from Jiro Kawakita's Theory of Democracy Genealogy of Citizen Participation in Public Architecture 10+1 website｜Genealogy of citizen participation in public architecture ─ Toward a pluralistic architecture｜Temple One website
In implementing citizen participation efforts, a common language was required for citizens, government officials, and experts to collaborate in planning. Citizen participation methods in Japan have developed uniquely by incorporating methods from the Western environmental design field, such as the RSVP cycle by Lawrence Halprin and Jim Burns,2 the design game by Henry Sanoff,3 and the pattern language by Christopher Alexander,4 among others. 4 by Christopher Alexander, and other Western environmental design methods. The "KJ method"*5 proposed by Jiro Kawakita became popular as a method for organizing and manifesting the consciousness of the many participants involved in architectural and urban planning in stages. The concept of "workshop," which originated in the field of theater, was redefined by Tamio Nakano in his "Workshop: A New Place for Learning and Creation "*6 and Isamu Kinoshita in his "Workshop: A Methodology for Resident-Oriented City Planning "*7 and is widely practiced as a method of citizen participation in city planning and public facility planning in Japan. It has been widely practiced as a method of citizen participation in city planning and public facility planning in Japan to this day.
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