第63回 WORKSHOP報告(7月13日) / 参加者89名
(1:Iさんによるカードゲームです。とてもわかりやすく丁寧に作っていただきました!)
(2:後半マテリアル作成者のYさんによるプレゼンです。難波エリアの再開発について、
データと映像を駆使された見事なプレゼンでした)
(3:今回も89名の方にお越しいただきました)
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《 今回のworkshop 》
○workshop参加人数:89名(うち新人の方:12名)
○【前半】:クイズ形式のカードゲーム
○【後半】:”How we revitalize Osaka?”というテーマでディスカッション
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<英語サークル E’s club 第63回workshopのご案内>
みなさまこんにちは、E’s club幹事のKです。第63回workshopの詳細をお送りいたします。
今回は前半のマテリアルをIさん、後半のマテリアルをYさんに作成していただきました。
前半はクイズ形式のカードゲームを行います。
後半は”How we revitalize Osaka?”というテーマでディスカッションを行ないます。
[今週のマテリアル]
<FIRST HALF>
みなさん、こんにちは。前半のマテリアルを担当させていただく、Iといいます。
今回、みなさんとゲームしたいと思い、カードゲームをマテリアルに選びました。カルタに似たクイズ形式のカードゲームです。楽しんでいただけるとうれしいです。
1) The group members place the “Name” cards (which have animal names written on them),
down in front of the group so that all of the names of the animals are visible to all of the players.
The “Animal” cards, which have an animal’s name and picture on it,
are placed into a pile with the pictures facing down, so that the players cannot see the pictures.
2) One person in the group becomes the “Animal” and the other people are the players.
(This can be decided using Rock, Paper, and Scissors.)
3) The “Animal” draws a card from the “Animal” pile and hides it from the other players.
4) The “Animal” gives 3 hints to the other players about the animal card that they have.
(The sound the animal makes, where it lives, the animal’s characteristics, its favorite food, etc.
e.g. “I live in ~”, “I like to eat ~”)
5) The players then try to find the “Name” card that the “Animal” is describing.
When they think they have the right card, they ask the “Animal”, “Are you a XXXX (Animal name)?
The “Animal” then answers “Yes” or “No”.
If the answer is “No”, then the player who asked the question is out until the next turn.
If the answer is “Yes” then the “Animal” gives the card to the player.
6) If the players cannot guess or do not know the animal, then the “Animal” says, “I am a XXXX”.
The players then try to be the first one to find the animal’s “Name” card.
The first player to get the correct card gets to keep it.
7) The person who was the “Animal” now becomes a player, and the next person in the group is the new “Animal”.
(e.g. If everyone is sitting in a circle, the person sitting on the left of the “Animal” becomes the new “Animal” for the next turn.)
8) The Player with the most cards is the winner!!!
How many cards can you find?
<LATTER HALF>
I’m Y working for electric manufacturer at Sakai city.
Pleased to have discussion with you.
Today’s topic sheds light on upcoming Namba revitalization plan
as part of Osaka revitalization plan. (recent example of which is “Grand Front Osaka”)
What can we do to make changes to Namba area to entice more visitors and How?
Hope this occasion encourages you to explore Osaka and giving thought to its future.
【Topic】
How we revitalize Osaka?
~Case Study of Namba Area ~
【Background】
Osaka city has been implementing “Osaka Revitalization Plan” for last few years
to entice visitors for both pleasure and business purpose.
One well-known example is recently opened Grand-Front in Central Osaka.
While Grand-Front opening grabbed so much attention to all,
there are lots more ongoing projects besides Grand Front.
【Questions】
Q1. Have you been to Grand Front Osaka yet?
If you have, please share your impression toward it.
If you haven’t, would you like to visit there for now?
Q2. Grand Front Osaka is a multi-purpose facility designed to
create new value from the fusion of human creativity and technology.
What do you think makes it distinctive from other commercial facility?
Q3. According to an article below, Dotonbori pool might be opened to revitalize Namba area.
Are you up for this idea or not?
Please share your idea with supporting reason.
Q4. If you were an organizer of Namba area, what kind of measure would you
take besides Dotonbori pool to revitalize area enticing visitors?
Q5. Osaka revitalization’s advantages are well spoken.
On the other hand, what is disadvantage?
Can we make solution toward disadvantage?
