My research interest is the institutions that establish our built environment in both social and physical aspects. My previous work has focused on community relocation after the Great East Japan Earthquake, which argued that the application of the community-centred approach may frame the relocation planning in consideration of the local community, but there is also a concern of institutionalisation that it will inevitably gain authority within the community in the form of public policy.
In field of architectural planning research and environment behaviour studies, my work seeks to explore the planning method of deinstitutionalisation for inclusive and convivial society. A feature of my work is that I combine surveys of actual conditions of people’s activities and utilisation with interviews using narrative approach. In developing a ‘constructionism’ view of built environment, my work has tried to provide a framework for reconsidering from people’s complex and pluralistic actualities into planning systems.