105-2 Master of Advanced Design Studio (II)-Landscape Planning and Management

Village and Agricultural Landscape Planning and Management – Village Landscape Planning and Management in Zhuangwei – Landscape Story / Landscape Tour / Terroir Table

In the next semester, the Advanced Planning and Design (II) course in the Department of Landscape Architecture at Chung Yuan University will lead students to a different way of thinking about landscape management. In the course, graduate students from different fields will be allowed to present their own viewpoints on local management, leading them to think strategically about landscape management beyond the drawing board. The purpose of the next semester’s course is to allow students to understand the concept of “landscape”. The concept of “landscape” is used to express the importance of promoting the dynamic management of the landscape, and at the same time to achieve sustainable local landscape and development.
In this course, the strategic management of the area around Kaliusapu, Jhuangwei Township, Yilan County, was considered in three ways, namely, the scenic story group, the local table group, and the scenic game group, and the results of each group are shown below:

Landscape Story Group – Cai Yizi, He Tingting
The students visited the local communities and interviewed them to learn more about the local rural life, and from the exchange of local community life and ingredients, the stories of local life in Jhuangwe were woven. From the perspective of a small sparrow, the students flew over the rice fields and stayed in the local community to listen to the stories of the local community and farmland, and produced a picture book of local stories. The textual narrative approach is one of the ways to manage the landscape, because the management of the landscape is not only the design, but also the textual story of the place.

“The Little Sparrow and the Little Peanut” picture book section inside page
The freedom of the little sparrow is like the globalization phenomenon covering the whole village, which makes the most precious local value of the village disappear gradually. The little peanut prefers nature and loves the sandy land where it lives, which represents the strong localization and localization. In contrast to the story, the local knot emphasizes sharing and human feelings, and the globalized division of labor and production knot, and the picture book shows that localization is better than globalization in terms of the intimate connection between people. In the dialogue between the little sparrow and the little peanut, apart from local industries and prices, it is more important to unite social and cultural contexts, to seek local development and to cherish local values at the same time.

Landscape Architecture Board Game Group – Kai-Feng Yang and Zisheng Xu
By designing a landscape-based board game to simulate the possible changes of the rural landscape in the future, we present the possible changes of the landscape through the process of the landscape-based board game and the game, and reflect on how any human decision will affect the changes of the landscape.
As the visitor center in Zhuangwei will be opened in 2018, it is based on the concept of green building, and also integrates with the Yilan landscape, presenting the dune landscape, and hopes to combine with the Zhuangwei bicycle path, so that Yilan’s tourism can add a new page, is it an opportunity? Opportunity? Or is it a crisis? Such tourist centers are not uncommon in Taiwan, and many places have attracted many industries to move in immediately after the creation of landmark tourist centers, but such industries often become the first line of globalized industries moving in, gradually crowding out and disappearing the original landscape features and industries. During the ten years since the tourist center was built, traditional agriculture and tourism industries will gradually mix, so how to develop tourism during this golden time of rapid development, while maintaining the unique local scenery and industries, has become the most important issue for us.

In order to predict the possible changes in Zhuangwei during the ten years after the opening of the Visitor Center, the students tried to simulate these changes in the form of a board game, in which all the possible causes and changes and all the relationships that can cause changes in the landscape of Zhuangwei were included in the game.

It is a choice of landscape value, an innovative idea of landscape tabletop tour, and a participatory design tool that invites the local community to think together, so that they can think about where they want to take the next feat.

Terroir Table Group – Jenny Chen and T.Y. Yao
Food is used as a medium for the management of the local landscape and the reproduction of local characteristics, and the local characteristics of Jhuangwei are presented through the local table, and food is used to link small farmers, communities and social economy in Jhuangwei, and to identify local values and development under the influence of globalization.
By using the terroir table as a medium and platform to emphasize the development of place, it also indirectly forms a link between food and geography, and by discussing food along the axis of representation and reproduction, we are using symbols and entities to understand a specific rural cultural geography. When food is used as a physical entity to identify places, the existence of places can be directly explained through land, environment and climate, people and production behaviors, but the living experiences created by places still have a unique human locational phenomenon, and the meanings and values embedded in their socio-cultural and economic network relationship forms are the basis for alternative understanding of places.

Jhuangwe Local Table Reproduction – presenting Jhuangwe local ingredients with the physicality of food, and inviting local units to participate
The preparation of the terroir table, together with the local community, farmers, and chefs, is a cross-disciplinary integration and reproduction of identity, which will be constantly changed by various environmental and human factors. Through this experiment, we hope to influence local communities and local governments to consider preserving the value of rural landscapes when operating municipalities in the future.

The Centaline Master of Landscape Architecture program aims to lead and nurture future landscape/landscape professionals to think differently about landscape management strategies. In addition to using the previous study of landscape spatial planning in the first semester to allow interdisciplinary students to connect with the professional spatial planning aspects of landscape, the second semester of the program also leads students to think more strategically about landscape management and grasp the core of landscape value.