人それぞれの多様性を前提にして、コミュニケーションを成立させていく上で〈ワークショップ〉という手法、その役割が広く注目されています。
多様性が新しいカタチを生み出すという思いは、私たちが〈集団〉であることと深く関わっています。
〈ワークショップ〉にしても〈集団〉であることも主体性をもつこと、「私は」で語ること、考えることが最も大切です。
Whenever we start a workshop, we notice the method of communication that is being formed among all the various participants as they are planning. The diversity which gives birth to a new figure is related to the concept of our ﾒgroupﾓ. Whichever the case, in a workshop or as a group, the most important factor is expressing oneﾕs individuality.
人々の自力建設。プロ数人その他多勢。延べ120名ぐらいか。保母さん・ジュータン屋・役人・全国から集まった学生たち。ボロ太のクギをぬき、大きさをそろえ、刻む。上棟式にはモチをつき、酒を飲んだ。ドロだんごも積んだ。出来上がったのかまだ工事中なのか。ただなつかしいものができたような気分だ。
Exertive Building. A few professionals and mostly amateurs. In all about 120 people. Caretakers, a carpet salesman, government officials, students from all over Japan. After nails were pulled from the beat up lumber, they were planed, then chiseled. At the beam raising ceremony, rice cakes were pounded and everybody got drunk. Even mud bricks were laid. Is the building finished or still under construction? All we know is something that can be fondly remembered has been built.
チップ工場に集められる十勝中の住宅廃材からエゾマツ、トドマツ、カラマツ、ナラなど約500本を分けていただき、構造材として新しい保育所の柱に、梁にそしてべんがらを塗って、紅々と再生。
0歳から就学までの20人程度が暮らす。グルーピングも職員室ももちろんない。保育所よりは大家族に近い。
家族とともに変化、成長する保育所。
There is a wood chip factory in Tokachi that gets its wood from demolished houses. We gathered about 500 pieces of used pine and oak lumber there. They were reused for the columns and beams of the nursery. After, we painted them a bright Indian red.
Babies less than a year old to preschool children, in all about twenty kids, spend their days at Hikari Nursery. There arenﾕt any classrooms or a teacherﾕs room. Hikari Nursery isnﾕt like a ﾒnurseryﾓ; itﾕs more like a big family. Like a family, there is change and growth at Hikari Nursery.
大雪山系の足もと鹿追町の農家からねばりのある赤い土を分けていただき、土間のたたき、泥団子の壁、日干しレンガの壁として鹿追の土は日々、様々な表情をつくり出している。
Near the Taisetsu mountains, we got sticky red soil from a farm in the town of Shikaoi. Used for the earthen floor and sun dried bricks for the walls, it presents us a new appearance everyday.
いまだ未完成。そして改築、増築。つくり続けながら、これからも未完成。また夏が来たら、ワークショップ、夏祭りで人々が集う。
Even now Hikari Nursery is unfinished. From now it will be remodeled and added onto. Even then it will still be unfinished. Come summer, people will gather once again to build, to talk, and to drink at the workshops and festivals.