Nature & Culture Portal - Understanding Environment through Culture

I’ve been thinking about my living in 2030. How do I actually live with nature? In the lecture, there are a lot of presentation about the connection. Connection between urban and rural area, old and new houses, nature and tradition……

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Recently I've been listening to a song by Sheena Ringo, ありあまる富, singing how "we are already rich with the 'invisible wealth'". Over the semester, we have had the opportunities to touch the invisible, but rich pearls of wisdom and…

Generally speaking, my main point about the relationship with nature is that human and nature together form an organic whole. In this organism, the existence of this two complement each other. Nature has given mankind a living environment…

Various people work towards taking care of nature in multifaceted ways and areas in society. We had some priceless opportunities throughout this semester to hear from several guest lecturers who work in the frontline across Japan and…

Hello to dear future me. I am curious about how is the global environment going in 2030. Before I taking the course of Nature and Culture, I am just a person who is not interested in any environmental issues. However, by playing some…

In the SWOT analysis, our "Forest Life" team talked about "The village of the doll", where many mannequins were left around a village in Japan, due to the local population dwindles. We discussed that although depopulation is a serious…

Today, our group discussed branding for a village in the mountains based on our group theme "forest life." And we came up with the idea of "second house." What we mean by that is customers pay some money and stay at any houses which are…

Our group focused on branding to come up with a plan for a village in the mountains. We recognized that due to the Corona Virus, more people have a desire to work remotely from rural areas. As a result, de-urbanization is…

We chose “Spirit” as a key word, since tradition is basically a custom/value/beliefs being passed on from generation to generation. Society changes and a “tradition” might not be exactly the same as it was back then. So the most…