Alternative systems ranging from self-organized skill sharing to alternative micro-economies have been critical channels of community engagement and bonding. Technology is increasingly playing a role in the way people connect to these services at the (hyper)local level. While there has been considerable research on designing technology to support conventional, established systems of community organization and governance; mobile and ubiquitous technologies offer strong potential for alternative systems to be established in the local level. Do It Yourself (DIY) and maker movements are enabling grassroots activist groups to develop their own technologies or to hack existing tools to support bottom-up systems of self-organization, democracy and commerce. Based on these trends and the recent worldwide economic, political and societal crisis, this workshop will bring together researchers, practitioners and activists to re-envision how HCI tools can support alternative systems of local civic engagement.

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The purpose of this paper is to look at the background of the introduction of cherry blossoms in Japanese colonial era and the purpose of the introduction of the Japanese Government-General of Korea from the perspective of colonial use to facilitate rule over Koreans. Through the analysis of primary historical sources such as the newspaper feed of the time and Lee Taejoon's novel, Planted A Flower Tree But, we first looked at how Japanese colonial era cherry blossoms were introduced and why they were introduced, and secondly, we looked at the representation of cherry trees in Lee Taejoon's novel. As a result of the study, cherry blossoms were introduced in Joseon in 1907 and spread through the process of acceptance and resistance. The colonial duality of cherry blossoms can be considered through the relationship between Japanese and wealthy Koreans who embraced cherry blossom viewing and the poor in Gyeongseong, which had no choice but to be alienated from such cherry blossom viewing in the novel.