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Taipei National University of the Arts

Higher Education Sprout Project

2021 Achievement Highlights

With "Teaching Innovation Integrating Arts and Sciences" and "Performance-Driven Social Practice" as the driving strategies, the results of Higher Education Sprout Project of TNUA "Change, Me and Us" education improvement plan should meet the Ministry of Education's four goals—to enhance teaching innovation and quality, develop school characteristics, make higher education more accessible, and fulfill social responsibilities—and also contribute to improving the seven colleges' curriculum quality and intercollegiate cooperative learning, as well as the school's support mechanisms and systems. With general and professional courses as the foundation, the school will innovate intercollegiate cooperative teaching programs based on interdisciplinary learning, social trends, and industry needs.

Internally, the school will apply forward-thinking teaching innovation models to cultivate students' basic skills, employability, interdisciplinary knowledge, and international mobility, with the goal of enhancing educational diversity, teaching quality, and student autonomy through innovation. Externally, the school will focus on empowering teachers and students to take the curriculum and learning results beyond the campus to real-life social practice in different regions, ethnic communities, and events. This public display of knowledge production transforms individual work into collective energy, enabling students to perceive the relationships among art, the self, and others, achieving the ultimate goal of changing "Me" (teachers and students) and "Us" (impacting local communities, Taiwan, and the world).

l.Implementing Teaching Innovation and Improving Teaching Quality

1. Developing Innovative Teaching Models to Improve Pedagogical Research and Education Quality

The school has achieved remarkable results over the years by introducing top domestic and international teachers and training systems, promoting "cross-cultural" and "two-way" global-standard cooperation courses, enhancing capabilities in professional innovation and interdisciplinary and international cooperation, encouraging teachers to engage the community and helping them develop diversified curriculum materials and teaching methods.

In recent years, many teachers have developed innovative teaching models through the implementation of the Ministry of Education's education practice plan. For example, Director Andy Yu of the Graduate Institute of Arts Administration presided over "The name of Luzhunan: From Depression to Blessing", which received the 2021 subsidy from the Ministry of Education’s Teaching Practice Research Program. Co-teaching with Professor Liu Huei-Ling, Director Yu arranged for students to actually visit the community, study local culture, review interview records, and assist the community in preserving cultural and historical materials. Director Yu also trained students to use artistic media (documentary) as an interdisciplinary tool to raise public awareness about the Luzhunan Community (Fig. 1). Department of Dance lecturer Lin I-Fen's " Advanced Contemporary Dance" was awarded "2021 Outstanding Plan" by the Ministry of Education. The content of the course focuses on guiding students to construct clearer body awareness through the application of empirical anatomy, use the first person perspective to explore the body's communication in depth, and help dancers reflect on their dancing experience and writing ability (Fig. 2).

Fig. 1 The Luzhunan community organized a film festival for students and participated in the event with residents. Fig. 2 Contemporary dance class.

To raise teachers' willingness to invest in curriculum development and practical innovative teaching methods, the school promoted the innovative curriculum mechanism through school-level integration in 2019, and formally implemented the centralized experimental curriculum trial method in 2020 by subsidizing seven courses with a total of 199 students. In 2021, 10 courses were subsidized, with a total of 291 students. Centralized experimental courses encourage departments to implement flexible and diversified starting times, break out of old curriculum frameworks to open up new possibilities of diversified interdisciplinary teaching, and partially subsidize guest lectures by domestic and international experts and scholars, reducing workload for the school's full-time teachers while enhancing educational outcomes.

Among them, the Music College officially invited Lu Shao-Chia, artistic consultant and conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra, to serve as a distinguished lecturer. He cooperated with masters and bachelors programs in the TNUA Department of Music to teach a series of courses, including "Orchestra" and "Conducting Masterclass", ushering in a new era for on-campus courses in Taiwan. This was a major event in Taiwan's academic and music industries. The school's professional courses, carefully selected conductors, rehearsals and performances, teaching, and stage performances combine to offer more sophisticated and solid learning. Many students said being directed by Mr. Lu Shao-Chia was "the best thing that happened to them" since entering TNUA. The centralized experimental course promotes dialogue and interaction between instructors and students, an unforgettable learning experience (Fig. 3).

