마을 만들기는 주민이 자발적으로 문제를 해결해 나가는 과정을 통해, 공감대가 형성되어 나간다는 점에서 주민자치가 실현되는 공간이고 주민 공론의 장이자 생활의 질 개선과 공공성과 공동체의식의 회복과 확장을 위한 사회학적 상상력이 요구되는 공동체 사업이다. 한국사회는 급 발전 산업화와 새로운 자유주의 세계화에 따라 1인 가구 증가와 핵가족화, 공동주택의 거주와 잦은 이주에 따라 개인주의가 팽배해지고 개인의 관계도 소월해지고 그로 인해 마을주민들 간의 상호교류 및 소통이 끊어지고 차단된 고독한 시대를 살아가고 있으며, 모두의 관심사와 유대감을 상실하여 전통적 마을공동체가 붕괴하고 있다. 이러한 시대흐름 속에서 마을공동체 만들기에 대한 성찰적 활용이 다양한 시민단체와 광역 및 기초 자치단체에서 주민과 정부가 협력하여 마을공동체 만들기가 적극적으로 진행되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 마을공동체 만들기에 대한 관련 문헌을 분석하고 실제사례를 정리한 후 이에 따른 효과를 주민만족도와 시민의식을 선정하고 지속적 가능한 주민참여 마을 만들기에 대한 문제점과 개선방안을 모색하는 것이 본 연구의 주된 목적이다.

Community gardens provide the community with a green area for its residents to enjoy and socially interact with other gardeners. The expected benefits of participating in a community garden, aside from greater access to fresh produce, include increased mental health as well as improved general well-being stemming from increased exercise and socialization. The following is the research result conducted to provide a basic data for the construction of a community garden in a village. Once a community garden is put in place, the residents would intend to utilize it for their rest, stroll, exercise and appreciation. The number of respondents who would use a garden more than once a week turned out to be high, the reason behind which is construed as their willingness to utilize the garden as a place where they could relatively spend more leisure time later on given that the higher the respondents’ age became, the more often they would use the garden. Furthermore, as weekday afternoons’ or weekend afternoons’ participation has been high, it would be desirable if the garden revitalization or a community programs were conducted in line with this timeframe. The efficiency of the community garden would be enhanced when it is located within one kilometer where a person can walk in about 20 minutes. It is anticipated that once the community garden is built, it would be utilized as local residents’ hobby place and that it could serve as urban green space conducive to improving the landscape of a village, and overall, there are high expectations relating to this. As living infrastructure, the community garden can be utilized not just as a space for local residents’ leisure activities and rest areas but for their interactions. Thus, it is estimated that instead of applying a cookie-cutter garden design to all communities, a formulation of a garden needs to be made in a way that designs the space reflective of the characteristics of a community and that introduces needed facilities.

As rural development projects, mostly carried out in a top-down development method in the past came to take a bottom-up development method in earnest, entering the 2000s, resident participation became an essential element of a rural community design project, to the extent that it can influence the success or failure of a rural community design project. It is taken for granted that rural residents independently participate in community design projects, but as they are accustomed to various subsidy projects carried out by the government and become increasingly aging, it is not easy to induce their spontaneous participation in farming areas with such problems. Especially, to prevent the distrust between administrative agencies and residents from serving as an obstacle in the residents' spontaneous participation, it is necessary to construct horizontal governance among the village residents, administrative agencies and the group of experts supporting for the project. This study attempted to verify the mediating effect of governance in the relationship between resident participation and the performance of the rural community design project based on this problem recognition, and for this purpose, the results of a survey with residents in Utturu Village, Hangyeong-myeon, Jeju-si, which was completed by carrying out a comprehensive rural development project, the typical bottom-up community design project was used for an empirical analysis. The results of the study can provide implications for setting directions, establishing strategies and constructing governance of rural community design projects in the future, and especially, it can be said that this study has academic significance in that governance is recognized as an important variable related to the project performance.