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Terrestrial Landscape Informatics Lab (Nakamura Lab)
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A landscape research lab that reweaves the relationship between forests and people through sensibility and digital technology.
AboutAbout the lab
Reweaving forests and people through sensibility and technology
Nakamura Lab studies ways to connect natural environments such as forests with human societies such as cities.
Through fieldwork, digital technology, and the arts, the lab explores how people perceive nature.
The lab leads a project called "Cyber Forest," which places cameras and microphones in forests to continuously record changes in the landscape.
The lab also develops programs for environmental education and workshops.
Key terms
- Cyber Forest
- A project that places cameras and microphones in forests to continuously record changes in the forest landscape through images and sound
- Environmental education
- Education that helps people deepen their understanding of nature and the environment through experience and learning
- Interpretation
- Communicating the character of nature in an accessible way, together with the stories behind it
NewsLab news
The lab held individual lab briefings at the admissions information session for the Department of Natural Environmental Studies
The lab is accepting in-person visits at the graduate school admissions consultation event
A paper by a doctoral student was published in Landscape Research, the journal of the Japanese Institute of Landscape Architecture
A lab graduate received the Encouragement Award for Environmental Education Research and Practice from the Japanese Society of Environmental Education
A doctoral student received the Best Research Presentation Award at the Kanto Branch Conference of the Japanese Institute of Landscape Architecture
ResearchResearch themes
The lab explores practical methods for connecting natural environments such as forests with human societies such as cities. It investigates how people perceive nature through both direct on-site experience and digital virtual experience, and also develops programs for environmental education and workshops.
*Illustrative imageMeasuring how people perceive nature
The lab investigates how people perceive the same place differently, combining psychological impression evaluation with engineering-based behavioral measurement. The findings are sometimes used to propose learning programs.
*Illustrative imageLong-term recording of forest landscapes
To convey changes in forests to people of later generations, the lab continues to record images and sounds in forests in various regions while building up methods for sustaining long-term records. The results are published on a portal website.
*Illustrative imageEnvironmental education that conveys the changing of nature
From the perspective of environmental education, the lab studies interpretation as a form of educational material development: selecting and editing recorded images and sounds and presenting them together with their background stories.
*Illustrative imagePerceiving forests through sensibility and the arts
Beyond scientific and logical methods, the lab explores sensibility-based ways of perceiving nature through the arts, such as music, painting, anime, and literature, as a means of building relationships between forests and people.
MembersFaculty
Nakamura Lab members include faculty, doctoral and master's students, international research students, visiting collaborative researchers, and affiliated faculty from within the university.As of 2026
- LecturerKazuhiko W. NakamuraPublications ↗
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Sunlight through the trees (Unsplash)” Dawid Sobolewski / CC0 (cropped)
- Measuring how people perceive nature: “Forest trail in the Karura Forest, Nairobi” Brihaspati / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Long-term recording of forest landscapes: “Camera on cottonwood tree ( )” U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Headquarters / Public domain (cropped)
- Environmental education that conveys the changing of nature: “Beech forest in Nyuto Onsenkyo (3)” 掬茶 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Perceiving forests through sensibility and the arts: “Hasegawa Tohaku - Pine Trees (Shōrin-zu byōbu) - right hand screen” Hasegawa Tōhaku / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Suzuki Lab): “Hokkaido Sika Deer” NotAnonymous / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Forest Biological Function and Ecology Lab): “Okuchichibu-Forest 01” Σ64 / CC BY 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Terrestrial Conservation Biology Lab (Nara Lab)): “Rhizopogon re soil” Retama / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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