Fig. 3 Rehearsals and performances during the TNUA Music College's "Music lecture - Master Lu Shao-Chia special topic" course (Feb 2020, Jan 2021).

2. Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education Course Opens New Horizons for Students' Artistic Careers

From 2017 to 2021, innovation and entrepreneurship courses were mainly offered by the Center for General Education, the Graduate Institute of Art Administration and Management, and the Arts Entrepreneurship Micro-Program. Diversified learning opportunities stimulate students' innovative and entrepreneurial mindset and abilities. In order to understand the whole school curriculum, we conducted an audit of the whole school curriculum, held project meetings, and examined more courses that help students directly integrate with industrial innovation after graduation, such as The Department of Fine Arts' "Exhibition and Curating", The Department of Music's "Orchestra Management", the Department of Dance Focus Dance Company's "Dance Production Practicum" and "Dance Production Practicum", and the School of Film and New Media's "Film Festival Practicum". In 2020, 37 courses were offered with 771 enrolments; in 2021 there were 13 more courses added, with a total of 20186 enrolments.

The school's art entrepreneurship education aims to empower students to transform creativity into entrepreneurship and enhance the campus' entrepreneurial atmosphere. In 2020, the school reconstructed its innovation and education counseling resource integration system. In 2021, the school held the "Dear Dream Maker" campus micro-entrepreneurship competition. The competition selected eight teams with market potential, tested their results through exhibitions and sales, and provided a total of NTD 310,000 in prize funding, giving proposed ventures the opportunity to be validated by capital injection. In 2021, the "Arts Entrepreneurship Micro-Program" was opened to five institutes, with a total of 22 courses listed as elective credit courses.

Thirteen professionals and alumni were invited to share their entrepreneurial experiences. Between the program and the competition, students had the opportunity to meet potential partners in other departments, enhance their entrepreneurial skills and knowledge, obtain new industry resources, gain energy and inspiration, and enhance their ability to transform artistic creativity into business opportunities. The program coached four entrepreneurial teams to apply for government subsidy programs. A total of four teams (respectively "Pan Pan Huar", "ALTER EGO", "Theater Light" and "Mango Jump") received a total of NTD 650,000 in approved subsidies. The school will continue to offer guidance and coaching to teams with entrepreneurial potential and help them move forward on the road of artistic creation (Fig. 4).

Fig. 4 Student entrepreneurial teams receiving government subsidies.

3. Accumulate students' professional and interdisciplinary knowledge and experiences, and improve learning outcomes

The school's art curriculum emphasizes combining theory and practice, giving students opportunities to publish, present, and exchange their learnings, and enhancing students' employability through hands-on learning and accumulating practical experience in the field. Employing professional teachers and artists from Taiwan and abroad, the school cultivates students' foundational skills and critical discussion abilities through general education, reading and writing, programming, innovation and entrepreneurship, and interdisciplinary courses and activity programs. Students receive systematic arts training from different perspectives in transnational, cross-cultural and professional fields.

Over the years, the school has provided students with multiple interdisciplinary learning channels, enriching the interdisciplinary learning environment and offering students greater diversification and autonomy in their studies. Enrichment measures include intramural and intercollegiate study of minors and double majors, intramural credit courses, education courses, etc. In 2021, a total of 153 students were enrolled in the school's intercollegiate courses, minors programs, double majors and education courses.

Over the past nine years, through the "General and Interdisciplinary Art Appreciation" course module offered by the Center for General Education, approximately eight art appreciation courses were offered each semester. A new art appreciation course (Music and Film) will be added in 2022. The School of Film and New Media's college-based compulsory foundational courses and interdisciplinary courses open an average of about 60 courses each year for around 1,600 total enrollments. In addition, the school promotes interdisciplinary college/school cooperative teaching programs, Arts Matching Service- Learning, the GenieLab interdisciplinary creative program, and other varied types of environments for interdisciplinary creation and exhibition.

