Abstract
In Japan, agricultural water channels have important roles as regional resource not only for irrigation but also for recreation, conservation of ecosystem and so on. All regional inhabitants owe immense benefits to water channel. But recognition by inhabitants for water channel as regional resource are fading because of aging population and increasing farmers with side job and non-farmers. We need to reconsider the way to involve people to conserve water channel. In this situation, Tojogawa area tries to make inhabitants know better about water channel as regional resource by holding art events since 2014. In this research, we collected questionnaires from the participants of art events and non-art events, and investigated the change of their consciousness before and after the event. As a result, it turned out that the art event enhanced their consciousness more than those events without artistic elements.
