An Exploration of Co-creation and Sharing Practices in Rural Areas
People born in the fifth, sixth and seventh years of the current generation (those born in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s) often, through absorbing information from the outside world and taking part in various activities, courses and learning experiences, begin to wonder: what could my hometown do? How can I do something for my hometown? Yet amid such enthusiasm, it is all too easy for that fire to be extinguished and all too easy to feel discouraged. Why? There are a thousand and one reasons, but what matters is how well you build up your own mental resilience and how you find the right approach and the right way to communicate, so that local friends and partners are willing to join in. Below are some related thoughts on community-driven efforts and observations of what has been done:
After all the work is done, the government cannot help but want all kinds of KPI values, and we cannot help but ask: where is the effectiveness of these processes? In fact, it has already been blended into our lives, visibly and invisibly, because the heart and the smiles poured into the process, the dedication to this environment, and the care of subsequent users in maintaining it have all, through the collaborative process, internalised the feelings between us and brought so much to our lives, for example:
- Participants may grow in number (but they may also dwindle, depending entirely on how the process is run)
- The balancing of boundaries among initiators, collaborators and participants.
- Shared glory and sharing for the place.
- Together, continually seeking more suitable opportunities for life.
- Failure is also a precious kind of value.
- Together, continually accumulating and building up local stories and history.
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