[U-14] Raising the profile and impact of community engagement in geoscience

[U14-05] Contribution by researchers and the regional community collaborating in the preservation activity for 'TAYA Cave'

★Invited Papers

*Yasuhiko TAMURA¹, Yuichi S. Hayakawa², Masashi MORITA³, Takuro Ogura⁴, Chiaki T. Oguchi⁵, Keishuke Ogata⁶ (1.The Executive Committee for the Preservation of TAYA CAVERN , 2.Faculty of Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido University, 3.Faculty of Urban Innovation, Division of Urban Innovation, Yokohama National University, 4.Graduate School of Education, Hyogo University of Teacher Education, 5.Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Saitama University, 6.Department of Cultural Property, School of Literature, Tsurumi University)

Keywords:Underground Built Heritage, Outreach, Collabolation with Elementary School and University, Inquiry Learning, Community welfare collaboration, Regional contribution of research studies

Underground Built Heritage is a man-made and artificial structure built across different continents and different cultures and peoples. Research and investigation into Underground Built Heritage covers many fields, including humanities disciplines such as history and archaeology, as well as natural science fields such as geology, landforms, topography, geography and environment, and civil and architectural engineering such as excavation technology and spatial designs. The process and results of this multidisciplinary research and study on Underground Built Heritage are an important regional resource that can contribute to the regional empowerment for small areas in our country, which is shifting towards a shrinking society. Underground Built Heritage is a man-made and artificial structure built across different continents and different cultures and peoples. Research and investigation into Underground Built Heritage covers many fields, including humanities disciplines such as history and archaeology, as well as natural science fields such as geology, landforms, topography, geography and environment, and civil and architectural engineering such as excavation technology and spatial designs. The process and results of this multidisciplinary research and study on Underground Built Heritage are an important regional resource that can contribute to the 'regional empowerment' for small areas in our country, which is shifting towards a shrinking society.
TAYA Cave, a local historic site in Sakae-ku, Yokohama, has a total length of 570 m, a three-storey structure and over 200 religious reliefs on the walls and ceilings in 11 large and small dome-shaped spaces, and is a registered Underground Heritage Site of Yokohama City. The authors established The Executive Committee for the Preservation of TAYA Cave in 2017 to carry out a basic researches for this Underground Built Heritage. These researches are varied and cover various fields, including geological weathering, 3D spatial information, geography and topography, cultural heritage, civil engineering and architecture, urban planning studies, and so on. From these multidisciplinary research activities, outcomes have been developed that enable consideration of the past, present and future of the surrounding environment and space of TAYA Caves. This presentation discusses the potential of research and survey activities to contribute to the regional community by presenting a case study of multi-layered community contribution activities involving the collaboration of various researchers and community people who participate in the preservation activities of the TAYA Cave, which is a local historic site in Sakae-ku, Yokohama.