Promote Community Development Using Environmentally Friendly Energy and Residence in Kankai Town
Assoc. Prof. Motoharu Onuki
Department of international studies, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo
Research KW: Sustainability Science Education
[Aim]
Designate Kankai Town in the vicinity of Shinchi Station as a new activity center aiming to achieve environmental symbiosis, local production and consumption of energy, and full preparedness for disasters.
Pose a series of questions to residents in Kankai Town, such as what they see as a desirable community development (environmental energy community development) and where they find their identifies in the town.
Discover and create cultural identities of a new town through interviews with residents and discussions among them to promote community development and residential settlement.
[Activities]
Cultural mapping
Identify tangible/intangible cultural resources to understand the community's uniqueness and identities.
Play a role to connect smart technology and residents (smart citizens).
Workshops with residents participation are being prepared at Kashiwa-no-ha Smart City by graduate students. The workshops will later be used for exercises in Shinchi Town.
Online interactive mapping
Cultural resources identified from interviews and surveys are depicted on a map. Clicking on a site icon will bring up relevant interview footage and information.
<Activities and plans for this year>
●Document review on the reconstruction project of the town center area around Shinchi Station (Kankaitown)
●Theme setting: Promotion and establishment of Kankaitown and environmental energy communty development
●Development of cultural mapping workshop methodology (to be conducted in Kashiwa-no-ha Smart City, Kashiwa City from November 2021 - January 2022)
●[2021] preliminary survey by RA
●[2022-] Recruitment of students to participate in exercises and start of exercises