[Highlights] Department of New Media Arts' interdisciplinary and intercollegiate cooperative teaching plan

Modeled as a "New Media Interdisciplinary Teaching Base", the program is held annually for second-and third-year bachelor students. During the fourth session, the school cooperated with the Shih Chien University Department of Architecture and the National Taiwan University Department of Civil Engineering to hold the three-week "Lightweight" intercollegiate interdisciplinary creative workshop, which established TNUA as a key player in the field of new media art and diversified creative education. The workshop strengthens students' ability to implement installation structures from an architectural perspective and cultivates their ability to think artistically from a new media art perspective and apply new media techniques. Students from the three schools are divided into mixed groups and work together from concept development through on-site production and presentation. Instructors from the three schools collaboratively provide evaluation and interactive guidance, giving students feedback from different disciplinary perspectives.

In 2018 and 2019, the workshops were created and exhibited in the residence of Treasure Hill Artist Village, an important exhibition hall for art and culture in Taipei City. In 2020, students' works based around the theme of "towers" were exhibited in different areas of the Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab (C-LAB), located at the site of the former air force command headquarters in Daan District of Taipei City. The program theme in 2021 was "topology", focusing mainly on the properties that remain unchanged under continuous changes in space. A total of 11 instructors and 78 students from three schools participated in the program, and the resulting works were exhibited at Treasure Hill Artist Village. The program has developed steadily thanks to funding from the plan, and is now entering its fifth year (Fig. 5).

Fig. 5 The on-site design, intercollegiate discussion, evaluation, and on-site installation of the tri-school cooperative teaching plan

ll. Develop the school's uniqueness

The school-level key development plan will enable the school to jointly develop unique intercollegiate collaborative courses with multiple advantages, demonstrate exceptional innovative teaching achievements, and establish trademark programs like the Kuandu Light Art Festival, Technology and Music Transdisciplinary Experimental Theater, TAD Lab, and Socially Engaged Art Learning as brand models of higher education in the arts. With its long-term and strategic approach to training and encouragement of independent learning, this interdisciplinary collaborative learning model plays a unique and irreplaceable educational function in Taiwan.

1. Interdisciplinary Innovation Courses: Curriculum-Driven Interdisciplinary Artistic Experimentation

(1)[Highlights] "EAT DaVinci" at Kuandu Light Art Festival

Kuandu Light Art Festival is planned and hosted by TNUA Department of New Media Art. It is the product of the Department's continuous inquiry and exploration into the question "what is interdisciplinary art" and experimentation with large-scale new media theater that subverts physical space and artistic experience. The exhibitions "High Swimming" (2018) and "Moving Badly" (2019) were exhibited in the TNUA swimming pool, while 2020's "Quantum Entanglement" created possibilities for brand-new exhibition spaces in both the Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts and the local area. The 2021 Kuandu Light Art Festival "EAT DaVinci" marked the first time the school's new media art entered the dining space. The exhibition echoed the dishes with immersive images, and used image, sound, and interactive installations to "stack" the meals layer by layer." The name "EAT" is an acronym that stands for Experimental, Artificial, and Technical. The exhibition relates how the artist creates scientific and technological works of art when engaging in new media creation in a spirit of experimentation. Combining immersive projection and interactive image with the theme of Taiwanese cuisine, the exhibition uses a food-related context to address daily life issues and creates an interdisciplinary feast for the senses (Fig. 6).

Fig. 6 Results of the "EAT DaVinci" exhibition at the Kuandu Light Art Festival

(2) [Highlights] Kuandu Light Art Festival "Post Garden II - Counterpoint"

Since 2017, the TNUA Department of Music and Department of New Media Art have been working closely with the GRAME Centre National de Création Musicale in Lyon, France. The school invited renowned percussionist Jean Geoffroy to serve as artistic director in launching a series of international interdisciplinary innovative experimental education and performance programs for contemporary music, science, and art. Following "Incarnating Sounds" (2017), "Looking Sounds" (2018) and "Energy Transfigured" (2019), "Post Garden" (2020) is based on previous years' experience in interdepartmental and international cooperation. In 2021, the school revitalized the "Post Garden" concept with the additional integration of digital technology and original contemporary music, and opened courses such as "Interdisciplinary Special Topics of Ultrasonic Sound" as second-major courses. The programs led dozens of students from the Department of New Media Art to collaborate with composition and performance teams from the Department of Music in the creation of "Post Garden II - Counterpoint".

