EMANON is an alternative community place for young people, mainly high school students.

Using the space of a café, high school students and adults gather every Monday after school from 18:00 to 20:00 to start programming using p5.js together.

While both high school students and working adults have no coding experience, participants cooperate with each other and discuss the themes they want to express. What do you want to achieve using your skills? From the consultation, “I want to energize the shopping arcade! I want to brighten it up! The idea of projecting p5.js works on outdoor walls in the future was reflected in the production of the works. The students coded through a process of trial and error to express their feelings of “magic,” “emotion,” and “childlike spirit” in p5.js.

A place was created at a café in town where both high school students and working adults could engage in collaborative work, transcending age and affiliation, in the same position of being first-time learners. The discovery was that through the work, the participants became aware of the possibility of doing something like this, which motivated them to work on further projects such as 3D modeling and collaboration with community development.