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.

古川理沙
私立新留小学校設立準備財団共同代表、対話型カンファレンス「薩摩会議」を主催するNPO法人薩摩リーダーシップフォーラムSELF共同代表。韓国、中国、日本の大学や民間教育機関で教壇に立つとともに、カリキュラム開発や教科書執筆を行う。元ACTFL OPI Tester。ひより保育園、そらのまちほいくえん、日当山無垢食堂を運営し、「食とことば」を軸に子どもの学びと地域のリデザインに取り組んでいる。

Risa Furukawa
Co-Representative of the Newdome Elementary School Establishment Preparatory Foundation and Co-Representative of SELF (Satsuma Leadership Forum), an NPO that organizes the dialogue-based conference “Satsuma Conference.” He has taught at universities and private educational institutions in South Korea, China, and Japan, while also developing curricula and writing textbooks. A former ACTFL OPI Tester, he operates Hiyori Nursery School, Sora no Machi Nursery School, and Hiyatama Muku Shokudo, and works to redesign children’s learning and local communities through the themes of “food and language.”