個人と個人の対話を出発点に、遠くの誰かにまで想像や語りを広げる

me and youは、個人の対話を出発点に、遠くの誰かにまで想像や語りを広げていくための活動をおこなう拠点です。日々の心の動きや問いや違和感を肯定し、ちいさくても自分の温度や速度のまま語りはじめ、その声を聞きはじめてみる。それによって、ひとりひとりの異なる生き方や状況が確かに存在すること、わたしとあなたの意外なつながりと共通点、世界を構築している仕組みに気づき、思考し、行動する一歩につながるのではないかと思います。

10年前の自分の日記をめくってみたら、いまとは別人のような自分の忘れていた感情に出会うかもしれない。すこしそりが合わなくて困っているあの人は、じつは今朝まったく同じ材料をつかってスープをつくっていたかもしれない。海の向こうに暮らす見知らぬ人ーーわたしと同じようにシロツメクサを摘んだことのある未知のあなたは、無事に迎えられるかわからない不安な朝をひとりで待っているかもしれない。

人を容易くひとくくりにしてあり方を決めつけ、時に息苦しさをうむ既存の枠組みで判断する前に。わたしやあなた自身が持つ、曖昧で豊かな感情や言葉、あるいは迷いの過程を受け入れ、時間をかけて、丹念に向き合いたい。その人の背景と歴史やとりまく状況、人と人との関係を成り立たせている複数の事象に目を向けることで、見えてくるものがあると信じたい。世界の仕組みや構造の問題を学びながら、個人と社会の結びつきをひとつずつ安心できるかたちにときほぐし、そして結び直したいと考えています。

確かにここにいるわたしとあなた、遠くのわたしとあなた、それらのひとりひとりと手をとり合いながら共に。

our mission is to expand one's imagination and narrative to someone far away using dialogues between individuals as a starting point.

"me and you" is a place where we begin to expand one's imagination and narrative to someone far away using dialogues between individuals as a starting point. acknowledging emotional changes, questions we have on our minds, and the feeling that something is wrong in our everyday life. speaking out from how we feel and at our own pace even if it's trivial. trying to listen to our own voice. by doing so, we become aware of the fact that each of us lives in a different way and situation. we also become aware of the unexpected connections and similarities you and i have and the mechanisms that make up this world. we believe this all leads us to think and take that first step to action.

if you flip through your diary from ten years ago, you may encounter emotions you had forgotten as if they belonged to someone else. that person with whom you try but can't quite get along with could actually have made soup with the exact same ingredients as you did this morning. perhaps a stranger living on the other side of the ocean, a stranger who may have picked white clovers like i did, is anxiously waiting alone for the morning to come.

before judging people by simply putting them in groups or in existing structures that can be suffocating at times, we want to be open and accept abstract yet rich emotions, words, or doubts, and take the time to carefully face them. we believe there are things you can only see by looking at the background and the circumstances surrounding them as well as many events that make up their relationships. what we want is to unravel the ties between individuals and society one by one into a form that is safe and secure, and then reconnect them while learning about the issues of the systems and structures of this world.

you and i are really here and you and i are really there. we want to reach out, hold your hands and walk together.