ギルド名鑑No.222 “優しいカオス”からコミュニティを育む千葉 祐太朗さん

できあがったものが、こたえでいい。
千葉 祐太朗さんの“優しいカオス”から育つコミュニティ

(The English version follows the Japanese text.)

港区を起点にいろんなところで働く・暮らす、楽しい時間を創りたい人たちによるコミュニティCreative Guild。このギルド名鑑ではそんなCreative Guildでつながったユニークな方々をご紹介しています。今回ご紹介するのは、大手企業でシステム開発に携わりながら、地元・富山で地域コミュニティづくりに取り組む千葉 祐太朗さん。立場や世代を超えて混ざり合う“優しいカオス”の中で、仲間の輪を広げながら、新しい可能性を探究し続けています。

千葉さんは、ITエンジニアとして長年、行政分野を中心としたシステム開発・運用に携わってきました。新型コロナウイルスを機にリモートワークが広がったことで、地元・富山を拠点に。現在は地域でのつながりを広げながら、社会人や大学生などが自分自身の在り方やキャリアを見つめ直せる、ゆるやかなコミュニティづくりに取り組んでいます。そうした経験も生かし、『自己超越型リーダーシップ』や『ヨハクさん、いる？』の制作にも共著者として参加しています。

そんな千葉さんの基本スタンスは、「固めすぎないこと」。正解を探しすぎず、一つの答えにも執着しない。その場で起きる自然な変化を受け入れながら、人や立場の境界線をほどき、優しく混ぜ合わせていく。少しカオスだけれど、だからこそ新しい可能性が生まれるワクワク感のある場をつくる。そして、そこでできあがったものを、その時の「こたえ」として受け取る。そんな自然体な在り方と、そのための余白を、千葉さんは大切にしています。

私たちはいつの間にか、「会社員ならこう」「地域ではこう」と、自分や周囲に対して無意識に決めつけてしまっていることがあります。一方で、働き方やキャリアの選択肢が広がり、AIによって仕事そのものの意味も揺れ動く今、その決めつけは、自分自身にも周囲にも、可能性を閉ざす原因になり得ます。未来への選択肢が変わり続けるなかで、いかに自らの囚われに気づき、手放していくか。そんなことが今、私たち一人ひとりに問われているのかもしれません。

千葉さんの取り組みは、誰かに正解を示すことではなく、人と人が自然に混ざり合うなかで、それぞれが自分自身の可能性を見つけ直せる場を育むことです。そこで生まれる小さな気づきや挑戦が、やがて会社や地域へと還元され、新しいつながりや選択肢を広げていく。そんな循環が富山に少しずつ根づけば、地域そのものの可能性もまた広がっていくはずです。Creative Guildでも、答えを急がず、余白と“優しいカオス”を楽しみながら、そこから生まれる新しい未来をみんなで育んでいきたいですね。

Let What Emerges Be the Answer
Yutaro Chiba and the Community Growing from “Gentle Chaos”

Creative Guild is a community of people who live and work across different places, with Minato City as a starting point, and who want to create more joyful moments in life. In this Guild Directory, we introduce unique individuals connected through Creative Guild. This time, we feature Yutaro Chiba, who works in systems development at a major company while also building community in his home region of Toyama. By creating what he calls “gentle chaos,” where people of different generations and backgrounds can mix naturally, he continues to explore new possibilities together with others.

Chiba has spent many years as an IT engineer, working mainly on the development and operation of systems in the public sector. As remote work expanded during the COVID-19 pandemic, he shifted his base back to Toyama. Today, while continuing his professional work, he is also expanding local connections and creating a loose, open community where working adults and university students can reflect on their own ways of living and their careers. Drawing on these experiences, he has also participated as a co-author in Creative Guild publishing projects including Self-Transcending Leadership and Yohaku-san, Iru? (“Is There Any Space Left?”).

At the heart of Chiba’s approach is a simple idea: don’t overdefine things. Rather than searching too hard for one correct answer or fixing the destination in advance, he values the changes that emerge naturally in the moment. He gently loosens boundaries between people and positions, allowing different perspectives to mix. The result may look a little chaotic, but it is precisely within that openness that unexpected possibilities can appear. For Chiba, what emerges through the process can itself become the answer for that moment.

Without noticing it, we often impose assumptions on ourselves and others: “This is what a company employee should be like,” or “This is how things are done in a local community.” Yet as ways of working and career options continue to diversify—and as AI changes the meaning of work itself—those assumptions can also close off possibilities. In a future where our choices keep changing, perhaps one of the most important things we can do is notice the constraints we have internalized and learn to let some of them go.

Chiba’s work is not about giving people the correct answer. It is about nurturing spaces where people can mix naturally, encounter different lives and perspectives, and rediscover their own possibilities. Small insights and experiments born in those spaces can eventually flow back into workplaces and local communities, creating new connections and new choices. If such a cycle gradually takes root in Toyama, the possibilities of the region itself may continue to expand. At Creative Guild, too, we hope to enjoy the space and the “gentle chaos,” without rushing toward answers, and grow the future that emerges from there together.