Current Research

TokyoVoid: urban interventions, design and policy development for the strategic utilization of urban voids in the sustainable urban regeneration of Tokyo.
STARSinternational: private and public overlays in urban space fabrication, use and maintenance.
PhD research 2005-2008
Graduate School of Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, Civic Landscape Design Laboratory, Professor Hiroshi Naito
Thesis: ‘potscape. A study on the hybrid landscape of Tokyo’s informal gardens.’ Dipl-Ing. Landscape Architecture University Hoexter, Germany 2002

Publications

Jonas, Marieluise, and Heike Rahmann. "Freiraumplanung Im Justizvollzug [Landscape Architecture at Penitentiaries]." GruenForumLA Branchen Magazin fuer GaLaBau und Landschaftsarchitektur (2004).

Jonas, Marieluise. "Private Use of Public Open Space in Tokyo. A Study on the Hybrid Landscape of Tokyo's Informal Gardens." JoLA Journal of Landscape Architecture 1, no. 4 (2007), 18-29.

———."Potscape. A Study on the Hybrid Landscape of Tokyo's Informal Gardens." Awarded the degree of PhD Civil Engineering by Thesis, The University of Tokyo, 2008.

———. "Hybrid Landscapes of Tokyo's Informal Gardens - Case Study Yanaka." In Another Tokyo - Places and Practices of Urban Resistance, edited by Darko Radovic. Tokyo: ichii shobou, 2008.

———. "Meisterschueler, Master Student." Generalist. Magazine for Architecture 1, no. 1 (2008).

———. "Japanese Gardens Revisited [Potscape. Gaertnern in Tokyo.]." Zoll + Oesterreichische Schriftenreihe fuer Landschaftsarchitektur und Freiraum 1, no. 12 (2008).

———. "On Guerrilla Gardening." Landscape Architecture Australia 5/09, no. 122 (2009).

———. "Utilizing Informality as Design Strategy for Sustainable Urban Regeneration of Asian Mega Cities. Learning from London’s Green Initiatives and Tokyo’s Informal Gardens." In International Conference on Planning and Design ICPD 2009, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan City, Taiwan 2009. [ Best Paper Award ICPD 2009]

———. "Floating Borders. Tokios Informelle Gaerten Im Spannungsfeld von Privat Und Oeffentlich." In Stadträume in Spannungsfeldern. Plätze, Parks und Promenaden im Schnittbereich öffentlicher und privater Aktivitäten, edited by Ulrich Berding, Antje Havemann, Juliane Pegels, Bettina Perenthaler. Aachen: Bauverlag, 2010

———. "From Large to Miniature to Site Specific. On the Approach of Design Processes in Contemporary Japanese Landscape Architecture." In International Association of Societies of Design Research, Seoul 2009.

———. "I Love New Tokyo. Questioning Contemporary Urban Identities of Tokyo and Their Potential for Sustainable Urban Regeneration." Weimarpolis Multidisciplinary Journal of Urban Practice 1, no. 2 (2009).

Conferences and Public Lectures 2007-2009

Jonas, Marieluise. "A Study on the Hybrid Landscape of Tokyo's Informal Gardens - Case Study Yanaka." In YANESEN In the centre and on the margin: situating the local community between low and high-rise, the case study of YAnaka, NEzu, SENdagi, convened by Hosei University The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 2007.

———. "Landscape Architecture Research in Japan." In University OWL Public Lecture Series in Landscape Architecture, convened by University Ost Westfalen Lippe, Hoexter, Germany 2008.

———. "Utilizing Informality as Design Strategy for Sustainable Urban Regeneration of Asian Mega Cities. Learning from London’s Green Initiatives and Tokyo’s Informal Gardens." In International Conference on Planning and Design ICPD 2009, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan City, Taiwan 2009. ———. "Urban Space in Japan." In Public Presentations, convened by Melbourne City Council, Melbourne 2009.

———. "Informal." In exposure. Public Lectures in Landscape Architecture, convened by RMIT University, Melbourne2009.

———. "From Large to Miniature to Site Specific. On the Approach of Design Processes in Contemporary Japanese Landscape Architecture." In International Association of Societies of Design Research, Seoul 2009.

Research Grants

Strategic Research Fund (SRC) group funding 2009: Tokyo Void

Design Research Institute Urban Liveability Fund 2009: STARS Australia Workshop