Ryosuke Shimoda, associate Professor in Graduate School of Horticulture, is a landscape architect who has designed various type of places both in urban and regional area. Born in Saitama 1974. Educated in Chiba University and Harvard University GSD. After practical experience in the US, He worked in PLACEMEDIA and HUMUS landscape architecture in Tokyo for more than 10 years. His experience motivates him to educate students about meaning of landscape design on "GROUND where we live". He is trying to internationally and interdisciplinary create an "educational place" where human resources and culture could be circulated in our future society, and propose landscape architectural solutions for regional and social problems such as devastated sites of the Great East Japan Earthquake and massive increase of death in next 100 years in Japan.

• ASLA Professional Award as Tom Leader Studio in 2009 for Pool Pavilion Forest in USA
• JILA Award as PLACEMEDIA in 2014 for The Grand Shrine of Ise, Sengu-kan Museum Landscape Design in Ise, Japan
• Good Design Award Gold Prize as HUMUS landscape architecture in 2016 for Tennoji Park "TENSHIBA" in Osaka, Japan

• MIYAGI Shunsaku, KINOSHITA Takeshi, SHIMODA Ryosuke(2001): Theories and Practice on Play Lot Design in the Early Collective Housing Site Developed by Japan Housing Corporation: journal of the Japanese Institute of Landscape Architecture 64(5), 703-708
• SHIMODA Ryosuke , MIYAGI Shunsaku, SHINOZAWA Kenta(2009): Urban Environmental Structure on Koto Delta Area Seen through Transition of Artificial Topographic Change: journal of the Japanese Institute of Landscape Architecture 72(5), 709-714
• SHIMODA Ryosuke , MIYAGI Shunsaku, SHINOZAWA Kenta(2009): Improvement Method of Land Use Condition in Block-development Urban Collective Housing on Koto Delta Area: journal of the Japanese Institute of Landscape Architecture 73(5), 625-630
• SHIMODA Ryosuke , SHINOZAWA Kenta(2012): Structural Thinking of Ground : Design of Modern Landscape Laboratory: journal of the Japanese Institute of Landscape Architecture 76(2), 115-118
• SHIMODA Ryosuke (2016): Actual condition of the constructed land foundation and comparison between planting foundation and the earth fill of early collective housing sites in Nakagawa lowland developed by Japan Housing Corporation: journal of the Japanese Institute of Landscape Architecture 79(5), 647-652
• SHIMODA Ryosuke (2016): Collective Housing Sites and Regional Environmental Structure : Early Collective Housing Sites on Former Marshland and Those Land Foundations Developed by UR as a Potential Green Infrastructure: City planning review 65(4), 48-51

• Oshiage-Narihirabashi District Public Facilities Landscape Design (as PLACEMEDIA 2012)
  - Ministry of the Environment, Energy-Efficient Lighting Design Awards 2012 Grand Prix
• The Grand Shrine of Ise, Sengu-kan Museum Landscape Design (as PLACEMEDIA 2012)
  - JILA Award 2014(Category: Planning & Design)
• Pool Pavilion Forest, Napa Valley, California, USA (as Tom Leader Studio 2009)
  - ASLA 2009 Professional Award
• Tocho-ji Danshinto Kaikan Landscape Design(as HUMUS 2014-)
• Natural Burial Ground in Rural Temples (as HUMUS 2014-)
• Ishikawa Sakuradani Forest Revitalization Project in FUKUSHIMA (as HUMUS 2015-)
• Tennoji Park entrance area "TENSHIBA" in Osaka, Japan (as HUMUS 2015))
  - Good Design Award 2016 Gold Prize

• Tom Leader, Philippe Coignet, Ryosuke Shimoda(2005): SHANGHAI CARPET Shanghai Yang Pu University City HUB for"GROUNDSWELL" Exhibition in the Museum of Modern Art, NYC
• SHIMODA Ryosuke(2013):States of ground for dwelling on Tokyo buried valley for "16th DOMANI Art of Tomorrow"Exhibition in The National Art Center, Tokyo

• SHIMODA Ryosuke (2010):Chapter 10 Landscape Urbanism : History of Landscape Design(p153-166), TAKEDA Shiro, YAMAZAKI Ryo, NAGAHAMA Nobutaka ed.,Gakugei Shuppan-sha
• SHIMODA Ryosuke (2012):Chapter 2-1 Landform for reconstruction: Visions of our landscape for reconstruction(Japanese Institute of Landscape Architecture Planning and Research committee for the Great East Japan Earthquake ed.),MARUMO PUBLISHING

• JILA Kanto Branch, Student Design Workshop (2010):"Landscape of the millennium" director
• JILA Kanto Branch, Student Design Workshop (2011):"Earthquake, Scale, Time - Emerging Ground" director
• Student Design Workshop of Planning and Research committee for the Great East Japan Earthquake (2011):"How to live ashore" in Minamisanriku Town, Miyagi prefecture, director
• JILA Kanto Branch, Student Design Workshop (2012/2012/2014):"Facing the land damaged by a nuclear accident" in Ishikawa Town, Fukushima Prefecture, director
• JILA national convention 2013 mini forum: "How to design a landscape for recovering people's bond in the land damaged by a nuclear accident"(meeting planner: KOBAYASHI Tatsuaki, Topic presenter: KONDO Akihiko, MIZUNIWA Chizuko, SHIMODA Ryosuke (May 25th, 2013)