Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to set up a hypothesis on how to develop an ethnographic community. In this paper, the author reflects on his more than twenty years of experience of research on ethnographic as well as interactive community development, and he carries out abductive reasoning on its methods. In the process of examining his experiences of urban-ethnographic community development, of the Great Hanshin Earthquake Reconstruction and Town Planning, of resident-collaborative traffic community development, and of Osaka-city developments of the living-environment for children, the author once more recognizes that he sympathized with the activities of local residents, and reflects on ways of life and searches to find life values. Today, people’s lives and public concepts are important in ethnographic community development. Thus the following hypothesis is presented. The methods for ethnographic community development aim to share individual aspirations and the appreciation of lives, groups, and communities. Furthermore, through dialogue questions are found concerning sympathy and ways of life, local history, and life and public spirit. As a result, the lives of local people and their aspirations will be discovered and a very clear and understandable hypothesis will be presented. This paper will establish such an ethnographic community temporarily, and it will be called a community development of co-creation.
