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MARIIA Ermilova
Faculty of Sustainability Studies　Department of Sustainability Studies
Lecturer

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    https://researchmap.jp/mariiaermilova

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    My teaching and research focus on children’s outdoor play within the context of a changing climate, exploring how urban greenery can act as 'living tools' to foster a sense of belonging and community, as well as intergenerational and intercultural communication. Additionally, I am interested in utilizing drawing as a method for understanding and studying spatial environments.


     


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Researcher information

■ External links
■ Degree
  • Ph.D. (Agriculture), Chiba University, Mar. 2020
  • MSc in Ecology and Environmental Management, Lobachevsky State University of Nizhni Novgorod (UNN), Jul. 2014
  • Bachelor in Ecology, Lobachevsky State University of Nizhni Novgorod (UNN), Jul. 2012
■ Research Keyword
  • climate change adaptation
  • children's play
  • participatory design
  • landscape design
  • biocultural diversity
  • edible landscape
  • ethnobotany
  • drawing as a research method
■ Field Of Study
  • Environmental science/Agricultural science, Rural environmental engineering and planning, Landscape planning
  • Environmental science/Agricultural science, Social-ecological systems, TEK, traditional environmental knowledge, wild edible plants, rural revitalization, children's play
  • Social infrastructure (civil Engineering, architecture, disaster prevention), Social systems engineering, Community participatory design
  • Humanities & social sciences, Local studies, biocultural diversity manifestations in folk arts

Career

■ Career
  • Apr. 2026 - Present
    Hosei University, Faculty of Sustainability Studies Department of Sustainability Studies, Lecturer
  • Oct. 2024 - Mar. 2026
    Research Institute for Children's Physical Health
  • Jan. 2024 - Aug. 2025
    Toyo University, Faculty of Sociology, adjunct lecturer
  • Aug. 2022 - Jan. 2024
    Toyo University, Department of Global Diversity Studies, Research assitant
■ Educational Background
  • Sep. 2015 - Mar. 2020, Chiba University, Graduate School of Horticulture, Environmental Science and Landscape Architecture
  • Sep. 2012 - Jul. 2014, Lobachevsky State University of Nizhni Novgorod (UNN), Department of Biology, Ecology and Environmental Management
  • Sep. 2008 - Jul. 2012, Lobachevsky State University of Nizhni Novgorod (UNN), Department of Biology, Ecology
  • Sep. 1997 - Jul. 2008, MBOU Lyceum №8 Nizhny Novgorod
■ Member History
  • Mar. 2016 - Nov. 2023
    Manager, Iwase Neighborhood Association

