**Activities （Recent posts. [[View all>Lab-news]].）　 [#f54d395d]
-  2014.02.23: City Government of Nomi and Nagai Lab, JAIST will invite Asst. Prof. Zaini Alif, a university lecturer at Indonesian Art Higher School (STSI Bandung). He is the founder of HONG community, a cultural group is dedicated to reinvent and conserve Indonesian folk games and toys. COLOR(purple): Zaini and HONG community will perform traditional games and musical workshop with children at the ''Manabi Festa 2014'' on 23rd February at city of Nomi, Japan.
-  2014.02.23: City Government of Nomi and Nagai Lab, JAIST are inviting Asst. Prof. Zaini Alif, a university lecturer at Indonesian Art Higher School (STSI Bandung) who is also the founder of HONG community. This cultural group is dedicated to reinvent and conserve Indonesian folk games and toys.~ 
COLOR(purple): Zaini and HONG community will be performing traditional games and musical workshop together with children at the ''Manabi Festa 2014'' on 23rd February at city of Nomi, Japan.
- 2013: A new journal called ''International Journal of Design Creativity and Innovation'' (Taylor & Francis) will be launched in January 2013. The journal is currently accepting manuscripts for review. [[Journal homepage:http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/TDCI]], [[Call for Papers:http://www.jaist.ac.jp/ks/labs/nagai/DesignCreativityW/index.php?plugin=attach&pcmd=open&file=CallForPapers_DCI_.pdf&refer=News]].
-  2013.10.28: Design Research Lab. & The Research Center for Innovative Lifestyle Design will hold ''the 1st Lifestyle Design Research Center Seminar''. We invite Associate Professor Kunio Nikata from Kanazawa College of Art.~
Title: ''Cognitive Science approach in Design Research''~
Date and time: October 28, 2013, (Mon) 15:00pm-16:30pm~
Location: Lecture Room, School of Knowledge Science Building.~
※Pre-registration is not necessary, please come to the venue directly.~
Contact: Administrative and Planning Section, Research Affair  Department:  r-soukatsu@jaist.ac.jp
-  2013.10.12: Design Research Lab takes part in science-government collaboration project with Nomi City at JAIST Festival. This is a part of ''the Regional Development by the Next Generation of Cultural Creation.'' We distribute 100 pieces of 3D printer Gotochi character with round potato (Nomi specialty) "Nomi maru" to 100 first visitors. [[Detail:http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20131011-00067630-hokkoku-l17]].
- 2013.10.1 (14pm to 16pm): Design Research Lab hold a seminar entitled ''Social Design through Timber Recycling System in the Building.'' The purpose of this seminar is expansion in activities that captures civilized resources, and cultural resources towards a sustainable society, to study the mechanism of value conversion by the knowledge scientific approach.
Location: Nomi City Community Collaboration Development Center [[Webpage:http://www.nominiko.com//]].
- 2013.08.26-30: Prof. Nagai and Design Research Lab. member will present papers at ''5th The International Association of Societies of Design Research (IASDR) World Conference on Design Research'' (IASDR13), Tokyo.  [[Webpage:http://www.iasdr2013.jp/conference.html]].
- 2013.08.19-22: Prof. Nagai is chairing (SIG Workshop) Creativity in design synthesis - 1 at ''19th International Conference on Engineering Design'' (ICED 2013), Korea.  [[Webpage:http://www.iced13.org/]].
- 2013.08.19-22: Presentation from colleagues and Design Research Lab. at ''19th International Conference on Engineering Design'' (ICED 2013), Korea.  [[Webpage:http://www.iced13.org/]].
- 2013.08.06 Design Research Lab. collaborated with National Institute of Organization for Small & Medium Enterprises to held ''13th i-BIRD matching Seminar'' with theme: "3D printer is changing the business!" at University of Ishikawa cooperation incubator (i-BIRD).
[[Webpage:http://www.smrj.go.jp/incubation/i-bird/seminar/079849.html]].
- 2013.07.18: Design Research Lab. member receives  the University Consortium Ishikawa ''2013 Year Region field study seminar support project.''
Title: "Social Design Research Seminar with attention to design of timber recycling system in the building"
[[Webpage:http://www.jaist.ac.jp/news/update/2013/25.html]].
- 2013.07.18: Design Research Lab. held the ''5th Knowledge Sciences Seminar on Kansei evaluation method'' with guest speaker, Assoc. Prof. Masaki Sakamoto (The University of Electro-Communications, Graduate School of Information Science and Engineering). Presentation title: "New Sensibility Evaluation Method based on Natural Language."
[[Webpage:http://www.jaist.ac.jp/event/2013/718-5.html]].
- 2013.06.21-23: Presentation from Design Research Lab at ''60th Annual Conference of JSSD'' in Tsukuba, Japan.  [[Webpage:http://www.geijutsu.tsukuba.ac.jp/~jssd60th/]].	
- 2013.06.17-20: Poster presentation from Design Research Lab. at ''9th ACM International Conference on Creativity and Cognition 2013'', Sydney, Australia  [[Webpage:http://cc13.creativityandcognition.com/]].
- 2013.05.20: A member of Design Research Lab. (Nagai Lab.) receives ''Student Research Bursary Award 2013'' from Design Research Society (DRS), UK.
