Culture-led Rural Revitalisation as Place-making Catalyst - The Roles of Architecture and Cultural Tourism

本研究以新泻县越后津万里艺术场、香川县濑户内三年展、熊本县熊本艺术城为例，探讨建筑与文化旅游在日本乡村振兴中的作用。在查阅相关文献后，于2013年7月和10月对濑户内三年展进行了两次实地考察，记录遗址、收集信息并采访各个层面的利益相关者--从导演和策展人到艺术家和建筑师，再到志愿者参与者。其中一部分研究是与国际合作研究人员Ari Seligmann博士（莫纳什大学）和Adrian Favell教授（巴黎政治学院）共同完成的，前者曾前往熊本艺术城进行实地考察，后者则采访了一些参与艺术家。基于这一实地考察的两篇文章发表在面向建筑和艺术领域学术受众的期刊上。这些文章探讨了思考“地方”的新方法，使用了“浮动选区”的概念，将全球和当地社区联系在一起，围绕着建成的地点;并提出了这样一种想法，即需要通过艺术形式来形成有意义的地方。此外，2013年10月在早稻田大学举行的研究研讨会上介绍并讨论了实地调查数据及其分类和解释的初步假设。

This research project investigates the roles of architecture and cultural tourism in the revitalisation of rural communities in Japan, focussing on the case studies of the Echigo-Tsumari Art Field in Niigata Prefecture, the Setouchi Triennale in Kagawa Prefecture, and the Kumamoto ArtPolis in Kumamoto Prefecture.After reviewing relevant literature, two fieldwork trips to the the Setouchi Triennale were conducted in July and October 2013, documenting sites, collecting information, and interviewing stakeholders at various levels – from directors and curators, to artists and architects, to volunteer participants. Some of this research was undertaken with international collaborating researchers Dr Ari Seligmann (Monash), who made fieldwork trips to Kumamoto ArtPolis; and Prof. Adrian Favell (Sciences-Po), who interviewed a number of participating artists.Two articles based on this fieldwork were published based in journals addressing scholarly audiences in architectural and art fields. These articles explored new ways of thinking about "place", using the concept of "floating constituencies" linking global and local communities around built sites; and the idea that "amalgams of fictions" mediated through artistic forms are required to form meaningful places. In addition, fieldwork data and initial hypotheses for its categorisation and interpretation were presented and discussed at a research workshop at Waseda University in October 2013.