarify the development of the installation to be involved the various points of contact with space characteristic of the person of caused appreciation had. An area to intend for Nagoya Higashi-ku that historic row of houses along a city street is stored, and consciousness to the town of inhabitants is high. We installed the dircted equipment which made in "Toshi-no-Mori" for parking those bicycles. This project proved the medium is installation that we carry out the program how I applied it, and give the consciousness of inhabitants directionality. I reported the knowledge to be able to make use of installation made with a town in the future.

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It has been difficult to make changes on exhibits and descriptions once they are placed on exhibition. Also, there is an issue that, once being placed, they give the visitors an impression as if they are the final outcome and will never be changed. In the National Museum of Japanese History, we adopt "Touch Panel Display" system in order to cover those issues. This work shows the display's interface design. Our design concept is summarized in the two features. One is to have an expression to "inspire" the visitors to touch the panel. The other is that the display evokes an impression of "the possibility and the in-progress-ness" that the exhibit contents will be increasing and changing. The system was developed along with the renewal of an exhibition room and it took more than 1 and a half year including the trial experiments. We expect this Touch Panel Display system will be adopted as a template for further renewal of the other exhibition rooms.

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Innovative novel tools require users to construct very new activities with them. Also the tools transform people's daily activities in their life. However there are many cases that users can't use the tools because the difficulties of constructing the activities with them. The reason why the difficulties emerged is lacking of designing activities themselves. Contextual design (Karen, 1998) and Scenario-based design (Carroll, 2000) discussed on the topic concerning with "work" holding explicit goals. We have developed a framework for designing a program of activity on "Expression" at museum learnig with Activity-based design (Sunaga, 2006). This paper shows that elements of the activity as design items are divided into two categories. Those are "Container" as settings of the avtivity and "Contents" as generated outputs form the activity.

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Various solutions of Information Communication Technologies support people's everyday activities. Most of those are took for the activities as convenience. However people can't realize pregnant experience on the activities with the solutions. One reason of the difficulty of it is on lack of design contribution to the technologies. It is needed that visions of solution from people's activity point of view and shape of people's experience drawn by design to the technology central development process. This paper discusses what design problems and significance of the design outputs are and potential of the design contributions through showing a case of design development an expression tool for museum learning.

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