- 2013.05.14-17: A presentation from Design Research Lab. at ''DRS//CUMULUS 2013'', an International Conference for Design Education Researchers at Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, at Oslo, Norway. [[Webpage:http://www.hioa.no/eng/About-HiOA/Fakultet-for-teknologi-kunst-og-design/DRS-CUMULUS-Oslo-2013]].
- 2013-2014: Team of Design Research Lab. (Nagai Lab.) receives ''the 8th Research Grant for Educational Practice for Children'' [[HAKUHO FOUNDATION:http://www.hakuhodo.co.jp/foundation/subsidy/new.html]]. This research will be conducted within one year at rural craft villages in Japan and Indonesia. 
- 2013.01.29: ''A seminar held by Design Research Lab. at JAIST'', presented by Florencio PAIVA (France) and Kanami MORITA (Japan) at Collaboration Room 2, JAIST, School of Knowledge Science, 2013.01.29, 15pm-17pm.
- ''2nd Call for Papers of 9th ACM Conference on Creativity and Cognition'', 17-20 June, 2013, UTS, Sydney, Australia. Theme: `Intersections and Interactions’.
Sponsored by ACM, SIGCHI, Interaction Consortium, Centre for Human Centred Technology Design (HCTD) UTS. [[Webpage:http://cc13.creativityandcognition.com/]]
- 2013.01.07-09: Presentation from Design Research Lab at ''ICoRD'13'', an International Conference at IIT Madras, Chennai, India. [[Webpage:http://www.icord2013.iitm.ac.in/]]	
- 2012.10.16-17: Presentation from Design Research Lab at ''Design Symposium 2012'' in Kyoto, Japan. [[Webpage:http://news-sv.aij.or.jp/keikakusub/s22/program.html]].	
- 2012.09.18-20: Poster presentation from Design Research Lab at ''ICDC 2012''. - 2012.08.1-4 Prof. Nagai presented a poster presentation at  ''COGSCI 2012'' in Sapporo, Japan. [[Webpage:http://cognitivesciencesociety.org/conference2012/index.html]]. 
- 2012.08.27: KS-seminar with Prof. Kazuhisa Todayama from Nagoya University.
- 2012.07.1-5: Presentation from Design Research Lab at ''DRS 2012'' Conference in Bangkok. [[Webpage:http://drs2012bangkok.org/]].
- 2012.06.22-24: Prof. Nagai presented a paper at ''The 59th Annual Conference of JSSD'' in Sapporo. [[Webpage:http://www.jssd59th.scu.ac.jp/]].
- 2012.05.21-24: Prof. Nagai presented a paper at ''DESIGN 2012'' Conference in Croatia. [[Webpage:http://www.designconference.org/]].
- 2012.05.7-11: Presentation from Design Research Lab at ''TMCE 2012 Symposium''. [[Webpage:http://tmce.org/]].
- 2012.02.29: Presentation from Prof. Nagai at JST Plaza. [[Details:http://www.sanrentenkai.jp/seeds2012/index.html]].
- 2012.02.27: ''KS-seminar'' with Prof. Tanaka from Kanazawa Institute of Technology. [[Homepage:http://y-tanaka.kit.labos.ac/ja]].
- 2012.01.30-31: Prof. Nagai at ''Design Theory SIG Workshop'' held in Paris, France. [[Details:http://www.cgs.ensmp.fr/DesignTheorySIG/]].
- 2011.11.3-6: Poster and presentation from Design Research Lab at ''ACM Creativity & Cognition 2011, Atlanta, Georgia, USA''.
[[Homepage:http://dilab.gatech.edu/ccc/]] and [[Program:http://dilab.gatech.edu/ccc/?page_id=241]].
- 2011.10.31-11.04: Presentation and poster from Design Research Lab at ''4th World Conference on Design Research, IASDR2011, Delft, the Netherlands''. 
[[Homepage:http://www.iasdr2011.org/]] and [[Program:http://www.iasdr2011.org/?id=3]].
- 2011.09.23-25: Presentations and poster from Design Research Lab at The 28th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Cognitive Science Society.
http://www.jcss.gr.jp/meetings/JCSS2011/program/index.html
- 2011.08.17: Presentation from Design Research Lab at ICED11. http://www.iced11.org/Programme.aspx
- 2011.02.29: KS-seminar with presentations from:
-- Prof. Kazuhiro Ueda, Tokyo University (Topic: The structure of demand-side innovation―Which is more important for idea generation resulting in innovation, personality feature or preceding information?)
-- Dr. Sachiko Kiyokawa, Chubu University
- 2010.11.29-12.1: Presentations and posters from Design Research Lab at the First International Conference on Design Creativity, Kobe, Japan. http://www.org.kobe-u.ac.jp/icdc2010/
- 2010.07.03/04: Two presentations from Design Research Lab at the Annual Conference of JSSD http://www2.nagano.ac.jp/jssd/info.html
- 2010.04.23/26: Dr. Ian Gwilt's lecture and exhibition:
-- Lecture "Compumorphic art - the computer as muse", Friday 23rd April, 4pm – 5:30pm, Collaboration Room 2 – KS Building 5F
-- Exhibition "Natural Fabrications", Monday 26th April, 12pm – 5pm, Communication hall - 1F in front of the JAIST cafeteria
- 2010.04: Dr. Ian Gwilt, Director of Visual Communication, University of Technology, Sydney, is visiting researcher at Design Research Lab
http://datasearch.uts.edu.au/dab/staff/details.cfm?StaffId=2075
- 2009.10.27: The 7th ACM Creativity and Cognition Conference at Berkeley Art Museum & UC Berkeley http://www.creativityandcognition09.org/schedule.htm
A paper form Design Research Lab was presented at Workshop "Creativity and Cognition in Engineering Design"  http://www.ccedworkshop.org/
- 2009.10.18-22: Two papers from Design Research Lab were presented  presented on IASDR 2009 conference in Seoul, Korea
http://www.iasdr2009.org/


