鹿児島県姶良市の廃校を活用し、新たな小学校づくりを進める古川理沙。「学校は地域のハブであり、コモンである」という視点のもと、その地域に存在する人材やリソースを活かしながら、コミュニティを育む学びの場を構想しています。〈学び場〉を起点に地域の生産者や商店街との関係性を育み、小さな経済圏を生み出してきた古川を招くセッション３では、こうした地域の自律性を育む実践を手がかりに、価値や関係性が地域の中でどのように育まれていくのかを見つめるとともに、〈自律的デザイン〉の視点からそれらを読み解き、これからの地域のあり方について考えます。

In Aira city, Kagoshima prefecture, Risa Furukawa is re-purposing a defunct elementary school to create a new kind of elementary school. Based on the perspective that “a school is a community hub and a commons,” her vision is a learning space that cultivates community by drawing on talent and resources that already exist in the local area. With her learning space as a launching point, she has fostered relationships with local producers and shopping districts to create a small economic ecosystem. Furukawa has been invited as a speaker in Session 3 in which we explore how value and relationships take shape within a community through practices that nurture local autonomy. We will also examine how these dynamics can be interpreted from the perspective of “autonomous design” and what they might mean for the future of regional communities.