After nine months of coursework, workshops, practical research and development, stage presentation, creative trial and error, theater rehearsals, and other processes, students integrated their own hand-made musical instruments, real instrumental music, interactive electroacoustic music, and video devices to create a "Technology and Music Transdisciplinary Experimental Theater", an innovative and highly experimental interdisciplinary creative exhibition mode that breaks out of established frameworks. There were three ticketed performances during the Kuandu Art Festival, with an additional 1225 viewers tuning in via livestream. The exhibition performed brilliantly in the box office and received critical acclaim and positive reviews from attendees of all backgrounds (Fig. 7).

Fig. 7 Results of the " Post Garden II - Counterpoint " exhibition at the Kuandu Light Art Festival

2.Doctoral Experimental Course "Hero's Journey: Topics of Interdisciplinarity Studies in Arts"

TNUA's motto is "Set foot on Kuandu, look at the world". TNUA offers doctoral programs in five major arts and culture colleges, including music, fine arts, drama, dance, and cultural resources. In order to cultivate high-level talent for independent research and thinking, promote the practice of creativity and multidisciplinary thinking, and enhance dialogue between teachers and students from different fields, the school seeks to establish a more diversified interdisciplinary academic exchange platform for doctoral students. In the first semester of the 2021 academic year, the school invited scholars on key art and culture topics to offer interdisciplinary experimental elective courses for doctoral classes—"Hero's Journey: Topics of Interdisciplinarity Studies in Arts".

"Hero's Journey: Topics of Interdisciplinarity Studies in Arts" was co-taught by Professor Lin Shaw-Ren of the TNUA Graduate Institute of Arts and Humanities Education and Director Andy Yu of the Graduate Institute of Arts Administration and Management. The school also specially invited Professor Wu Jing-Jyi to serve as education consultant and assist in curriculum and teaching methodology design, taking time during weekends to launch diverse and richly innovative centralized courses inside and outside of the school's academic field. A total of 14 doctoral students enrolled in the program, which enabled them to take courses across five institutes—music, art, drama, dance, and literature. The program's objective was to guide students to consider and explore issues within Taiwan's society, culture, politics, science and technology, education that can be solved with art, integrated into teaching, researched, and formed into service programs. The program also aimed to establish a "creativity-driven" and "resource-driven" interdisciplinary network for students to learn and grow individually and as a team, as well as to enhance doctoral students' research capabilities within their academic careers (Fig. 8).

Fig. 8 "Hero's Journey: Topics of Interdisciplinarity Studies in Arts" student trip to Taomi Eco-Village in Puli

Related Links｜

Taipei Arts Doctoral Research Lab Facebook Official Fan Page

Achievements and Highlights of the Doctoral Research Experimental Curriculum Plan

Previous Achievements of TAD Research Lab and TNUA

TAD Research Lab and TNUA Achievement - Past research results (film)

lll.Make higher education more accessible

1. Improve school assistance mechanisms to promote social mobility

The school will introduce measures in accordance with Appendix 1 in the MOE's Higher Education Sprout Project, "Improving the Accessibility of Higher Education: Improving Assistance Mechanisms for Vulnerable Groups and Effectively Promoting Social Mobility" and with the campus enrollment and university specialization development plan. These measures will improve the school's assistance mechanisms for students belonging to culturally deprived groups or lacking sufficient educational resources.

To facilitate recruitment of economically or socially disadvantaged students with distinctive artistic talents, the school established diversified admission channels, including "Multi Star Project", "Independent Admission", "Individual Application", "Four Skills and Two Majors" and "Special Admission for Distinctive Students". The school also provides tuition relief, subsidies, and entrance examination assistance services to help disadvantaged students reduce the burden of examinations. Through assistance mechanisms, the number of student enrolments increased: the enrollment rate of first-year bachelor's classes was 7.18% in 2018 and 9.21% in 2019. In 2020, the admission rate of students in this category dropped to 6.8% due to a 27.6% drop in the total number of applicants, then rose to 8.89% in 2021. The admission rate of culturally disadvantaged students ranged from 0.25% to 0.27% in 2018-2020 and increased to 0.48% in 2021, indicating the implementation of assistance measures produced a slight increase in the admission rate of such students.

