Digital Manufacturing and Design Research Center for Emergent Circularity

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.

In FY2025, the exhibit at the 2025 World Exposition (Expo 2025, Osaka Kansai, Japan).

Event report:

Lecture on the production of the Tokyo 2020 podium by 3D printing and the new resource recycling concept "Leap Cycle" (TCT Conference in Formnext2021 November 16, 2021)