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Taiwan Indigenous: City Mascots—An Illustrated Guide
By interviewing the g0v's long-term contributor LIU and the professional costumed performer Orin, let us understand these mascots made in Taiwan.
DATE2023.05.19
Public PolicyMascotDatabase
Review
Dream City: Keeping Each Other’s Company Where Accepts Fragility
CHIU shares with us her experience of interning at the Dream City, and how she gradually learned to accompany and support others, while also delivering her own contributions.
DATE2023.05.02
internshiphomelessArtpoverty
Review
The Technology Made “Unrestricted” —The Mobilization and Integration as Adopted in A World: If, a Family Trip (2022)
If the ever-present “problématique” throughout The Unrestricted Society touches upon “the use of technology to create new and different aesthetic experiences,” how can A World: If, a Family Trip(2022) respond to it and bring it into practice?
DATE2023.03.15
CREATORSHer Lab SpaceThe Unrestricted Society
Review
Easy Read Guides: From “Information Accessibility” to “Engagement of People with Disabilities”
"Easy Read guides" is a form of information accessibility, which translates existing life information, cultural activities, and social welfare informations into simple and understandable visual explanations. The Easy Read guides is an accelerator for cultural exchange and the development of civic awareness.
DATE2022.12.02
inclusivecultural equityEasy Read guideEngagement of People with Disabilities
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Prototypes of the Everyday can be a Playground—Interview with Yoyo KUNG on a Curious Exhibition and Adventure
After working for more than 10 years, Yoyo KUNG spent almost six months attending art festivals in Europe, going anywhere curiosity brought her. Then she established the Prototype Paradise with friends.
DATE2022.11.10
Prototype Paradiseexperts of everyday lifesite-specific artPerforming Art
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Conservation Research from Degradation and Identification: Chemical Engineering Department of Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine PhD student LIU Guan-Lin’s Career in Scientific Conservation
“You have to understand how it spoiled before you do the research of conservation.” LIU shared from his seem-to-be-circuitous educational experiences to new techniques applied to identification and analyses of artifacts for further development of cultural artifact asset conservation.
DATE2022.10.20
cultural preservationartifact restorationscienceidentification
Review
Art and Climate Change: An Unexplored Field of Collaboration
Green-collar workers have sought alliances with arts and cultural workers to invoke the power of storytelling, making climate science more approachable and mobilizing the masses to practice climate actions. However, the tendency of seeing arts and culture workers as “storytellers” among Green-collar workers reflects flaws in existing climate action, and is not what arts and culture workers expect to achieve through their work. Contemporary art’s way of responding conceptually and through artistic action also does not meet the green-collar workers’ expectations of “solving rather than responding to the issue.”
DATE2022.10.12
climate changenet-zero emissionsart action
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Beyond Military Legacy: The Multifaceted Heritage of Kinmen
The imprints left on Kinmen represent the values of ordinary residents fighting for survival between periods of war and peace, living by their traditional culture and pursuing peace, shaping a multi-dimensional cultural landscape. It involves not only the military battlefield heritage for which it is widely-known, but also the overlapped Southern Min and returned overseas Chinese cultural memories spanning in time and space.
DATE2022.09.21
returned overseas Chinese culturemuseumwartime culturecultural memoryKinmenSouthern Min culture
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Breaking down Moral Boundaries and Uncovering the Truth about Industrial Livestock Production, mEat me: Eat Your own Meat!?
Theresa SCHUBERT uses the body as an experimental subject, producing artificial meat through the regeneration of cells from her own body. This is her attempt to break down boundaries, including the divides between humans and animals and what is considered “civilized” and what is considered “savage.”
DATE2022.09.14
scientific and technical ethicsTechnology Artcultured meatThe Unrestricted Society
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More than a Music Festival: Artistic Actions and Attempts for Taiwan’s Historical Memory before Moving towards Co-existence
For Taiwan, an island with multiple ethnic groups and entangled history, perhaps there is still a long way to go in achieving genuine “co-existence.” At least to date, there remains nonetheless a group of people in Taiwan who strive to march forward.
DATE2022.08.03
228 Peace Memorial Dayhuman rightsGong Sheng Music FestivalmemoryTransitional Justice
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Culture Is Life: An Interview with GÔO Pik-uí of Àm-khenn Culture Studio
The Àm-khenn Culture Studio set up by GÔO Pik-uí is a base for inquiring, tracing, and cataloging its cultural and anthropological heritage, identifying with the “Àm-khenn person” in the promotion of Àm-khenn culture.
DATE2022.07.21
regional revitalizationcultural workÀm-khenn Culture Studio
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The Loss of Cultural Roots: “Subterranean Taiwan” Meets Relocation
In Taiwan, bōng-á, or grave, is a term both familiar and distant. However, the erection of each tomb highlights the substantial collection of cultural values of a place, and each property reflects the craftsmanship, economic status, familial qualities, and geographical features of a site.
DATE2022.05.04
graveyard culturecultural heritageÀm-khennhistory
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Keting Kurt CHEN of the Collectors
Co-Space: A Return to the Hometown or Stirring the Pond? The Courage to Leap in
Having participated in agricultural technical assistance work in countries of the Caribbeans and the Pacific islands, Keting Kurt CHEN returns to Taiwan to seeks out traditional wisdom in coexisting with nature, and sets up the Collectors Co-Space in Pinglin.
DATE2022.04.27
collectionthe Collectors Co-Spaceplantssustainability
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Talum Ispalidav: Buan Is Talking, Wielding Words as Scalpels, the Critical Voices of Aboriginal Youth in Contemporary Times
Established in July 2020, Buan Is Talking leverages the social media to raise awareness of issues relating to Taiwanese indigenous peoples.
DATE2022.01.19
indigenous peoplesmedia empowermentpolicy advocacy
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A Modern Prometheus
The article is about the history of Processing by Casey REAS and Ben FRY, who were the founders of Processing Foundation.
DATE2021.10.11
codeProcessingMIT Media Lab

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