- 2009.7.14: Prof. Takashi Kiriyama, Tokyo University of the Arts, presented "Observation and Analysis of Behaviors in an Interactive Art Installation" on KS seminar

- 2009.6.06: Open Campus day at JAIST. Design Research Lab presented several posters [[(poster1):http://www.jaist.ac.jp/ks/labs/nagai/cgi-bin/English/index.php?plugin=attach&pcmd=open&file=MeaningsConceptualDesign-Poster.pdf&refer=FrontPage]].

- 2009.3.23: Prof. Ernest Edmonds and Dr. Linda Candy (Creativity and Cognition Studios, University of Technology Sidney, Australia) visited our  laboratory

http://www.creativityandcognition.com/ and http://www.uts.edu.au/

- 2009.2.17: Assoc. Prof. Samuel Gomes, PhD, University of Technology Belfort-Montbéliard (UTBM), France, visited Design Research Lab and presented "Collaborative Design and Knowledge factory - CoDeKF" at KS Seminar on Feb. 16th. 

http://set.utbm.fr/index.php?pge=297
- 2009.2.06: Call for Papers::ACM 7th Creativity and Cognition conference 2009:: Everyday Creativity: Shared Languages and Collective Action, October 27-30, 2009, Berkeley Art Museum, CA, USA, Sponsored by ACM SIGCHI, in co-operation with SIGMM/SIGART

http://www.creativityandcognition09.org/
- 2008.9.29:Two research works were presented at 18th Design and Systems conference
http://www.jsme.or.jp/conference/dsdconf08/
- 2008.7.25: The two awards are reported in the events section of the university's homepage 
http://www.jaist.ac.jp/news/award/2008/0725.html
- 2008.7.01: Two presentations from Design research lab are among the selection of excellent research presentations on The 55th JSSD conference 
http://jssd.jp/modules/bulletin/article.php?storyid=258
- 2008.6.28-29: Research presentations at The 55th Annual Conference of Japanese Society for the Science of Design (JSSD) from 27 to 29th of June 2008 held in Hiroshima International University
http://jssd.jp/
http://www.hirokoku.jp/jssd_s08/
- 2008.6.7: JAIST Open Campus
- 2008.4.19-21: Laboratory members participated in The East Asian A3 Project meeting held in Taiwan.
- 2008.4.5-7: Laboratory members participated in The East Asian A3 Project meeting held in Seoul, South Korea.
- 2008.4.5: JAIST Entrance ceremony
- 2008.3.25-27: Andy Dong, PhD., Senior Lecturer in University of Sydney <http://web.arch.usyd.edu.au/~adong>, visited our laboratory and gave talk entitled "Language technologies in design" on 10th KS-seminar