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Collective creativity emerges when people interact with externalized representations and with others. This chapter shows how ostensibly dry local historical statistical tables, when framed as prompts for engagement, become a participatory cultural resource for thinking through shared representations. Building on museum studies of inspirational environments and design principles that emphasize experiential interaction, peer influence, and cumulative expression, our Stats.Hakodate project reframes 1,260 pages of Hakodate City History: Statistical Archives (1860s–1970s) as a medium for citizen-driven inquiry and participatory knowledge creation. We introduce SLAPUP workshops, where citizens explore tables, pose questions and hypotheses, and externalize insights as annotations, and Stats.Hakodate Browser, which accumulates and replays these traces for asynchronous engagement. Analyzing over 200 annotations shows how participants co-construct personally meaningful interpretations, exhibiting mini-c creativity and progressive archive enrichment.

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Using a Large Volume of Local Historical Statistical Tables as a Source of Mutual Inspiration and Collective Creativity

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    2026年

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  • Kumiyo Nakakoji,
  • Yasuhiro Yamamoto,
  • Hibiki Sasaki

摘要

Collective creativity emerges when people interact with externalized representations and with others. This chapter shows how ostensibly dry local historical statistical tables, when framed as prompts for engagement, become a participatory cultural resource for thinking through shared representations. Building on museum studies of inspirational environments and design principles that emphasize experiential interaction, peer influence, and cumulative expression, our Stats.Hakodate project reframes 1,260 pages of Hakodate City History: Statistical Archives (1860s–1970s) as a medium for citizen-driven inquiry and participatory knowledge creation. We introduce SLAPUP workshops, where citizens explore tables, pose questions and hypotheses, and externalize insights as annotations, and Stats.Hakodate Browser, which accumulates and replays these traces for asynchronous engagement. Analyzing over 200 annotations shows how participants co-construct personally meaningful interpretations, exhibiting mini-c creativity and progressive archive enrichment.