Radique! (Radio Community Quest) is a ‘quest workshop’, where participants explore local towns with map and IC recorder in hand, recording their experiences, cutting and editing and finally sharing these local stories on community radio stations. Radique! workshops were held so far in local shopping districts of Kyoto and Kobe, joined by students from Yuko Tsuchiya lab at Hiroshima University of Economics and Akiko Ogawa lab at Aichi Shukutoku Univeristy.
On August 9th-10th, 2010, the first workshop took place around Sanjyo-dori in Chukyo-ku, Kyoto city, with around 30 students participating. Students were asked to interview local shop owners about their “life philosophies”. These recordings were later edited out of which 30 minute long programs were made and broadcast on Kyoto Sanjyo Radio Café.
The second workshop was held on August 11th-12th of 2011 with the cooperation of a community radio station FMYY, pulling a crowd of 27 students. The workshop’s theme was here “Memories of Disasters, Relay of Memories.” It was held at a shopping area, located in the Shinnagata south district of Kobe city, the site of the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake. Students asked members of the public what one needs to know about disaster prevention. From the recorded material, the students crafted a 30 minute radio program, entitled “Nagata’s messages from the heart – experiences of disaster and reconstruction.”
