Regents' lecturer Junichi Arai, a Japanese textile designer, will teach and lecture on the University of California, Davis, campus during the first two weeks of April. While Arai is on campus, he will teach a two-week seminar for design students, offer a workshop/seminar on textile design and give a public lecture. Arai, who visited the campus last year to give a lecture, works with advanced technologies, including the use of computers in design, and with natural and synthetic fibers, including metal composites. His innovative, experimental textile designs are known worldwide as a synthesis of the traditional and futuristic, of the handmade and machine processed. Arai is a major creative force in defining the look and meaning of contemporary textiles. His fabrics are used internationally by top Japanese fashion designers. Arai will teach a daylong workshop on Saturday, April 5, for textile professionals, educators and students in Room 118 of Walker Hall on the UC Davis campus. The workshop begins at 10 a.m. and will conclude by 4 p.m. At 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 9, Arai will give a public lecture titled "International Textile Trends in Invention and Design." The talk will be held in Room 1100 of the Social Sciences and Humanities Building. Textile author and teacher Yoshiko Wada, of Berkeley and of Kiryu, Japan, will serve as interpreter for Arai's lecture. A reception will follow the lecture. Arai will work with design students in a two-week seminar while he is on campus; among his topics will be textile history and textiles in the landscape. Arai's visit to the UC Davis campus is co-sponsored by the UC Regents, the UC Davis environmental design department and a UC Davis Teaching Resources Center grant.