著者

金山 喜昭

出版者

法政大学キャリアデザイン学部

雑誌

法政大学キャリアデザイン学部紀要 (ISSN:13493043)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.3, pp.237-256, 2006-03

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Machizukuri(literally,"town construction")is the building of a city for and by the citizens who would like the town to be better than before. It has often been used to solve the problems of a town. In Noda,a town in Chiba prefecture,people used not to have any living energy,and the streets were lonely and poor. Improving them was necessary for people to communicate with each other. My colleagues and I established Noda Culture Square in January 2005 to solve this problem;in May 2005,it became a Non-Profit Organization of the prefecture with 30 regular members and 11 student menmbers,it has lectures called Terakoya(an old term meaning a school run by a temple):workers talk about their careers and skills,persons,who learn to compose accomplishments,talk about theirs,hands-on learning is provided for children and their parents. And we made a map which shows buildings in the old town. A party held on the day of the harvest moon gathered about 90 people. The members have felt something come alive from these activities,having a mission in common. This was shown by a questionnaire survey. On the other hand I founud that we had not been commmunicating with each other as well as we would have liked. And a lot of members felt as if they weren't contributing to the activities of Noda Culture Square. I think it is necessary for them to communicate with other menmbers and contribute to the activities in some way:arranging parties among members,urging people to join Terakoya,etc. Perhaps they would be bettre off. But if they don't like to join in,I could not force them to do so. In Machizukuri,I have found that communicating with members is based on how we realize the mission at the first stage. And it is important for them to improve their life through Machizukuri.