To raise awareness of school admission options and academic counseling services among economically or culturally deprived students, the school organized engagement and promotion activities such as "Art Experience Activities" and "Campus Visit Day" to expand student sources. However, some activities in the first half of the year were cancelled or postponed because of COVID-19 epidemic prevention measures. In the second half of the year, after the epidemic stabilized, the school and various departments cooperated with targeted secondary schools to conduct master classes, art experience activities, student recruitment seminars and other activities in both online and offline formats. Feedback and statistics show that 7.3% of the students who participated in the school's engagement activities were from economically disadvantaged families, 5.2% were from outlying islands and remote areas, 2.8% were indigenous, and 3% were new residents. This shows that approximately 20-30% of the students who participated in the school's enrollment activities experience some kind of economic or cultural disadvantage (Fig. 9).

經濟弱勢（低收/中低收）Economically disadvantaged (low income/medium-low income)

離島及偏遠地區學生Outlying Islands and students from remote areas

原住民Indigenous people

新住民及其子女New residents and their children

實驗教育學生Experimental education students

境外臺生Overseas Taiwanese students

特殊境遇家庭Families in Special Situations

否No

學障生Students with learning disabilities

清寒Students under poverty line

身障生Students with physical disabilities

Fig. 9 Analysis of special identity students who participated in school engagement activities in 2021

[Highlights] Implementing the Special Admission for Distinctive Students Plan：
Distinctive achievements, talents, performance, or potential with limited learning resources due to economic or cultural disadvantages

Through the establishment of qualification conditions by the department, students are no longer limited by academic achievement requirements. The school offers educational opportunities, counseling, and resources for outstanding candidates with economic or cultural disadvantages and different educational qualifications (such as overseas Taiwanese students, new residents and their children, experimental education students, students with overseas academic qualifications who apply and hold credible foreign entrance examination results, etc.) and distinctive talents. For the 2022 academic year, 199 candidates passed the Special Admission for Distinctive Students examination, of whom 32 were financially disadvantaged (compared to 40 in the 2021 academic year).

Among these, culturally disadvantaged individuals included 15 children of new residents (compared to 14 in the 2021 academic year), nine indigenous students (five in the 2021 academic year), one student from a family with special circumstances, two students with physical and mental disabilities, and 44 students in experimental education (22 in the 2021 academic year). Among the above 32 candidates with financial disadvantages, 24 applied to the drama department, which only offers the entrance examination to students from disadvantaged backgrounds. These preliminary results show that this enrollment channel may help the department to unlock potential talent. In the future, the school will analyze data in the student learning effectiveness platform to track the academic performance and graduation rates of the students enrolled through this channel and evaluate its effectiveness as a talent recruitment mechanism.

2.Indigenous Student Resource Center Student Counseling Effectiveness and Creating an Ethnically Inclusive Campus

The Indigenous Student Resource Center was established on July 1, 2020, and the inauguration ceremony was held on October 22. The Center provides comprehensive counseling services to help Indigenous students to fully engage in their studies, create an inclusive environment, and advance the diversification of TNUA's talents and campus culture. Through cooperation with the Academic Affairs Office, the Computer Center, and the Student Consultation Center, we have gathered basic background knowledge about the indigenous student population, including their languages, hometowns, and other relevant information.

In 2021, we continued to hold the "The Gathering of Indigenous Students" seminars for new and returning students, encouraging students who dropped out of school to return and participate in a series of activities. The school invited experts, scholars, practitioners and alumni familiar with indigenous issues to deliver keynote speeches on career exploration and share their own personal experiences with higher education and employment. The school also used these outreach activities to promote relevant scholarships and tuition reductions and exemptions, introduce the Indigenous Student Resource Center's facilities and services, and provide various forms of assistance. The information system co-created by the Academic Affairs Office and Computer Center integrates basic student information with data gathered from the alumni post-graduation survey.

