Entering into Community and Practicing Cultural Harmony
There is a group of teachers and students in Xinzhuang, Taishan, Wugu, and Linkou Districts. With their care for the local development, they combined the strength of schools, communities, and public departments from all levels. Under the concept of entering the culture academy era of ‘First North Taiwan School’ college, they organized a series of activities at ‘Xintai Five Forests’ which ended with fruitful results.
This group of people is formed of teachers and students from the ‘First North Taiwan Learning Museum Practical Project’, the cross-faculty, and local communities. Ming Chi University of Technology has long cared for the community field. With a solid field survey foundation, the project team combines the resources from the school, the neighborhood schools, associations, and government agencies at all levels. this year, it will launch a series of activities for the migrant workers, new residents and their children, colleges and communities, environmental monitoring and education, and other related issues to build a ‘Xintai Five Forests Local Knowledge Platform’. These plans will allow local issues to receive more attention and assistance. The project details are described as follow:
The Tri-part Trips of Green and Silver
The present Taishan District is lined with tall buildings, Ming-Chi Road runs through the downtown area of Taishan, and the modern streetscape with busy traffic makes it hard to imagine that it was a village at the foot of a mountain by the lake in the past. There used to be countless ponds and paddy fields which hid numerous cultural landscapes such as two Taishan Rock, Ming Chi Academy, and other rich cultural landscapes.
However, the cultural and historical relics of the past, or the former site of the water canal representing the pioneering history of ancestors are now hidden in the urban concrete jungle. The beauty of history is obscured by a curtain called modernization.
Therefore, in this year, Ming Chi University of Technology, together with the Taishan Culture and History Association and other local organizations, organized a small day trip called the "The Trilogy Journey of Green and Silver", bringing the people and children closer to the familiar community and discover the different stories and beauty in the community.
During one of the small day trips, we came to the Maple Tree Hall in Taishan. In coincidence, we met a grandma who lived nearby. After learning that we were looking into the history of the temple and water canal, she leisurely mentioned about the past scenery in her childhood, where goods sailed into this big water canal. However, this abundant source of water has now dried up.
As soon as the story was finished, everyone participating in the event was amazed at every sight and thing they saw currently, which was so different from the past. It not only deepened the impression of the day trip, but also highlighted the result of Ming Chi University of Technology’s deep cultivation of local culture and history.
Courses Promoting Multiculture
Ming Chi University of Technology also cares about international migrant workers from all over the world. How to enable new residents to better integrate into the local area, as well as how to enable local residents to better understand foreign cultures, are both the key goals of current year planning.
For this reason, we are committed to organize a series of multicultural workshops this year, inviting new residents’ mothers to teach handicrafts such as traditional batik and Southeast Asian cuisine. We expected through the workshop’s interaction method, we can enable the new resident and community know each other better by teaching and learning.
The Southeast Asian Gourmet Map
According to statistics from the Immigration Agency, there are currently about 170,000 migrant workers from Southeast Asia in Taiwan. The migration of a large number of people also brings in the foreign cultures. The "Xintai Five Forests" area with a nest of labor-intensive industries has naturally increased the number of international migrant workers. Furthermore, it also introduced the rich Southeast Asian culture into the area. Through a glimpse on the neighborhood street, we can find that there are increasing number of Southeast Asian shops and gourmets.
In order to promote cultural exchanges, the project team led a number of students to form a "Ming Chi Food Expedition Team" to explore Southeast Asian cuisines in the "Xintai Five Forests" area and create a local "gourmet map". Through interviews and video recording, it is expected that the community will be more concerned about the foreign cultures around their lives and achieve the purpose of promoting cultural integration.
In the video introducing the Indonesian restaurant "Caiqiu Xiaoguan", we invited an Indonesian Student, Bayu, to serve as the host. Through the scene of foreign students tasting the traditional cuisines from their hometown in Taiwan and the conversation with the shop owner (Indah), it has presented the care of Ming Chi University of Technology towards the migrant workers and new residents, which has created a new image of New Taipei City as a multicultural city.
A Deep Cultivation of Community to Create Cultural Harmony
This year, Ming Chi University of Technology has developed various projects with the core concept of "Xintai Five Forest Museum". During the implementation of these projects, we can discover that the project team has expanded the local cultural and environmental issues to the cross-cultural issues such as the living issues encountered by the migrant workers, how the people with different culture interact and support each other; which are considerably realizable. (As for the annual seasonal cultural activities of Taishan and Wugu, they have been scheduled to be organized under the cooperation with the municipal government from October). This has showed the enthusiasm and sturdiness of the project team. We look forward to linking local resources to form a "Xintai Five Forests Local Knowledge Platform" and nurturing more students and residents with social awareness and cross-domain thinking.
