Ishinomaki2.0 Makigumi

ISHINOMAKI 2.0 was established in May, 2011, with the aim to renew Ishinomaki, one of the hardest hit city in the Great East Japan Earthquake, to become a new city, instead of rebuilding the city back to how it was before the quake. Our organization consists of members with diverse backgrounds such as local shop owners, NPO workers, architects from Tokyo, city planning researchers, creative producers, web directors and university students. We set to create new ways of communication by discovering the great assets the city of Ishiomaki innately owns with the new talents connected by Ishiomaki. ISHINOMAKI 2.0 is a very open organization. Our aim is to create a system where everyone becomes the hero of creating new Ishinomaki by involving talents from and outside of Ishiniomaki. We hope that Ishinomaki becomes the model of a "version up" city to create Japan in the next "version".