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Landscape Planning Lab (Planning and Design)
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The lab designs ever-changing landscapes where people and other living things live together.
AboutAbout the lab
Designing landscapes that change with time.
The Shimoda Lab studies the planning and design of landscapes.
Anticipating that landscapes change over time, the lab works on "circular landscape design," which designs not only for humans but also for the habitats of animals and plants.
Using a landscape-based approach, the lab also addresses areas affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake and the challenges of a future society in which the number of deaths is increasing.
Based at Chiba University's Design Research Institute (dri) in Sumida Ward, the lab also carries out demonstration experiments in cooperation with the ward.
Key terms
- Landscape
- The scenery formed by the overlap of terrain, plants, and human activity. It also refers to the field that plans and designs such scenery.
- Urban ecology
- The academic field that views a city as a place where various living things, including humans, live.
- Woodland burial (jurinso)
- A form of burial in which trees serve as grave markers instead of gravestones, and remains are placed in a woodland.
ResearchResearch themes
Assuming that landscapes change with time, the lab studies the planning and design of spaces where people, animals, and plants can live together. It addresses social issues such as the shortage of cemeteries and the lack of urban greenery through practice carried out in cooperation with local communities.
*Illustrative imageUrban Ecology and Spatial Design
The lab views cities not as places for humans alone but as habitats for living things, including animals and plants. It explores how spaces that embody such ecology can be designed and created.
*Illustrative imageNew Landscapes of Mourning Using Forests
To address the shortage of cemeteries, the lab plans new landscapes of mourning by combining planning methods for forest regeneration and community revitalization. A woodland burial cemetery project, which creates a graveyard within a forest, is one of them.
*Illustrative imageGreening That Creates Small Ecosystems on Rooftops
In cooperation with Sumida Ward, the lab is running a demonstration experiment to create green space imitating a coastal ecosystem on the rooftop of a junior high school. It used lightweight inorganic soil, watered with rainwater only, and observed the results.
*Illustrative imageVertical Greening Using Rain Gutters
In Sumida Ward, where it is hard to increase ground-level greenery and rainwater does not soak into the ground easily, the lab is developing ways to increase greenery vertically by attaching plant planters to the rain gutters of houses and using rainwater.
MembersFaculty
- Associate ProfessorRyosuke Shimoda
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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: “Design oversight, Scottish Parliament landscape - geograph.org.uk - 3512143” Robin Stott / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Urban Ecology and Spatial Design: “Urban Ecology Center” LissaMiatano / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- New Landscapes of Mourning Using Forests: “Woodland Cemetery Gates” 作者不詳 / CC0 (cropped)
- Greening That Creates Small Ecosystems on Rooftops: “Green Roof at the WIPO Headquarters 6” Emmanuel Berrod / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Vertical Greening Using Rain Gutters: “Urban greening botanical garden @ Kiba Park ( )” Guilhem Vellut from Annecy, France / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Environmental Cultural History Lab): “Konso village in the Cultural Landscape of Konso” JosepMGracia / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Environmental Landscape Design Lab): “Tranquil Park Landscape with Chinese Architecture” Wekamo79 / CC0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Green Space Environment and Resources Lab (Takahashi)): “Exposed tree roots and trunks in a park, Dhaka” A S M Jobaer / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Environmental Planting Lab): “Flower Beds in Regent's Park - geograph.org.uk - 4611870” Chris Heaton / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
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