昨日は久しぶりの「住宅取材」で午前中いっぱい興味津々。すっかりあれこれのポイント満載でツッコミどころのあまりの多さに驚かされておりました。「作家と住空間」の取材も自分的には非常に刺激的なのですが、イマドキの住宅建築最前線事情もまた、いまの経済社会をすべて投影しているので分析しがいがある。
　で、帰ってきたら今度は電話連絡で東京の「中央省庁」とのやり取り。最近強く思っているのですが、政策についての申請〜やり取りが電子化してきてからどんどん「複雑化」してきていて、非常にナーバスな対応力を必要とされるようになってきた。むしろ書面と対面での作業の方がはるかに簡便なのではないかと思います。
　こういう困難はたぶん、電子化という情報交換手段の進化に対して人間社会の側の「常識化」がまだ追いついていないということのように思えます。官僚システム世界の言語感覚の厳密さををそのまま一般人に強制していると思える。それ自体は間違っているとは言えないのだけれど、一般社会常識では「え、そこまで厳密にやんなきゃいけないの？」という反応を持たざるを得ない。電子化によって官僚システムそのままが投影されてきていると思うのです。
　もう少し、行政の電子化も一般言語化される必要があると思うのですが、そういう進化プロセスというのは直接に政治判断の領域でもないので、選挙で止揚発展させていくものでもなさそう。できれば有識者による情報システム「民主化」というようなテーマで論議されて欲しいと思います。孫子の世代の日本のために。（おお！）
　・・・そんななか、夫婦での冬の散歩道探究の結果、さっぽろ琴似の空中回廊〜ビルとビルの連絡通路空間が２階のレベルで散歩歩数距離にして5000歩くらいになる通路散歩〜にたどりついています。北国の人間の知恵とも言える。で、そこにいくつかの「壁画」が展示されていて、毎日癒されております。
　どうも最近、こういう「やさしさ」にまったく参っておりまして（笑）、小さい子とか、各所で見かける動物たち、空を飛んでいる鳥たちなどに深く癒される。さっぽろの場合、多雪都市らしく地下歩行空間などたくさん人工通路があるので、こういった壁画という公共文化も大いに発展させて欲しい。いかがでしょうか？

English version

The mural on the aerial corridor in Sapporo Kotoni.
I’m getting melancholy about this kind of gentle expression (laughs). Artificial building corridor space is a new ‘public space’. It is a stage for a culture of gentleness. …

　Yesterday, after a long time, I spent the whole morning in a ‘housing interview’ and was very interested. I was surprised at how many points of interest there were. The coverage of ‘Writers and Living Space’ is very stimulating for me, but the situation at the forefront of current housing construction is also worth analysing, as it projects everything that is happening in today’s economy and society.
　And when I came back, this time I had a phone call with the ‘central ministries’ in Tokyo. Recently, I have strongly felt that the application and exchange of information on policies has become more and more ‘complicated’ since they have been computerised, requiring a very nervous response. Instead, it is much easier to work in writing and face-to-face.
　It seems to me that these difficulties probably mean that ‘common sense’ on the part of human society has not yet caught up with the evolution of the information exchange means of computerisation. It seems to me that the rigour of the language sense of the bureaucratic system world is being forced on the general public as it is. That in itself is not wrong, but the general public’s common sense is to respond, ‘Oh, do we have to be that strict?’ The electronic system has allowed the bureaucratic system to remain as it is. I think that the electronic system is projecting the bureaucratic system as it is.
　I think that the digitisation of public administration needs to be more generalised, but this kind of evolutionary process is not directly in the realm of political decision-making, so it is not something that can be stopped and developed through elections. If possible, I would like to see a discussion on such a theme as information system ‘democratisation’ by experts. For the sake of Japan’s grandchildren’s generation. (Oh!)
　In such a situation, as a result of the exploration of winter walking paths by a couple, we have arrived at the aerial corridor in Sapporo Kotoni – a corridor walk where the connecting passage space between buildings is at the level of the second floor and the walking distance is about 5000 steps. It can be said to be the wisdom of the people of the North. So, some ‘murals’ are exhibited there, and I am healed every day.
　I have recently been completely overwhelmed by this kind of ‘gentleness’ (laughs), and am deeply healed by small children, animals seen in various places, birds flying in the sky, etc. In the case of Sapporo, as a city with a lot of snow, there are many man-made pathways, such as underground walking spaces, so I would like to see the public culture of murals like this develop. What do you think?

Posted on 3月 22nd, 2025 by 三木 奎吾
Filed under: 日本社会・文化研究