Effects of the expansive personal use in the planning and practicing workshop for park redevelopment

Abstract

The planning and practicing workshops about park use are being conducted against the backdrop of the growing importance of expansive personal use and the fact that many parks are about to undergo a period of redevelopment. This research, focusing on the expansive personal use in planning and practicing workshops for park redevelopment, aims to identify findings that will be useful in redeveloping parks and the value of utilizing parks and to suggest how this value can be enhanced. Based on the questionnaire surveys conducted in the planning and practicing workshop, the social experiment at Kongo Chuo Park, and the interview survey with the workshop organizers, the following points were clarified. The values of utilizing parks are increasing the expandability of daily personal uses in the parks, cultivating a positive awareness of others, creating the awareness of objectively evaluating their own personal uses, and changing the consciousness regarding parks. The finding for park redevelopment is for planners to recognize that they are important to focus on improving the autonomy of park use and to create highly visible parks. To increase the value of the workshops, it is important to procure tools to spend on its own, and to decide where to spend, too.