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TAIPEI, June 15, 2022 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/ --

"Design Movement on Campus" is a collaboration between Taiwan Design Research

Institute (TDRI) and Ministry of Education (MOE), with the purposes of helping

senior high schools/vocational high schools, junior high schools, and

elementary schools across the nation to select professional design teams to

transform school campus together, and innovating educational thinking and

solutions through design thinking to reconsider the meaning of educational

sites. Since the launch of "Design Movement on Campus 1.0" in 2019, the project

has transformed 55 schools into demonstration schools of aesthetics over the

past three years, and won major international and domestic design awards, such

as Japan's Good Design Award and Germany's iF and German Design Awards.

This year, "Design Movement on Campus 3.0" works with 25 schools and selects 21

design teams to enter the sites of education and execute the task of

transformation. The design teams not only carry out spatial transformation for

various thematic classrooms, such as music class, art class, or carpentry

class, but also conduct functional and environmental experiments on different

areas on campus, like compound cafeteria, signage system, and outdoor

multifunctional area.

Zhongxiao Elementary School in Taichung originally had insufficient space in

the Food and Agriculture Classroom. Teachers and students had to move the

furniture to the hallway for classes, and the storage and food ingredient

planning were not ideal either. The design team, "Office AAA," introduces

situational design imagination through the flow of service design, and

significantly expands the space of the classroom by exposing some kitchen

furniture, connecting outdoor space through large window frames, and creating

diverse arrangements of desks and chairs, allowing teachers and students to

utilize the classroom with greater flexibility. This is one of the best cases

of classrooms with organic units created through the flow of service design.

Nanhe Elementary School in Miaoli County, on the other hand, raised a design

need past design teams had never encountered – renovation of the chicken coop.

Originally, there was no clear boundary between the chicken coop and the

compost area of leaves, making it hard to use the chicken coop as a site of

education. "Whispace Studio" uses a smooth and curvy white metal fence to

create an omega shaped ecological site of food and agriculture under the

Taiwanese oak, linking and creating an uninterrupted flow of traffic from the

coop, tree, food and agricultural garden, and compost space. Each hen has own

nametag and egg tray, introducing life education to students' learning;

teachers and students can also observe from close proximity the behaviors and

life of hens. Moreover, the project creates an educational site of ecology and

food and agriculture where teachers, students, and community citizens can

thrive and learn together with the hens.

For this wonderful project to be seen and joined by more people, "Design

Movement on Campus 3.0" has launched the "Design Movement on Campus Online

Exhibition" (website: campusfield.design.org.tw), overcoming the barriers of

space and distance to showcase all the achievements of the project over the

past three years; also, by continually accumulating cases over the years, the

project hopes to provide an open platform of aesthetics transformation

learning, calling for more professionals at Taiwan's educational sites,

designers, and enterprises to join the project and provide design ideas and

resources, laying a sound foundation of aesthetics in the environment of

education for Taiwan's future generations.

Source: Taiwan Design Research Institute

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   Caption: Top: Zhongxiao Elementary School Before and After the Transformation; Bottom:

Nanhe Elementary School Before and After the Transformation