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Goto Lab
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The lab studies daily life and community development through urban and regional landscapes.
AboutAbout the lab
Seeing the lives and systems behind the landscape.
The Goto Lab studies urban and regional landscapes from the two perspectives of regional planning and urban design.
It views a landscape as including not only its visible form but also the "seikatsukei" (landscape of everyday life) of the people who live there, and the social systems that support it.
Centered on fieldwork, the lab develops methods such as the "Community Development Game of Life," which traces changes in daily life, and oral history.
Through building systems of resident self-governance, it aims to create vibrant urban and regional landscapes.
Key terms
- Seikatsukei (landscape of everyday life)
- An approach that views a landscape as including not only its visible appearance but also the way of life that takes place there
- Fieldwork
- A research method of going outside the lab to observe a site and talk with people on location
- Oral history
- A research method of recording people's experiences and the history of a place by listening to their accounts
NewsLab news
Recruitment held for the 33rd cohort of graduation thesis students (FY2026)
A master's student won the Outstanding Graduation Thesis Award (36th, FY2025) from the Architectural Institute of Japan
A master's student won the Special Jury Prize at the Tokyo Architecture Collection Master's Thesis Exhibition
Master's and undergraduate students won the Subu Yasuhiro Award at the Tokyo Architecture Collection 2025 Project Exhibition
ResearchResearch themes
The lab studies urban and regional landscapes from the two perspectives of regional planning and urban design. It is currently working on community development practice in existing residential areas and on joint research on the lives of residents of UR rental housing.
*Illustrative imageMutual-editing community development
Joint research on the practice of "mutual-editing community development," in which residents of existing residential areas edit one another's ideas as they move forward.
*Illustrative imageUR rental housing and better living
As joint research, the lab considers what kinds of measures can realize better living (well-being) for people who live in UR rental housing.
MembersFaculty
The Goto Lab's members consist of faculty, research associates, researchers, master's and undergraduate students, non-degree course students, and faculty from other universities.As of 2026
- ProfessorHaruhiko Goto
- LecturerJeongmin Lim
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Report an errorAbout the images
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: “Residential by Zenpukuji River in Horinouchi, Suginami, Tokyo, Japan, 2024 May” Ximonic (Simo Räsänen) / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Mutual-editing community development: “Low residential next to Wadabori Park in Omiya, Suginami, Tokyo, Japan, 2024 May” Ximonic (Simo Räsänen) / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- UR rental housing and better living: “HiradoDanchi” E217 / CC0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Ariga Lab): “Old Merchant District of Little Edo IMG 0323” Dandy1022 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Yaguchi Lab): “Tokyo-Waterfront-City” MaedaAkihiko / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Watanabe Lab): “Mangrove roots in the Laguna de La Restinga” Wilfredor / CC0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Tanaka Lab): “Kintsugi on broken Kyūsu lid-top oblique PNr°1258” D-Kuru / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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