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Finally, as the fourth story, each participant reported how they would like to react
to the third story they discussed. Summarizing each participant’s report to develop
a concrete action plan is not the intention of this step. Instead, acknowledging others’ ideas for actual reactions to what they learn is the goal of this last step. Figure 5.8
summarizes the perspective participants gained through this workshop. This infinitysymbol- like shape perspective illustrates a retrospective view when envisioning the
future based on the present and the past. Instead of directly perceiving the present
from the past and anticipating the future from the present, workshop participants
took four stories as steps to deepen their understanding about the past, the present,
and a possible Gojome of the future. The fourth story they reported was the story of
oneself, which inquires what the participant would do as an individual member of
the local community at the present moment to actualize the discussed desirable
future through workshop.
5.4 Concluding Discussion
Reflecting on the previous sections, two major discussion points on framing involved
in rural sustainability in an aging and shrinking society arose. The first point is a
macro-scale framing in rural transition and how a rural region can be directed to a
sustainable development pathway. The multifunctionality framework described past
transition patterns of rural systems and provided three possible directions of system
transition pathways driven by various social changes. The past transitions were
largely caused by global market mechanisms and the increased awareness of environmental protection. The sustainable development notion is claimed as a recent
driver of rural system transition; however, its reflection of reality is often limited to
the policy level such as the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) scheme in Europe.
Past
Present
Future
Story of the past
Story of the present
Story of the future
Story of oneself
Fig. 5.8 Participants new perspective gained through Monogatari workshop
5 Framing in Placemaking When Envisioning a Sustainable Rural Community…
Finally, as the fourth story, each participant reported how they would like to react
to the third story they discussed. Summarizing each participant’s report to develop
a concrete action plan is not the intention of this step. Instead, acknowledging others’ ideas for actual reactions to what they learn is the goal of this last step. Figure 5.8
summarizes the perspective participants gained through this workshop. This infinitysymbol- like shape perspective illustrates a retrospective view when envisioning the
future based on the present and the past. Instead of directly perceiving the present
from the past and anticipating the future from the present, workshop participants
took four stories as steps to deepen their understanding about the past, the present,
and a possible Gojome of the future. The fourth story they reported was the story of
oneself, which inquires what the participant would do as an individual member of
the local community at the present moment to actualize the discussed desirable
future through workshop.
5.4 Concluding Discussion
Reflecting on the previous sections, two major discussion points on framing involved
in rural sustainability in an aging and shrinking society arose. The first point is a
macro-scale framing in rural transition and how a rural region can be directed to a
sustainable development pathway. The multifunctionality framework described past
transition patterns of rural systems and provided three possible directions of system
transition pathways driven by various social changes. The past transitions were
largely caused by global market mechanisms and the increased awareness of environmental protection. The sustainable development notion is claimed as a recent
driver of rural system transition; however, its reflection of reality is often limited to
the policy level such as the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) scheme in Europe.
Past
Present
Future
Story of the past
Story of the present
Story of the future
Story of oneself
Fig. 5.8 Participants new perspective gained through Monogatari workshop
5 Framing in Placemaking When Envisioning a Sustainable Rural Community…