In the future, the school will continue to hold seminars on various topics based on student needs. In addition, during Indigenous Culture Week, the school held a "Cultural Folk Dance Pop-Up Event" in the hopes of providing an ethnically inclusive campus gathering, and about 175 participants attended. To understand the views of indigenous students on ethnicity and self-identity within the school context, and also to provide staff and students opportunities to better understand indigenous culture, we provide indigenous students with opportunities to participate and showcase Indigenous culture in various types of school activities, such as the Kuandu Light Art Festival and graduation ceremony.

3. TNUA Resource Sharing and School Performance Transparency

TNUA accumulates many achievements every year in teaching, creation and exhibition, promotion of art education, and community and industry events. In addition to the Center for Art Resources and Educational Outreach, TNUA engages all departments to host the "Summer School'' (art, dance, animation, drama, and traditional music). The program invites students from eighth grade to sophomore year to experience TNUA's art education through hands-on learning, artistic creation, and teamwork with classmates from different backgrounds and age groups. In addition to uploading various school information to the MOE's school affairs information portal, building a school affairs information app, and publishing exhibitions and academic activities on the school's official website, the website of the Higher Education Sprout Project digitally preserves implementation results over the years.

The school's information is also published through social platforms such as Facebook, Instagram and YouTube. The 2021 Higher Education Intensive Cultivation Plan achievements exhibition was held online. For the exhibition, 21 short films documenting the achievements of each plan were uploaded, and a one month lucky draw was held, engaging approximately 2500 participants. Relevant information is provided to all stakeholders, and information disclosure items are revised year by year in the form of rolling review.

Related links｜

USR Hub of TNUA Facebook Official Fan Page

USR Hub: achievements of the Sprout Project over the years

Hi-Five Plus: International Art Dialogue from the Pingpu Ethnic Group in Beitou to the Indigenous People in Pingtung

Achievements of the Arts Matching Service- Learning

1.Taipei City. Beitou:

Beitou Walking: the Interpretation and Representation of the History, Environment , Life and the Memory in Beitou.

Based from the School of Culture Resources, this project integrates dance, music, fine arts, drama, new media, and other creative modes within the art college. Through interdisciplinary communication and integration, it consists of three "sub-projects" which examine Beitou from three aspects. The "life" sub-project aims to help the Beitou community to construct its historical and cultural context, diverse community, diverse cross-regional partnerships, and working modes from a local perspective. It also links the cultural policies of the Taipei Municipal Government's Department of Cultural Affairs with the development, performance, and reproduction of historical and cultural content, so as to form a cultural public platform for the Beitou area. The "Environment" sub-project cooperates with Guandu Nature Park and D.B. Art Collective to discuss issues such as the human and natural environment in the Guandu area, and present their teaching patterns through image, or present their works with other methods. The "Block" Sub-Project collaborates with teachers from Academia Sinica and Cheng Kung University. Students are taught to use a GIS mapping information system and go out to research the Beitou area, analyze regional maps. They then integrate, interpret and reproduce their data in combination with local literature, oral history, existing relics, and other materials to reconstruct the life and appearance of Guandu old street.

USR Hub of TNUA connects students from all departments in the school to give full play to their artistic talents, expand community development, and echo the Taipei Municipal Government Department of Cultural Affairs' recent cultural policies, such as "urban tourism" and "cultural sustainability". This project ultimately aims to assist in the integration of the "Beitou Living Eco-Museum" and enhance cultural content to facilitate the establishment of a new lifestyle and philosophy. One example is "Beitou Walking - Beitou Park", designed by TNUA Graduate Institute of Museum Studies instructor Huang Zhan-Yan and her team. This project included designing interesting reading materials and lively interactive games for primary school students and leading the fifth grade students from Nanguo Elementary School to imagine Beitou Park a hundred years ago, using observation, history, and environmental science to travel back in time. Students were led to listen to seniors' stories, understand what the park meant to people at that time, and then describe the park in their imagination, incorporating elements such as hot springs, the Japanese colonial period, the story behind the facilities in the park, and the exploration of the park's ecological resources (Fig. 10).

