Manazuru inspection trip by Audrey Tang. I participated at the invitation of halsk.
Manazuru is a town where “Beauty Ordinance” was created 30 years ago, based on Alexander’s pattern language. Manazuru Town - Wikipedia
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The “Manazuru Town Development Ordinance” was enacted by the national government in 1993 and came into effect the following year. Article 10 of the ordinance, “Principles of Beauty (8 principles)” and “Standards of Beauty,” as well as rules for development and construction, the role of the council, and the participation of residents are stipulated as part of the town development plan. This was a pioneering example of a national ordinance regulating urban development, and it was also an unprecedented case in which “beauty” was stipulated in a statute. The design guidelines (design code) of the “Principles of Beauty” refer to the ideas in “A Vision of Britain’s Future: Reflections on Architecture” by Charles III, then Crown Prince of Wales, who was concerned that the once beautiful historical buildings of England were being demolished one after another. The “Ten Principles of Architecture” referred to in this book are considered as a hint for thinking, because they have a common universality for people living in cities, transcending country and time.
- Manazuru is 7km2
- Formed by volcanoes, the terrain is rich in variations
- Stone is an industry.
- Advantage of proximity to quarry and port
- The old town is a narrow street, so building codes don’t allow new construction.
- New construction zone on the other side of the tracks.
- (beautiful) forest
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In 1661, the Odawara clan planted 150,000 pine seedlings over a period of three years, and since then, in 1905, the forest was recognized as a forest that protects and nurtures fish and designated as a fish-guarding forest. The site had long been managed by the national government from the Goryozan (forest under the control of the feudal lord of the shogunate) to Goryozan (forest owned by the imperial family) until it was transferred to the town of Manazuru in 1952.
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The Manazuru Peninsula Nature Park was designated in 1954. Today, in order to preserve the forest in its present state for future generations, the following rules have been established: “Do not pick,” “Do not burn,” “Do not throw away,” and “Do not step into the forest.
- https://colocal.jp/topics/art-design-architecture/manazuru/20161019_83155.html
- The Meiji Jingu Shrine 250 years later, he said.
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Beauty Ordinance
- pattern language
- Collect 69 good points.
- It took two years to build.
- 1/3 derived from citizens, 1/3 from experts, and 1/3 from Alexander.
- Sandwiched between Atami City and Odawara City
- [Resisting the Wave of Tourism
- The small size made it easy to share opinions.
Manazuru is short of water
- Self-supplied water sources are insufficient.
- They bought water from Yugawara.
- This is one of the concerns about turning the area into a tourist destination.
- Fear of water cutoff, etc.
- Local fishermen opposed the forces that wanted to build a hotel and turn the area into a tourist attraction because they were concerned about the pollution of the sea.
- So the cleanliness of the water or the sea was a public good (i.e. goods or services such as parks or highways).
- Tried to prevent Tragedy of Common Land from being caused by tourist hotels
Q: Have there been any upgrades over the past 30 years?
- It was initially designed to be updated.
- However, “it was too well made and there was a reluctance to modify it.
- It was taken as a kind of bible or constitution.
- The key question is, “How do we update it?”
Manazuru’s population is declining. Will this be a problem for the aging population, with its many steep hills, etc.?
- Manazuru has a high aging rate but a low nursing care required rate.
- Related: Wako Model.
- Is it good to be able to train your legs and feet on a daily basis?
70% of the population works outside of Manazuru.
- It doesn’t take much time to get to Shinagawa.
Use komatsu stones, plant fruiting trees
- Cessions occur during the fruitful season. - gift economy ！
- Komatsuishi car stop
The case that somehow we ended up singing a Taiwanese song in chorus: watchful spring wind.
@hal_sk: We sang 望春風 in a beautiful house in Manzuru with @audreyt . Precious moment🎶. (movie)
@nishio_en: Thanks to @hal_sk , I had the opportunity to talk with @audreyt yesterday. I was happy to express that ‘broad listening’ is an augmentation of human ability, and it plays an important role for encouraging Plurality in Japan, whose culture values consensus.
@nishio_en: I got a new insight from her when I asked about the legitimacy. The insight that the switching cost decreases when social systems are built on the Ethereum platform was an eye-opener for me. I plan to write about this later on my Scrapbox.
- I asked about social inovation legitimates governance
- He’s wearing a Nishikigoi NFT T-shirt!
