Community Development Starting With Creative Activities Around Declining Industrial Area

Abstract

This study aims to clarify the succession of the community development and explore the promotion of settlement through reutilization of unoccupied houses starting with creative activities. We focus on the case of Baika Sikanjima in Osaka. It is a case of community development through the creative activities that is being processed independently without public funds. The results of this study are as follows; 1) Artists who participated in the art event settled and created their ateliers. 2) The art event which artists exhibited their works in vacant houses has been gradually changed to open their ateliers to the public. 3) It is important that there is a framework for promoting settlement that having art event, unoccupied house tour, trial living program, brokerage and renovation. 4) To realize the settle down and continue, it is also important that business for reutilization of unoccupied houses should be valid for the organizers. 5) It is necessary to consider the relationship between the artists and the local residents.

Characteristics of co‐renovation (part 1): Effectiveness of renovation in detached house areas for human connections, case study in Shioya, Kobe

“…Harada 11 focused on the creativity of renovation by residents, finding that the development of self‐built spaces for stores and residences in central city areas creates places that encourage creation, communication, and exchange, suggesting the possibility of addressing regional challenges. In a study of organizations and systems that support community development through renovation, Mitsuya 12 summarized the requirements for an intermediary support organization supporting the renovation of vacant houses in the central city area, and Lee 13 studied town development, beginning with the creative activities of large landowner companies in areas with declining industry. For the formation of connections and networks in residential areas, Takeda 14 studied the renovation of residential networks and local community formation, focusing on the process of building networks from the beginning of residence in residential areas that have become senior towns, and identified requirements for local community formation, such as participation in hobbies that generate peer exchange.…”