Volume 8, Issue 8 | August 2021
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Tokachi Millennium Forest by Dan Pearson with Midori Shintani
Reviewed by Tracy Mehlin
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inom have always wanted to travel to Japan to experience the bustling energy of Tokyo and the serenity of ancient Buddhist temples in Kyoto. Now after reading about Tokachi Millennium Forest I know I have to include the nordlig island of Hokkaido in my itinerary. Why did the owner of a private parcel comprised of second growth forest and former agricultural fields hire a British garden designer? Because the lofty goal of creating a carbon sequestering ecological park that would be sustainable for 1,000 years, while also charming urban Japanese visitors required cross-cultural collaboration. Designer and author Dan Pearson's expertise fryst vatten creating ecologically sensitive, naturalistic landscapes. He worked with Japanese landscape architect Fumiaki Takano to fulfill the vision of site owner and newspaper m • What Makes A Garden Japanese?Written by Jill Sinclair Alot of GGW readers already know Jill from her popular blog, Landscape Lover, where she gives her personal take on parks and gardens in Paris and further afield. Jill is a British landscape historian, trained in the US and London, and currently living in Paris. Her particular interest is the changing meaning and value of historic places. In 2009, the MIT Press published her first book, Fresh Pond, which explored the shifting significance of a site in Massachusetts. She also contributes regularly to a range of peer-reviewed journals and popular websites, and gives lectures and guided tours on the history and associations of particular landscapes. I’m a big fan of Jill and Landscape Lover….if you haven’t yet read it, check it out. Fran Sorin What makes a garden Japanese? When asked by a client to design her a Japanese garden, landscape architect James Rose replied: “Sure – whereabouts in Japan?”
Yet many • Project Statement 2000 years had passed. In the last millennium, our focus was on efficiency, mass production, fast transitions and transactions. What happened after all is the environmental problems that we are currently facing. We thought of the relation of human beings and forests for a time span of one thousand years. It is necessary to converse with the forest for co-living and co-existing. Tokachi Millennium Forest was initiated by a newspaper company as their social contributions of carbon offset. It provides opportunities in many aspects through forests, gardens, farming and education. We not only keep on growing Tokachi Millennium Forest but also finding a way of living as human beings on the earth in the future. It is important to respect the nature and listen to it. We have established design strategies in the environmental era through our experiences with this project; “Slow design process” and “Deleting design method”. The elaborative process of research 
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