@nishio_en: I regret that due to my lack of English skills, I failed to explain about amazake, and I wasn’t able to prevent her from mixing it with green tea. I tried it myself and found that was not tasty at all. I wanted to convey that it’s sweet non-alcoholic drink rich in amino acids,… Japanese Explanation
- I had the opportunity to speak with Audrey Tan, Minister of Digital Affairs of Taiwan, and was able to convey my interest in broad listening as it can be interpreted as human enhancement, and my belief that it will play an important role, especially in Japan, where consensus is important. I was able to convey the idea that broad listening could be interpreted as human enhancement and that it could play an important role especially in Japan where consensus is important.
- (Added) I wrote more about it here: Broad Listening is Important in Japan, Where Air Rules.
- I also asked her to elaborate on her statement about the legitimacy of governance, “Social innovation legitimizes governance,” and she pointed out that if multiple social systems are built on the Ethereum infrastructure, switching costs will go down and people can choose “which social system they want to choose”. I felt the scales fall from my eyes when he pointed out that if multiple social systems are built on the Ethereum platform, switching costs will decrease and people will be able to choose “which social system to choose” according to their will.
- (Added) A little more detail below.
- Tip: “Broad listening” as written here is a general term for technology that helps humans understand the feelings of hundreds of other humans.
- Security and Civic Tech.
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He highlighted Taiwan’s success in digitizing its education system as a potential area of support for Ukraine.
Politics and Tech collaboration. - Not [zero-sum game
Interested in Anthropic.
- Longer context length is attractive
Iceland is working hard on Post Learning, because their language is a minority.
Social innovation legitimizes governance.
- What does this mean?
- Systems built on top of the Ethereum foundation have lower switching costs due to common infrastructure
- Also, since it is implemented in code and open source, it is easy to fork and create new ones.
- The fact that social systems are described by code rather than by natural language makes it easier to make many choices.
- Which of the multiple choices made by forking
- Use what people think is good after what works.
- The way people choose their social system legitimizes the method of governance ex post facto.
- DApps as a migration destination for slow systems
education system
- Education Provider
- If the entity providing digital education keeps learning history and other information confidential, it will be difficult for learners to migrate to other educational systems. - lock-in
- Must be portable, [interoperable
- Proposal for community to self host
- EU
- Legislation that requires data to be exported when requested by the user.
- Khanmigo Education AI Guide | Khan Academy
- socratic
- AI Learning Partners
How to create the belief that there is happiness beyond plurality
Difference between Decidim and [Polis
- Decidem is more of an all-inclusive citizen participation platform.
- I can make sure that personal identification is secure.
- It’s not a “choose one or the other” kind of thing, since Polis can be embedded as a plugin.
How can we solve the problem of designers creating something with the expectation that it will be updated, but leaving it unupdated by later people? - Nakagin Capsule Tower Building
- Decide in advance to update regularly.
- Eliminate the cost of saying, “Let’s change.”
To change or not to change?
- Changing the Combination of Unchanged Contracts
Web3 and Human Coordination
- town planning
- Contributions and commitments
- Creating incentives through non-monetary means
- What is “voluntary”?
Local nations are governed by historical circumstances.
- Anarchy in the international community because there is no governing body that oversees the whole
- Some sort of coordination mechanism is needed.
- public goods (i.e. goods or services such as parks or highways)
- Roads, etc. were tightly coupled with local land.
- The era of “digital public goods” that are not tied to the land
- global
- It’s too much of a burden for the local government to handle all the responses.
- ecosystem
- smart contract
- DAO
- Collective Action
automobile
- Physical car is private property
- Traffic congestion is a public good
- More convenient to be close to the center of the city
- That’s why it’s crowded.
- Changing Incentive Design drives [Nash equilibrium
- Tax what is popular and invest in public goods.
- Aligning the interests of the individual with the interests of the whole
- More convenient to be close to the center of the city
- There’s the “one man’s best effort problem.”
- Need technology to facilitate resolution of this
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Patagonia 2019 Agriculture that generates solar power while farming, solar sharing.
Relationship between early adopters and those who have a “problem to solve”. - A “sense of task” is not the same as a “solvable task.
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@shunkawaguchi: It’s been almost 8 years since I started Manazuru Publishing. With “small” as the key word, I was just delivering publications to a specific few and accepting them at the inn, and then Audrey Tan came to Manazuru.
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@shunkawaguchi: Here is an introduction from Mr. Ota of Code for Japan, who lives in Manazuru.
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And then I traced it further back to a FB post I made five years ago when Mr. Yamada from Kobe came to stay with us, and I realized that you never know what life will lead you to.
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