For a month from June 15th to July 15th, crowdfunding is being carried out to renovate the basketball court in Yoyogi Park, the mecca of street basketball.
We will deliver a conversation between Mr. Akiba, who is also a project member and a producer of Future Design Shibuya Shibuya, and Mr. Osada, the executive director of Future Design Shibuya.
It was a dialogue that goes beyond the perspective of sports, such as the vision of creating advanced cases at Yoyogi Park and spreading role models from Shibuya to the whole country. —— [Digest]
Gather love for basketball courts and create autonomy ...
I want to spread it to the park basketball scene nationwide
Osada What I think is really good about this basketball court renovation project is that you often think that the local government will do all of that. However, by creating a place like this together, we will become more attached to each other, and we will continue to have a strong connection to support ourselves when something happens. Crowdfunding this time is very significant in the sense that it makes you goto yourself.
Akiba That's right. This coat is still said to be a sacred place for basketball, but I don't think it was made a sanctuary just because there was a coat. There is a community there, a sense of belonging is born, and it is necessary to talk about self-government of this place.
It's been 17 years ago, and I had Nike donate a basketball goal to the park for a project I worked on. But after a while, there was a goal board in a certain park, but the ring was removed. When I asked the park manager why, I was very grateful for the goal donation, but when young people gathered in the park, complaints came from the area due to garbage and noise problems, so I had to remove the ring. What?
So, if you just create a place and say "Yes, please", it may be Halloween in Shibuya, but it looks like <administrator> and <user>, or <region> and <visitor>. It may become Versus in some way. That's why the sense of belonging is important there. If it's a place that you love—for example, there's no one who throws away cigarette littering in front of the uncle who was indebted to me a long time ago. That's a story of conscience. Considering that conscience is a sense of belonging, if a sense of belonging is born, autonomy will be born, so I would like to increase the number of people who have a love for this basketball court. There is also one aspect of crowdfunding as a means of doing so.
After that, if you just talk about renovating the basketball court in Yoyogi Park, only the users here will be targeted, but this is the latest example of park basketball in Japan, and it will be a role model of park basketball nationwide. There is also the aspect that it is good. It includes a story that not only the users of Yoyogi Park but also various people can make themselves goto, such as the excitement of park basketball, equality, and the strengthening of Japanese basketball.
Osada But that is exactly what the mission of "Future Design Shibuya" should be. For any project, create a case in Shibuya and use it as a role model to spread to other areas. I think it is a typical example of what we are aiming for.
The future of Yoyogi Park basketball court
Osada If we try to foster a sense of belonging from crowdfunding, I think that the evolutionary form beyond that will approach the "DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organization)" that is now said in the context of the WEB3 era. That's right. Next to crowdfunding, I hope this project can go that far. Everyone will continue to support this, and while there is a part where everyone's opinions are reflected, we will increase the value together. How about that?
Akiba I think it's really good. It's like Shibuya.
Osada Yes. Everyone has the right to vote.
Akiba I want to do it. I think that the fact that such technologies come in properly and create role models is exactly the true value of FDS.
I would like to create an example from Shibuya and Yoyogi Park where the management side and the user side talk and liven up the community together, not the relationship between the <administrator> and the <user>. hey.
——Crowdfunding has already reached its initial target amount, but what is the biggest change in this court after it has been refurbished?
Please read the continuation >> in the column series "VOICE" of Future Design Shibuya.
