The campus environment

The aesthetic concept of the campus environment: Valuing our land and creating a space of reality and imagination

The characteristics of creative development derives from self-identification, but to self-identify does not mean to blindly imitate others. Only by starting from the ground under our feet, right from the grassroots level, and spreading according to the "terrain", will the process be authentic and the results will be extensive and compelling. As Edward W. Soja refers to as the "thirdspace", it has the quality of "real and imagined", people must think and define the space they live in, and reconstruct the possibility and action of an-Other. How to recreate the an-Other of the community and create the an-Other of the space in which it is located through the development of a developable local identity is a realistic question for the future.
Yen Shui-Long, known as the "Father of Taiwanese Crafts", was born into the local Yen clan (Hongjia Borough, Xiaying District). He dedicated his life to promoting the aestheticization of Taiwan's local crafts and is a pioneer of mosaic (inlay) public art in Taiwan. The practical aesthetics he advocates can be described as an expression of the pursuit of beauty in life, and through the aesthetic connotation of the living environment, he constructs a universal sense and creation of "beauty". The concept and actions of Yen Shui-Long are sublimated into the concept of local cultural wealth. We will leverage his aesthetic ideas to guide the creation of the aesthetic campus, and utilize his signature mosaic techniques as a symbolic manifestation of aesthetics, embodying another kind of an-Other where literature and aesthetics intermingle in a predetermined reading environment, transformed into a space for local aesthetic experience and cultural exploration.