Conversion of Negative Resource: Bricolage Process within the Urban Regeneration of Setouchi\'s Islands

• Main Authors: Chen, Huan-Hung, 陳煥宏
• Other Authors: Hsiao, Ruey-Lin
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2019
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/2h8jhr

博士 === 國立政治大學 === 科技管理與智慧財產研究所 === 107 === The rise and fall of organization always follow a circle of life. This journey also reflects the development of cities. When cities are decaying, they affect the life of citizens and expediting cities’ deterioration. The suburban cities are even more vulnerable; its regeneration will face stuborn resistance, shortage of resources and bounded by constraints. This research explores how suburban cities confront these constraints and overcome resource limitation while developing solutions to urban regeneration. This thesis employs the lens of bricolage and focuses on resource conversion in order to analyze suburban cities breakthrough resource scarcity and identify opportunities for urban reborn. This research aims to expand bricolage theory through three approaches to ‘conversion’: recognizing opportunity while making use of resource at hand; cognition shift while making-do with limited resources; converting the value of resources while recombingin them. This case study traces Setouchi Art Festival in Japan so as to analyze opportunity recognition, cognitive shift and resource conversion. This research describes not merely regeneration process but also analyzes bricolage through opportunity, cognition and resource. It indicates that urban regeneration should not be equated with marketing events packaged with art festivals, it is more important to appreciate bricolage practice in order to seize window of opportunity, reshape persistent mindset and convert the quality of resource within constraints. In so doing, urgan regeneration will not avoid replicating the ‘best practices’ and may exercise bricolage by adapting to local conditions. As such, cities may turnaround elegantly and illustrate its colorful personality.