Research activity information

■ Award
  • Dec. 2024
    AJJ (Anthropology of Japan in Japan), The Befu Prize runner up
    Growing Knowledge Together: Plant Cultivation as a Method of Collaborative Anthropology in a Japanese Neighborhood.
    presenter Mariia Ermilova
  • 2023
    Children’s Folklore Section of the American Folklore Society, The Opie Prize 2023-2024
    Play in a COVID Frame: Pandemic Creativity in a Time of Isolation (Open Book, 2023)
    A collective of book editors and authors
  • May 2021
    Society of Ethnobiology, Majority World Conference Travel Award
    Mariia Ermilova
  • Apr. 2019
    College Women's Association of Japan (CWAJ), The College Women's Association of Japan (CWAJ) Graduate Scholarship for Non-Japanese Women to Study in Japan
    Mariia Ermilova
  • 2018
    Pacific RIM Community Design Network, Pacific RIM Award Honorable Mentions: Design for Social Impact
    EDIBLE WAY;project
  • Nov. 2017
    Japanese Institute of Landscape Architecture, Best Presentation Award
    Various environmental improvement activities by students collaboration ~ possibility of Green Corridor Project in Matsudo city
    Green Corridor working group
  • Nov. 2017
    Japan Institute of Design Promotion, Good Design Award
    Community Participatory Edible landscaping [EDIBLE WAY Project]
    EDIBLE WAY project
  • Dec. 2016
    Association for Creating Japan Tomorrow, Promotion Encouragement Award (Tomorrow's Town / Living Activities)
    Creation of a New Neighborhood Association, Japan, Japan society
    Iwase Neighborhood Association
  • Nov. 2016
    Japanese Institute of Landscape Architecture, Encouragement Award
    Construction of a preventive safety net utilizing an edible landscape (edible landscape)
    EDIBLE WAY project
  • Apr. 2015
    Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), Japanese government MEXT scholarship
    Mariia Ermilova
  • May 2008
    United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and Volvo Car Corporation, First Prize Volvo Adventure International Award
    Green Sail team;youth;envi;ducation organization;prize;USD was spent;on;creating;an;envir;ucation center for children in Nizhegorodskaya oblast in Russia
■ Paper
■ MISC
■ Books and other publications
■ Lectures, oral presentations, etc.
  • Growing Knowledge Together: Plant Cultivation as a Method of Collaborative Anthropology in a Japanese Neighborhood　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    Mariia Ermilova
    AJJ (Anthropology of Japan in Japan), Annual meeting for 2024 at Tohoku University, Japan, 01 Dec. 2024
  • Attitudes of citizens towards wild native flower floral mat as a landscape element in Japanese urban community gardens.　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    Mariia, ERMILOVA; Mitsunari, TERADA
    Integrating Biodiversity in Urban Planning and Design Processes 2022 URBIO network conference, 29 Nov. 2022
  • Growing Roots in the Japanese Neighborhood: Green Community Projects and Homemaking lived by Female Russian Scholar in Japan　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    Mariia Ermilova
    Junctures, Ruptures, and Reframings: Exploring Community-building, Integration, and Transnational (Dis)connectivity of the Russian-speaking Migrants in Japan; The 14th Forum of Hakusan Society of Anthropology, Toyo University Hakusan Campus, 26 Nov. 2022, [Invited]
  • Building Social Capital by Rethinking Childhood and Local Built Environments for Sustainable Community Design　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    Isami Kinoshita; Mitsunari Terada; Nobuko Matsumoto; Mari Yoshinaga; Norie Miwa; Rena Nagai; Mariia Ermilova
    APRU Sustainable Cities & Landscapes Hub 5th Conference, 08 Sep. 2022
  • Action research for creating local community disaster prevention plan by neighborhood association.　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    Mariia ERMILOVA; Mitsunari TERADA
    Annual Meeting Architectural Institute of Japan (Hokkaido) 2022, 07 Sep. 2022
  • ONLINE CONFERENCE: E-MIGRAGEING 11-12 MAY 2022 Art in E-Migrageing: Ethnographic sketches of community residence project
    Mariia Ermilova
    12 May 2022, Karlstad University, Toyo University
  • Playing Underground: Supporting Children Exploration of Public Open Space Under Pandemic and School Restrictions　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    Mitsunari Terada; Mariia Ermilova
    Back to the Field? Community Design After COVID-19 hosted by the Pacific Rim Community Design Network and APRU Sustainable Cities & Landscapes Research Hub, 17 Aug. 2021
  • Landscape Resource for Community during Pandemic: Case from Urban Japan　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    Mariia Ermilova; Mitsunari Terada
    Back to the Field? Community Design After COVID-19 hosted by the Pacific Rim Community Design Network and APRU Sustainable Cities & Landscapes Research Hub, 17 Aug. 2021
  • Wildflowers and poetry in Japanese garden: on designing garden with native plants　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    Ermilova Mariia; Terada Mitsunari
    International Scientific Conference "Japanese Gardens: Botany, Semantics, Landscape", May 31 - June 03, 2021 in the Peter the Great Botanical Garden of the Botanical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (St. Petersburg) online conference, 02 Jun. 2021
  • Japanese Tsurushibina Folk Art as Biocultural Code: TEK Embodied in the Silk Scraps Amulets　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    Ermilova Mariia Terada Mitsunari
    2021 Virtual Conference of the Society of Ethnobiology, May 12–14, 2021, 13 May 2021
  • Children's Play with Nature Across Generations: From Childhood Play Biographies to “Bio-Playtope”　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    Isami Kinoshita; Mitsunari Terada; Mariia Ermilova
    NLI ( Nature Learning Initiative ) Design Institute 20th Anniversary presentations, 26 Mar. 2021, [Invited]
  • Practical research on planning a play space based on the actual situation of children's outdoor play: case of Minakami Town, Gunma Prefecture　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    Terada, M; Ermilova, M; Abe, K; Kinoshita, I
    Japan Society for Environmental Education, 31st Annual Meeting (Online Meeting) Aug 22, 2020, 22 Aug. 2020
  • The change in knowledge of wild edible plants among children of three generations in Minakami town, Gunma　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    Ermilova, M; Terada, M; Abe, K; Kinoshita, I
    Japan Society for Environmental Education, 31st Annual Meeting (Online Meeting), 22 Aug. 2020
