Cross-cultural Design Collaboration:
collaborating faculty
students:
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University of Washington
Assistant Professor
Jeff Hou
Assistant Professor Jeff Hou teaches at the Department of Landscape Architecture at University of Washington. His research focuses on cultural landscape and community design in the context of contested place identities and meanings and social movement. He is a co-founder of the Pacific Rim Community Design Network -- a group of community design scholars and practitioners in Japan, Taiwan, United States and Hong Kong.
Teaching Assistant
Keiko Shimada
Keiko is a first year MLA student. She came to the University of Washington to study urban ecological design. Her interest in this project is in the dynamic relationship of cultural landscape and community design. Her previous research in Japan was the analysis for transition of forest landscapes and neighboring community over 100 years.
Research Assistant
Scott Melbourne
Research Assistant Scott Melbourne is a landscape architecture student completing his final year of study at the University of Washington. He is interested in the design of urban spaces that connect people with natural systems in exciting ways. Scott has over seven years experience with professional new media design and development.
Chiba University
Associate
Professor Isami
Kinoshita
Isami Kinoshita is an Associate Professor at the department of Environmental Science and Landscape Architecture at the Faculty of Horticulture in Chiba University (National University). His research focuses on open space design made by urban development projects from the viewpoints of community participation for the betterment of community life and sustainable development. He was trained in the workshop method involving children together with residents in the participatory planning process of open spaces, district plans and master plans.
Professor Sawako
Ono
Professor Sawako Ono teaches at Department of Landscape Architecture at Chiba University. Her research centers on garden history in Japan in the context of nature appreciation in the city: its site, style and meaning. She is a member of the Pacific Rim Community Design Network.