Planetary Agenda – Sony CSL

This research area addresses planetary-scale challenges such as climate change and the biodiversity crisis. While aiming to build sustainable societies and ecosystems within the limits of environmental resources, capacities we focus on practical actions that extend beyond theoretical studies, contributing to solutions for global challenges in real-world and regional contexts.

Worldviews

New imaginaries for the ecological transition

Developing small-scale farming to study future possibilities - Peter Hanappe

Reseach Areas	Planetary Agenda Augmented Societies
Researchers

Synecoculture™ and Augmented Ecosystems

Synecoculture that overcomes the trade-off between productivity and environmental damage - Masatoshi Funabashi

Reseach Areas	Planetary Agenda Augmented Societies
Researchers

Projects

Syneco Portal

Synecoculture Principles Learning Kit

SynecO, Inc

Synecoculture™

Synecoculture that overcomes the trade-off between productivity and environmental damage

OTOTAKE PROJECT 2018

Technology Overcomes Barriers.

News & Articles

[INFO] Synecoculture was featured in the World Economic Forum's white paper.

Climate Adaptation: Unlocking Value Chains with the Power of Technology

2025年2月12日

[TOPIC] Synecoculture has been featured on Sony Group’s portal site.

2024年12月20日

[Event 9/20]The Future of Climate Summit VOL II

Dr. Funabashi will talk at this event.

2024年9月2日

[Article]A paper by M. Funabashi has been published in npj Sustainable Agriculture.

Power-law productivity of highly biodiverse agroecosystems supports land recovery and climate resilience

2024年5月14日

WWF Japan, WWF-Indonesia, Sony Group and SynecO launch pilot project to utilize Synecoculture™ for forest restoration in Sumatra

2024年2月19日

[INFO] Centre Africain de Recherche et de Formation en Synécoculture (CARFS) has posted videos of farms introducing Synecoculture.

2024年1月9日

[INFO] Dr.Funabashi talks at a seminar at COP28 Japan Pavilion.

2024年1月8日

[INFO] Syneco Portal : Synecoculture™ Learning Kit Handbook

Updated version now available in English and French

2023年12月22日

Publications

Funabashi, Masatoshi

Vegee Brain Automata: Ultradiscretization of Essential Chaos Transversal in Neural and Ecosystem Dynamics

Complex Computational Ecosystems | pages 133--150, 2023

Endo, Ken and Uchida, Naoki and Morita, Ryusuke and Tawara, Tetsuo

Preliminary Investigation of Powered Knee Prosthesis with Small-Scale, Light-Weight, and Affordable Series-Elastic Actuator for Walking Rehabilitation of a Patient with Four-limb Deficiency

2022 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) | IEEE | pages 01--06, May, 2022

Masatoshi Funabashi and Tomoyuki Minami

Dynamical assessment of aboveground and underground biodiversity with supportive AI

Measurement: Sensors | Vol.18, pages 100167, 2021