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We study ways of natural and creative living and how to shift our society to be more natural and creative.

You consist of a multitude of interests big and small, major and minor. Yet you most likely have learned that to achieve your highest potential, you should focus on improving just your best interest, and your other interests are less important. When you graduate through Iba Lab, you will become a change maker, someone to make new waves with Pattern Languages in various domains---such as learning, presentation, collaboration, project design, education, welfare, cooking, parenting, open dialogue… You will hone your skills with Pattern Languages --a set of words that illuminate and advise people to take on proactive attitudes towards achieving their desired qualities. You will connect with other practitioners of Pattern Languages through the international conferences you attend when you present your work. Pattern Languages, produced here in Iba Lab, redefine our notions of potential, pointing the lens at the sum of all our “creative” potential. These languages open the possibility of realizing even your tiny interests, without sacrificing your important interests. We create Pattern Languages to help others create a “creative” society.

Pattern Language is a language that can raise the quality of life by describing practical knowledge in ways that can be shared and used by others. It is created through specific processes, such as pattern mining, pattern clustering, pattern writing and pattern illustrating. We also apply pattern language in dialogue workshops to communicate and describe solutions to problems under certain condition in particular contexts.

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