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Representative Director
Akihiko Ono
Registered Landscape Architect
Associate Professor, Graduate School of Design, Nagoya City University
Part-time Lecturer at Chuo University
Part-time Lecturer at Aichi Institute of Technology
Akihiko Ono has challenged relating each site to its local community. Ono aims to enhance continuity with the community by providing open public spaces for the community and by revitalizing the forests and nature that remains on the site. One of his favorite pastimes as a child was to graze on the path from school to home. He has his original childhood experience of spending one or two hours on his way home from school, which was less than a kilometer away, picking flowers along the greenway, sucking nectar from the flowers, basking in the sun, and playing hide-and-seek with friends. After junior high school, whenever he learned about various social issues such as poverty and urban problems in the world, he wondered if there was any way he could work to help people , and that is when he came across books on environmental issues such as “Silent Spring” by Rachel Carson.
He thought, “If we solve environmental problems, maybe we can save 6 billion people (the Earth's population at that time)?” He entered the world of landscape architecture to generate spaces that would solve environmental problems.
| Education |
2007: Graduated from Chiba University, Faculty of Horticulture, Department of Green Space and Environmental Studies
2009: Graduated from Chiba University Graduate School of Horticulture (Mitani Toru Laboratory)
2014: Completed doctoral course at Graduate School of Horticulture, Chiba University (Toru Mitani Laboratory)
| Career History |
2009-2010: Worked at OKRA in the Netherlands under the Agency for Cultural Affairs' Emerging Artists Dispatch Program
2015-2017: Established SfG landscape architects
2017- : SFG Landscape Architects Co., Ltd. established

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Registered Landscape Designer
Megumi Hatada
Megumi Hatada spent her childhood in Sasebo City, Nagasaki, where the shipbuilding industry thrived, and Ikeda City, Osaka, which is famous for its planting industry. After studying landscape design in civil engineering, she joined a landscape office mainly in Switzerland. While experiencing various outdoor spaces in Europe, she pondered about the importance of public space. Currently, she is living in Iida City, Nagano, while participating in SfG. She is in charge of station plazas and street spaces, but is also interested in hardscape such as bridges and canopies, as well as soft landscape such as glass gardens.
| Education|
2017: Graduated from Osaka City University, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Urban Studies
2021: Kyoto University, Graduate School of Engineering, Department of Infrastructural Engineering
Master's degree in landscape design
| Work experience|
2021: Ueya Kato Landscape Architecture (Kyoto)
2021-2023: Enea Landscape Architecture, Zurich
2023: Joined SfG landscape architects

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Maaya Suda
Landscape Designer
She spent her childhood in the rich nature of the Hasama River in Kurihara, Miyagi Prefecture, where swans and fireflies fly around.
She experienced the Great East Japan Earthquake (3.11) when she was in fifth grade and subsequently studied architecture. After meeting Akihiko Ono, she became fascinated with landscape design. As she searched for ways to coexist with water, she was drawn to the Netherlands, one of the world's richest waterfront areas, and is now preparing to study abroad there.
She is pursuing a way of being in a landscape that will remain in place even after a person's lifetime.
| Education|
2025: Nagoya City University Graduate School of Arts and Engineering,
Bachelor's Degree Programme
(Research Laboratory of Akihiko Ono)
| Work experience|
2025: Joined SfG landscape architects

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Field production management / ceramicist
Satomi Takagi
Satomi Takagi grew up in the mountains of Yoro Town, Gifu Prefecture, where she spent her childhood getting close to dogs, horses, and nature. From her school days to the present, she has commuted to Okishima, a remote island in Shiga Prefecture, where she has been exposed to the lives of people living with nature.At SfG, she is mainly in charge of private gardens, such as a garden for animals and an artist's garden.She places importance on creating gardens as if she were creating a story by observing the subject with her own tools and deriving the design through attending to the land. She is currently participating in a PJ project for an orphanage and a PJ project to connect streets.Her goal is to be involved in creating places where the healing power of landscape can be utilized.Her interests include book making, horse therapy, and exploring materials.
| Educational Background |
2018: Graduated from the Department of Life Sciences, Graduate School of Living Environment Design, Sugiyama Jogakuen University
2020: Graduated from the Master's Program in the Graduate School of Design and Architecture at Nagoya City University
| Work history |
2020-: Joined SfG landscape architects
|Exhibition|
2022: Solo exhibition "Letters to the Other Side"