京都大学で開催中の展示「あわいを繕う島 Abundant Island Notojima」では，2024年元旦能登半島地震で被災した能登島（石川県七尾市）を取り上げています。島の被災状況にくわえ，島の魅力や歴史・文化など，様々な角度から島の「今」に迫る工夫の一つとして108種類（2026年4月時点）のキャプションカードがあります。今回のワークショップでは，展示の内容を振り返るとともに，キャプションカードを参加者が手に取り語りあうことで，能登島の「今」と今後の可能性を掘り下げたいと思います。ゲストとして，「居方」の研究者として知られ，本にまつわる居場所づくりの研究・実践に取り組む鈴木毅氏，ならびに「あわいを繕う島」でキャプションカードのデザインを担当した斧澤未知子氏をお招きします。
Intersection of Social Image and Physical Space in a Former Tea Plantation Workers’ Tenement（Japan Architectural Review）
This study examines the interaction between social images and actual space in tenement houses, locally called line houses, on a tea plantation in Sri Lanka. The social image of line houses was analyzed based on the discourses of managers, supporters and residents, while tracing the history of tea plantations and its social development, and the physical characteristics and space of line houses were clarified following a field survey in a village, a former tea plantation in Kandy District. Line houses have been conventionally understood only in one aspect, as poor and inhuman living environments that need to be improved or eliminated. However, the results of this study show that the line houses have acquired a sense of place and inherited Tamil culture. This finding reinforces the recent discourse that attempts to reconsider the space of tea plantations from the perspective of the people who have lived there and may provide a basis for rethinking the government’s policy of resettling people on line houses.
This paper attempts to understand the connection between people and local communities from the aspect of “faith” in the Jizo-bon in Kyoto, which has been attracting attention in recent years as a foundation for local community. At least in Kyoto, people of all religions and denominations participate in Jizo-bon, and the religious aspect of the event is not strongly considered by the participants. However, Jizo-bon is rooted in “faith” centering on the act of enshrining Jizo, and it is certain that this is why it has continued for so long. The origin of Jizo-bon is said to date back to the middle of the Edo period at the latest. Without an understanding of how people relate to each other, to the environment, and to the world in this historical lifestyle culture, evaluating Jizo-bon based on modern values alone may in fact jeopardize its continuation.
