Keio University

Digital Manufacturing and Design Research Center for Emergent Circularity

Publish: June 30, 2025
KGRI

Creativity

Summary

The center endeavors to make a critical shift away from the industrial paradigm of Product-in Trash-out (PiTo), to a Data-in Data-out (DiDo) model through digital design and locally-based manufacturing. We embrace strategies in circular systems in economy and supply-chain, and digital innovation in 3D+ design and manufacturing. We foster collaboration between the global fab-city network and many actors, sectors and creators, in Japan and beyond.

Project Members

Note: ◎ indicates the project leader

Project Members

Principal Investigator

Hiroya Tanaka

ProfessorFaculty of Environment and Information StudiesDesign science, Digital fabrication, 3D information processing

Jun Murai

Distinguished ProfessorKeio UniversityComputer communications, Operating system

Tatsuhiko Yamamoto

Professor / Deputy-DirectorLaw School / KGRIConstitutional law