This group of people is formed of teachers and students from the ‘First North Taiwan Learning Museum Practical Project’, the cross-faculty, and local communities. Ming Chi University of Technology has long cared for the community field. With a solid field survey foundation, the project team combines the resources from the school, the neighborhood schools, associations, and government agencies at all levels. this year, it will launch a series of activities for the migrant workers, new residents and their children, colleges and communities, environmental monitoring and education, and other related issues to build a ‘Xintai Five Forests Local Knowledge Platform’. These plans will allow local issues to receive more attention and assistance. The project details are described as follow:
The Tri-part Trips of Green and Silver
The present Taishan District is lined with tall buildings, Ming-Chi Road runs through the downtown area of Taishan, and the modern streetscape with busy traffic makes it hard to imagine that it was a village at the foot of a mountain by the lake in the past. There used to be countless ponds and paddy fields which hid numerous cultural landscapes such as two Taishan Rock, Ming Chi Academy, and other rich cultural landscapes.
However, the cultural and historical relics of the past, or the former site of the water canal representing the pioneering history of ancestors are now hidden in the urban concrete jungle. The beauty of history is obscured by a curtain called modernization.
Therefore, in this year, Ming Chi University of Technology, together with the Taishan Culture and History Association and other local organizations, organized a small day trip called the "The Trilogy Journey of Green and Silver", bringing the people and children closer to the familiar community and discover the different stories and beauty in the community.
During one of the small day trips, we came to the Maple Tree Hall in Taishan. In coincidence, we met a grandma who lived nearby. After learning that we were looking into the history of the temple and water canal, she leisurely mentioned about the past scenery in her childhood, where goods sailed into this big water canal. However, this abundant source of water has now dried up.
As soon as the story was finished, everyone participating in the event was amazed at every sight and thing they saw currently, which was so different from the past. It not only deepened the impression of the day trip, but also highlighted the result of Ming Chi University of Technology’s deep cultivation of local culture and history.
Courses Promoting Multiculture
Ming Chi University of Technology also cares about international migrant workers from all over the world. How to enable new residents to better integrate into the local area, as well as how to enable local residents to better understand foreign cultures, are both the key goals of current year planning.
For this reason, we are committed to organize a series of multicultural workshops this year, inviting new residents’ mothers to teach handicrafts such as traditional batik and Southeast Asian cuisine. We expected through the workshop’s interaction method, we can enable the new resident and community know each other better by teaching and learning.
The Southeast Asian Gourmet Map
According to statistics from the Immigration Agency, there are currently about 170,000 migrant workers from Southeast Asia in Taiwan. The migration of a large number of people also brings in the foreign cultures. The "Xintai Five Forests" area with a nest of labor-intensive industries has naturally increased the number of international migrant workers. Furthermore, it also introduced the rich Southeast Asian culture into the area. Through a glimpse on the neighborhood street, we can find that there are increasing number of Southeast Asian shops and gourmets.
In order to promote cultural exchanges, the project team led a number of students to form a "Ming Chi Food Expedition Team" to explore Southeast Asian cuisines in the "Xintai Five Forests" area and create a local "gourmet map". Through interviews and video recording, it is expected that the community will be more concerned about the foreign cultures around their lives and achieve the purpose of promoting cultural integration.
In the video introducing the Indonesian restaurant "Caiqiu Xiaoguan", we invited an Indonesian Student, Bayu, to serve as the host. Through the scene of foreign students tasting the traditional cuisines from their hometown in Taiwan and the conversation with the shop owner (Indah), it has presented the care of Ming Chi University of Technology towards the migrant workers and new residents, which has created a new image of New Taipei City as a multicultural city.
A Deep Cultivation of Community to Create Cultural Harmony
This year, Ming Chi University of Technology has developed various projects with the core concept of "Xintai Five Forest Museum". During the implementation of these projects, we can discover that the project team has expanded the local cultural and environmental issues to the cross-cultural issues such as the living issues encountered by the migrant workers, how the people with different culture interact and support each other; which are considerably realizable. (As for the annual seasonal cultural activities of Taishan and Wugu, they have been scheduled to be organized under the cooperation with the municipal government from October). This has showed the enthusiasm and sturdiness of the project team. We look forward to linking local resources to form a "Xintai Five Forests Local Knowledge Platform" and nurturing more students and residents with social awareness and cross-domain thinking.
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