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PSO LEAGUE: 100 GOOD PRACTICES FOR COMMUNITY
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(Work winning 3rd prize in the 22nd Design Competition for Urban Activation)
"Do everything you can." It is a lesson of the lord who once ruled this area. We propose to create an organization, “PSO League,” which allows citizens to devote themselves everything to revitalize the city of Okazaki.
PSO is an abbreviation for Public Spaces for Okazaki. The PSO League is an organization consisting of teams that utilize low-use public spaces in the city. The idea of this league is to "create a cozy, fun, walkable, and beautiful town by having the team members themselves enjoy their activities."
Depending on the type of activity, the number of members, and the size of the activity area, the teams will belong to different divisions. PSO Guide evaluates the activities of the teams in multiple indicators and regularly publishes the results under the title Good Public Spaces for Okazaki.
PSO Guide introduces hot teams on its web site, offers guided tours to experience recommended teams’ activities, and hosts forums to promote interaction between teams.
We propose to set up the headquarter of the league inside the convention center under construction in the middle of the town initially. The activities of the teams will spread and the public spaces will become active with the headquarter as the core.
The followings are images of the public spaces activated by the teams.
TEAM: COFFEE FAMILY
People immigrated from overseas will set up a container in a vacant lot and will welcome people with genuine coffee and food. Through the exchange of several cultures related to beans, they will create a lively atmosphere.
TEAM: OKAZAKI GREENING COMMITTEE
Employees from several landscaping companies in the city provide technical assistance for soil preparation, cultivation, and harvesting in the greening activities of other teams.
TEAM: STREET GARDEN
In this district where there have been many flower pots on the streets, this team will make gardens on setback spaces, walls and roofs along the streets, and will organize tours of the gardens.
TEAM: NIGHT GUIDE
This team will create flows of people at night by producing devices that make night walk fun, such as glowing manhole, light flowing pavement, and lantern art.
TEAM: FLOATING TENT
This team develops its own floating bodies and operates them as sightseeing boats, cafes, restaurants, and event spaces to create new bustling places on the river.
TEAM: LONGEVITY BY MEDICINAL HERB
Hospitals, pharmacies, and pharmaceutical companies in this district will work together to convert vacant lots and flat parkings into medicinal gardens. They will operate them, and hold guided tours, harvesting events, herb seminars, and so on.
TEAM: STAYING IN THE RAIN
This team will set up containers in the open spaces, vacant lots and flat parkings in this district to create places to stay in case of rain. When the area is flooded, they become evacuation boats due to the floating structures.
TEAM: RENOVE
The carpenters will repair vacant houses at the requests of other teams. Floating structures will be installed into the renovated houses in the districts where serious inundation damage may occur. They will create scenery that anyone feels safe.
TEAM: HATCHO HOTEL
Hatcho miso, a traditional ingredient in this area. Barrels for fermenting grains to make hatcho miso will be reused for renovating vacant houses and diverted to the hotel bedrooms. It will be well-received, such as being healed by the scent of miso or feeling good on the skin.
TEAM: WATER JAZZ FEST
The boating team and the jazz festival team will work together to play jazz in the river. Spectators will enjoy from both sides of the river and from the bridges.
TEAM: RIDDLE SOLVING WALK
The team will set up container houses with quizzes about the history of Okazaki in various parts of the city so that people can enjoy walking while solving the riddles.
TEAM: COOKING CLASS MISO THE POINT
The team will hold a cooking class in a renovated house. They will create dishes using Hatcho miso and strive to spread miso with the help of the
manufacturer.
TEAM: PROJECTION MAPPING
The elevated railway obstructs the view of Okazaki castle from this district. This team will project videos on the subject of the castle every evening at 8pm on the screens stretched between the piers.
TEAM: EDIBLE STREET
This team will set up planting beds in the open spaces, vacant lots and flat parkings in this district to grow vegetables, fruits and herbs. People who pass by this district can eat everything they want.
TEAM: GUARDIAN OF FIREFLY
This team made up of those who loving living things will create a firefly habitat on the banks of the river that runs through the city centre. They invite experts of firefly to hold lectures and tours.
TEAM: TERRAIN-BASED HEALTHY LIFE
This team will enjoy walking and running, on the terrain elements such as terraced cliffs, dike slopes, sloping streets and riverways, where it takes load to move. Their activities will reduce the social costs of medical care.
TEAM: CHERRY NAKAOKAZAKI
Volunteers in this area will carefully protect and nurture the rows of cherry trees on the bank of the track. They will hold a cherry blossom viewing event during the blooming season. They will park automated stall vehicles on the road, provide food and drink services, and sell cherry-related products.
TEAM: CASTLE MOAT EXCAVATION
This team made up of history lovers will excavate and reclaim buried moats. The moats will revive as comfortable pocket parks, but they will also function as catchments of stormwater during heavy rain.
TEAM: BLOCK ROCK
The stone industry has been thriving because of the granite harvest in this region. Formed by the masonry union, this team will create cozy pocket parks and plazas out of stone in left over spaces and vacant lots along the streets.
TEAM: PSO LEAGUE HEADQUATER
The headquarter of PSO League will be set up inside the convention center under construction in the middle of the town. League events will be held here.
TEAM: OKAZAKI REKI-THEATER
This team of people studying the history of the city will set up a container in a vacant lot to perform videos and hold evening lectures. The container will become a space where visitors can get drunk with history.
TEAM: MO FOOD CART
People who run restaurants in front of the station will run the stalls of self-driving cars and provide food and drink services with the cooperation of MaaS operators.
TEAM: SETTING OUTSIDE
This team will set up their own containers, tables, chairs, flower pots, etc. to expand stores' contents outside.
more images coming soon
Team:
Yosuke Iguchi, Tomoka Terayama, Shigeki Nishimura, Wang Qi Wen, Tomo Iguchi, Hiroaki Tada, Mika Nakano, Miho Nishimura, Eri Hashime, Shuichi Murakami