【Reference】
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Titled: Osaka takes plunge with canal pool
Source: May 22 2013, Japan Times News by Eric Jonston
OSAKA – If an Osaka company has its way, getting roaring drunk and jumping,
or falling, into Dotonbori Canal after either a Hanshin Tigers victory
or a wild night
out in neighboring Shinsaibashi will be less risky, healthwise, but it
will no longer be free.
That’s because plans are moving forward to build an 800-meter-long swimming
pool in the heart of the canal, the area that runs from underneath
Yotsubashisuji street
in the west to Sakaisuji street in the east. Scheduled to open in summer 2015,
the pool will be, its supporters claim, the world’s largest outdoor
swimming pool.
The canal sits in the middle of the Dotonbori district, an area known
for its nightlife.
Over the past decade, the waterway, famous as the preferred place for
Hanshin Tigers fans
(and statues of Kentucky Fried Chicken’s Colonel Sanders) to take a
dip on those rare
occasions they won championships, has undergone a renovation.
The banks of the canal, once as dark and dirty as some of the more
risque establishments in the area,
now have a boardwalk and are attempting to become more family-oriented.
Hawkers selling Osaka favorites like “takoyaki” (octopus balls) and
“okonomiyaki”
(Japanese-style pancakes), as well as quiet cafes and bars and the
odd souvenir shops have sprung up.
You won’t mistake it for the famed boardwalks of cities like Atlantic
City, New Jersey; Baltimore or San Antonio,
but it no longer looks like New York’s Times Square before Disney moved in.
The boardwalk area was the first step to revitalize the district, and
the Dotonbori pool is the second.
Although the idea had been kicking around the Osaka business community
for years, officially it is the brainchild
of former Economic Planning Agency head Taichi Sakaiya, dubbed by the
local media as the godfather of Osaka politics
and the man credited with bringing Osaka Mayor and Nippon Ishin no
Kai (Japan Restoration Party) head Toru Hashimoto to power.
Sakaiya formally suggested the idea last year, and, on April 1,
Dotonbori River Poolside Avenue,
a private firm headed by 14 local merchants, was formed to carry out
the project.
Yasuo Fukuda, a company spokesman, said there is no financial
involvement on the part of the city or prefecture,
and that construction costs are projected to run about \3 billion.
“The pool will only be 12 meters wide, but 800 meters long. The water
will not be canal water,
but purified city water that will be pumped into what is, essentially,
a giant tank,” Fukuda said.
The pool will be open between the end of June and the beginning of
September. There are plans for water shows
and other events. Initial plans called for pool admission to be \1,000
for the first hour and then \500 per hour after that,
but Fukuda said it will likely be higher.
The thought of a swimming pool in the heart of the Dotonbori Canal has
been greeted with laughter,
disbelief and hope. Sakaiya, who has pushed massive public and private
works projects in Osaka for years,
insists residents support the idea.
“We did a survey showing 71.4 percent of respondents wanted the pool.
Local residents have given it their overwhelming support,” Sakaiya
said last July.
But a more recent, ongoing survey that concludes at the end of this
year tells a different story.
The online poll is being conducted by the Namba Keizai Shimbun, which
covers the Dotonbori beat.
The newspaper’s results show that as of April 18, more than 58 percent
of the 730 respondents say
they will never get into the pool, and nearly 14 percent say they have
no desire to swim there.
About 16 percent said they’ll definitely take a dip, and another 12
percent said they might.
“The image of the Dotobori Canal as polluted is just too strong.
Lots of drunken customers pack the bars in the Dotonbori area and, in
the early morning hours,
hosts from area host clubs urinate in the canal. It will be very
difficult to keep clean,”
said some of the online comments on other blogs and websites about the project.
Other local residents and media question whether a pool that opens
during the rainy season
and operates for about two months is economically sustainable.
Given Sakaiya’s close connections with Hashimoto, there are fears that
if his pool idea turns
into a white elephant, the city would step in, forcing local taxpayers
to bail out the project.
“The project has just been announced, and people don’t have a lot of
information.
More details will be released this summer, so it’s not surprising that
there is opposition now,”
Fukuda said in response.
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【FYI】 Please enrich your view of Osaka Revitalization plan if time allows.
・Ongoing Urban Revitalization Plan in Osaka
http://www.investosaka.jp/en/development/kita.html
・Priority Urban Development Areas
http://www.kkr.mlit.go.jp/kensei/eng/index09.html
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