Collaborative Planning Process Design Based on Environmental Information—Consideration From the Existing Researches and the Implementations in Kutsuki, Takashima—

Abstract

This paper reports the overview of research stream regarding the post-modern public participation and the current situation of public participation implementation in Kutsuki district, Takashima city. The current research of public participation put importance not only on the scientific approach and procedural fairness such as meaningful reply among the stakeholders, but also on the understanding the facts from the multi-sided viewpoints and making action plan based on the shared fact understandings and the individual situations. To understand the trend of the existing research, this paper set two axes named “planning process” and “information processing.” Based on the dimensions, the characteristics of the participation design have been analyzed such as “joint-fact-finding” and “gaming simulation.” In addition, the implementation has been described about public participation to planning process in Kutsuki district, Takashima city, Japan, in which the authors are conducting the action-research. From the descriptions, the authors analyzed three methods’ characteristics, the achievement through the implementations and the problem to overcome in the future actions.