Fig. 10 Students from Nanguo Elementary School studying the landscape of Xinbeitou Park

2.Miaoli County. Toufen. Luzhunan:

Home in Luzhunan - Luzhunan Community Preservation and Development Companion Program

TNUA has long promoted art to deepen local cultivation and use "art" to solve local problems. From the perspective of students' learning, the college's professional artistic research expertise and systematic climbing ability of cultural knowledge, combined with teaching and practice, assist local partners to explore their own culture. However, "art society practice" is not a single art form, but a compound creation mode, and needs to accompany field partners for a long time, disturb the place and accumulate the energy of art. The field practice of this project will focus on the creative practice of "participatory art", so that students must "truly" interact with the local community and create together. Teachers will set up interdisciplinary courses and transfer teaching to enter the field to lead students to study and discuss topics, so that students can collide, talk and communicate with people and things around their lives from different field perspectives, and cultivate students' innovative and integrated ability.

The Luzhunan Community Preservation and Development Companion Program participates in the preservation and development of the community through education and outreach, including: assisting in the planning and implementation of the Lu Zhu Nan Arts Festival , designing courses with Luzhunan as the “classroom”, and hosting community documentary film festivals. Through the program of USR Hub, students get involved in community outreach and learn theories and exhibition planning methods for integrating art with regional revitalization and community building. They also help the community to access external resources, accumulating community records and image materials, providing professional exhibition planning assistance, and working closely with the community through the development and promotion of regional revitalization (Fig. 11, Fig. 12).

Fig. 11: Teachers and students take a group photo with the chairman of the Miaoli County Traditional Settlement Culture Association.
Fig. 12: Students plan the theme and draw a map of Luzhunan Community

3.Taitung County. Green Island. National Museum of Human Rights:
2021 Green Island Human Rights Art Festival "Through the Reflection of Green Island"

Over a semester of coursework and studying, through readings on memory politics and seminars on art-based social engagement by teachers from different colleges, students gradually develop their own perspectives and ideas about various social issues. This project explores the relationship between Taiwan's contemporary society and its historical journey to democracy and transforms it into artistic creation via different artistic media. As a collaboration with the National Museum of Human Rights, this project offers issue-based intercollegiate innovation courses coupled with interdisciplinary experimental art proposals.

This project hopes to use the penetrating power of field research and cultural performance and exhibition to reproduce, in a contemporary and site-specific way, the diverse and complex historical traumatic memories that have been excluded from public discourse. This project also hopes to elevate Green Island Human Rights Art Festival beyond a simple commemoration and transform it into an art festival that can lead the conversation, raise awareness about this topic, and promote transformation and justice, provoking reflection and promoting social discussion.

In 2021, the school continued its longstanding collaboration with the National Museum of Human Rights. This year, TNUA once again participated in the Green Island Human Rights Art Festival. After one semester of coursework and guidance, three groups of outstanding works were selected to participate in the exhibition. This year's theme is reflected in multimedia forms such as film, poetry, and new media installations. The "Through the Reflection of Green Island" exhibition will be displayed for three months in the Green Island Human Rights Culture Park. In addition, for the first time, we also cooperated with Green Island Junior High School to combine human rights issues with art and bring them into the classroom through two sets of educational promotion workshops. These courses guide students step-by-step back to Green Island as it was in the 1950s, invite them to reflect on how Taiwan should face/remember this history, and then help them connect this history to contemporary democratic issues (Fig. 13).

Fig. 13 Students from Green Island Junior High transform words into visual art during a workshop

Related Links｜2021 Green Island Human Rights Art Festival - "Through the Reflection of Green Island" official website, Facebook fan page

Media Exposure｜"Through the Reflection of Green Island" Green Island Human Rights Art Festival Opens on 17th (Chen Wan-Chien, published May 16, 2021 United Daily News)

Through the Reflection of Green Island: “2021 Green Island Art Festival”, Holding Up a Mirror to Reflect Overlapping Lives and the B-side of Historiography (Tung Yung-Wei, published on ARTouch on September 15, 2021)

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