Ryotaro Urai
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koyasan workshop
Planning and Practice of “Furusato Learning” in Koya Town 2020
Action / 2020 / KOYASAN
Many of the small regional cities are experiencing an ongoing population outflow of the younger generation, who are expected to be the next-generation leaders of the region. As a response to this situation, not a few elementary and junior high schools across the country are implementing community development learning. Such community development learning is expected to nurture children's interest in the community, promote resident participation, and acquire the knowledge and skills necessary to promote community development. Under such circumstances, at Koyasan Junior High School in Koya-cho, which has a world heritage site and is famous as a tourist destination, but whose population has been declining in recent years, new efforts are being made to learn about town development in the "hometown study" that is carried out during integrated study time. is what happened.
Implementation process of hometown learning
Koyasan, located in the northeastern part of Wakayama Prefecture, is a Buddhist city centered on World Heritage Sites such as ``Danjo Garan'', the main training hall of Shingon Esoteric Buddhism, and ``Okunoin'', the mausoleum of Kukai. , an area visited by 1.2 million tourists a year from all over the world. Koya Town has made the enhancement of "hometown learning" one of its important educational policies, and with the plan to integrate elementary and junior high school with Koyasan Elementary School in 2024, the curriculum will continue to learn about the local area for nine years from the first grade of elementary school. is being designed. The contents of the ``Furusato Study'', which has been implemented for first-year students at Koyasan Junior High School, differed depending on the homeroom teacher, but in all cases, the content was centered on research to learn about the history and traditional industries of Koyasan. Teacher A, who will be a first-year homeroom teacher in 2020, will consider planning a town development study with the theme of "Thinking about the future of the town of Koyasan" in this "hometown study". At that time, the author, who was consulted, decided to plan and implement the town planning study together with Teacher A.
Plan contents of hometown study
In response to Koya-cho's efforts to create a walkable town environment, the authors set the theme, "Let's propose what we want Koya-cho to look like 15 years from now." Specifically, we ask questions such as, "How do we want to use the attractive public spaces that dot Koyasan?" The students will think about "" and present the contents of "Future Urban Space of Koyasan". In addition, the sub-theme was set to create a town where local residents and tourists can enjoy walking by connecting tourist attractions with the focus on ``little-known attractive spots'' instead of famous tourist spots. The class consists of four steps: Step 1: Idea Creation (5 hours), Step 2: Fieldwork (12 hours), Step 3: Town Future Concept (5 hours), Step 4: Future Concept Presentation (7 hours). It was planned to be divided into 2 parts and to be held 18 times for 29 hours in total.
Step1: Idea making
Nine students were divided into three groups and engaged in group work to examine "places in Koyasan that we want to improve" and "ideas for people to enjoy there". Before the group work, the author gave a lecture on conservation of Koyasan's historical landscape and community development. However, all of the groups remained with vague ideas, so in the second work, the students drew a map of ``places they would like to see improved'' on their familiar route to school, and asked them to ``make the places enjoyable for residents and tourists.'' Thinking about spatial ingenuity for After the second workshop, the town mayor gave a lecture on Koya Town's town planning policy.
Step2: Fieldwork
In order for the students to physically grasp the actual urban space, they worked on fieldwork for about 100 minutes x 3 times. In the fieldwork, the students drew ideas for the use of the space by drawing sketches on-site at three target sites (Kanarin Park, Benten Park, and a parking lot with Kannon-do) selected by the authors in advance based on the proposals made by each group. It was investigated. During the fieldwork, the students received an explanation of the target area from the author's point of view of inheriting the historical space.
Step 3: Future conception of the entire town
Students worked on group work to draw a future image of the town based on discussions among students. The content is to connect each fieldwork target area and tourist attractions with flow lines so that residents and tourists can discover new attractions of Koyasan, and to consider ideas that make people want to walk around the entire town. . In doing so, the authors advise the students to broaden their perspective on the whole town and develop multifaceted ideas.
Step4：Announcement of future concept
The students revised the composition and scenario of the presentations they had prepared so far, and presented the final product at learning presentations on campus and exchange meetings with junior high school students from friendship cities. However, the initially planned proposal to the town mayor was not carried out due to lack of preparation time.
Outcomes of hometown learning
All the first-year students made a proposal about the idea of a base for walking around the city connecting sightseeing spots, which was a theme set by the author in advance, and compiled it into a three-minute video using illustrations. In Step 1, students share the local issue that tourists visit famous tourist spots and there are few people walking around the city, and they will work on "place creation" at shrines, Kanawa Park, Benten Park, Kannon-do, shops, community centers, etc. discussed the idea of In step 2, the ideas for improving the space in the parking lot of Kanawa Park, Benten Park, and Kannon-do include setting up a stone-paved approach to improve the scenery of the pagoda and shrine, as well as stalls and souvenirs aimed at attracting customers and staying for a certain period of time. We examined the installation of shops and benches. Then, in Step 3, the idea was developed into an overall urban design idea with three locations as bases for walking around the city, and proposals such as sharing bicycles and setting up bases for shrines and temples stamp rallies were compiled as the final deliverable.
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Paper published in Architectural Institute of Japan Technical Reports
Presentation sheet