  • Sketch walk as a tool of landscape evaluation: case of Iwase, Matsudo　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    ERMILOVA Mariia; TERADA Mitsunari; KINOSHITA Isami; ALOMAR Richard
    2020 Japanese Institute of Landscape Architecture National Convention, May 2020
  • Biocultural diversity concept potential for ESD on example of Japanese classical literature　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    Ermilova M; Terada M; Kinoshita I
    XV International Scientific and Practical Conference on Education for Sustainable Development. Nizhni Novgorod State Pedagogical University, Nizhni Novgorod, Russia, Nov. 2019
  • Participatory Mapping and Landscape Planning in the Aging Community: Implications from Action Research in Iwase Neighborhood Association Matsudo, Japan　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    Ermilova M., Terada M, Eguchi A, Abe K, Kinoshita I.
    International Conference 2019 on Spatial Planning and Sustainable Development, Chiba University, Matsudo, Japan, 30 Aug. 2019
  • Possibility of a theater workshop as a community association activity in a suburban residential area-A case study of the Iwase Neighborhood Association in Matsudo City
    Kenichi Abe; Mitsunari Terada; Ermilova Mariia; Kinoshita Isami
    Japan Society of Lifology, 46th Research Presentation Conference, Jun. 2019
  • 学生の多様な地域活動の連携によるプラットフォームの構築について-みどりの回廊ワーキンググループを事例として-　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    武田奈緒; 江口亜維子; エルミロヴァマリア; 大塚文恵; 佐々木圭
    日本造園学会関東支部, Dec. 2018
  • Community Participatory Edible Landscape: EDIBLE WAY Project　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    Eguchi, A; Ermilova, M; Abe, K; Kinoshita, I
    Great Asian Streets Symposium / Pacific Rim Community Design Network / Structures for Inclusion, National University of Singapore, Dec. 2018
  • Cultivating Local Community as ‘Community of Practice’ Using Landscape as a Medium - The project of Students Live in Community Center, Matsudo, Japan　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    Ermilova M., Terada M., Eguchi A., Abe K., Kinoshita I.
    Great Asian Streets Symposium / Pacific Rim Community Design Network / Structures for Inclusion, National University of Singapore,, Dec. 2018
  • 大学生、自治会館に住む。 -ゆるやかな地域関係の再構築から地域の教育機能の再考する　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    寺田光成; エルミロヴァマリア; 田中留利; 富田文子
    日本建築学会,子ども支援建築会議,建築会館,, Jun. 2018
  • Why do we need adventure playground in Japanese Rural Areas?−Revitalization Project of Ishikawa Town, Fukushima−　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    Terada Mitsunari, Ermilova Mariia, Kinoshita Isami
    InternationalPlay Association,IPA 20th Triennial Conference in Calgary, Canada, Sep. 2017
  • Biocultural diversity and biophilic design in Japanese regional revitalization strategy for straitening place’s identity - case study of Inatori district of Higashiizu town, Japan.　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    Ermilova Mariia
    The 6th ACLA International Symposium: Urban Cultural Landscape and Urban Regeneration, Jul. 2017
■ Courses
  • Cultural anthropology　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    Apr. 2024 - Present
    Toyo University
  • Cultural anthropology　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    Apr. 2026 - Jul. 2026
    Toyo University
  • Ethnic Sports and Intercultural Communication　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    Apr. 2026 - Jul. 2026
    Faculty of Health and Sports Science, Toyo University
  • Ethnic Sports and Intercultural Communication　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    Apr. 2025 - Jul. 2025
    Faculty of Health and Sports Science, Toyo University
  • Environmental History of Japan　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    Sep. 2024 - Dec. 2024
    IES Abroad Tokyo
  • Contemporary Urban Society in Japan　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    Apr. 2024 - Jul. 2024
    IES Abroad Tokyo
  • Ecological observation practical course　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    Apr. 2021 - May 2021
    Otsuma Women's University
  • SO310 Contemporary Urban Society in Japan　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    Apr. 2020 - Jul. 2020
    IES Abroad Tokyo
  • International landscape design & studio - cross-cultural design collaboration (CCDC) Teaching Assistant　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    Jul. 2019 - Aug. 2019
    Chiba University Graduate School of Horticulture
  • International landscape design & studio - cross-cultural design collaboration (CCDC) Teaching Assistant　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    Jul. 2018 - Aug. 2018
    Chiba University Graduate School of Horticulture
  • International landscape design & studio - cross-cultural design collaboration (CCDC) Teaching Assistant　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    Jul. 2017 - Aug. 2017
    Chiba University Graduate School of Horticulture
■ Affiliated academic society
  • Nov. 2024 - Present
    Anthropology of Japan in Japan　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
  • Jun. 2021 - Present
    Japanese Society for Science Visualization (JSSV)　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
  • Oct. 2019 - Present
    Japanese Institute of Landscape Architecture　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
  • 2018 - Present
    Pacific Rim Community Design Network　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
  • Jan. 2018 - Present
    Society of Lifology　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
  • Apr. 2016 - Present
    Society of Ethnobiology　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
  • Apr. 2020 - Mar. 2024
    The Japanese Society for Environmental Education　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
  • 2017 - 2023
    Architectural Institute of Japan　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
■ Social Contribution Activities
  • College Women Association of Japan (CWAJ)　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    Annual Print Show publicity, SNS, 01 Jul. 2021 - 31 Mar. 2022
  • Urban Sketchers Japan chapter admin　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
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    01 Sep. 2017 - 31 Mar. 2021
■ Media Coverage
■ Academic Contribution Activities
  • Editorial member of Japanese Institute of Landscape Architecture Magazine　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
    Others
    Japanese Institute of Landscape Architecture, 01 Jul. 2021 - 31 May 2024