Analysis on effects of facilitation on participants´ wording in participatory planning process

Management of planning process is necessary to adopt participants´ opinions to alternatives in participatory planning process in a community. In the management, reconstruction of the discussion is important for planners and participants to share their understanding and to make better alternatives. In this study, we evaluated the effects of reconstructing the discussion by focusing on the change of participants´ wordings during the discussion. This study proposed two types of methodologies: “Overlapping rate” and “Classification of noun words”. The former identified the characteristics of the participants. The latter showed the change of participants´ wordings after the reconstruction.