Abstract
Why have our public environment become hard and banal blandscape? How important is an aesthetically pleasing public environment to personal well-being? It emphasizes linkages between vitalization of people's life and life's fulfillment of environment, which I call creative community design.
This article describes the meaning of environment learning through creative community design with an analysis of the building and management process of Nekojyarashi Park. It is located in Setagaya ward. The site's size is 2700 After resident's movement for 5 years, they participated in planning process of the park.
As a communal task of a series of workshop, the community-build project has many benefits, that are often the oppsite to conventional building methods.
It can provide a place with special landscape taste and an interesing and worthwhile experience for those participating, and also an opportunity to produce a good and open human network in the neighbourhood.
Creative community design with a participatory design and management is a totally situated environment learning process. In such circumstance's work, it produces not only an aesthetically nourishing environment, but also inspiring the human spirit and relation.
