In addition to the participation of partner schools, the involvement and support of teacher training committee members are also an indispensable part of the interdisciplinary aesthetics project. Starting in November, we will invite teacher training committee members to share their insightful discussions and achievements in promoting interdisciplinary aesthetics.

The first runner-up is on the field!
Professor Tsung-Sheng Teng from National Pingtung University presented "ASC Cross-Domain Forum: Dancing in the Flow of Identity in Art, Science, and Civic Life."
"I have served as a committee member of the Shi Pei Committee in Pingtung for more than five years on my journey of cross-disciplinary aesthetics."
Starting with my initial exchanges with Professor Wu Hongyi of the Department of Music at National Pingtung University and Professor Gao Zhenfeng, the host from the Southern Taiwan region, I gradually got to know the community members in the Kaohsiung-Pingtung area. In the interactions and exchanges that continued to extend to Penghu, Taitung and other parts of Taiwan, I felt that every teacher and every school is a creator of a stage and landscape for students to experience cross-disciplinary aesthetics. The teachers' teaching scenes are the inspiration map for my research journey.

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Over the years, based on my art-centric research and during my short-term research in the United States, I have observed how NAEA connects art educators across a vast region, sharing creativity and exchanging ideas. This power of "meeting each other" became the driving force behind my efforts to organize the "Art, Science and Society Cross-Domain Forum" after returning to Taiwan.
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Working in the Faculty of Science, I ponder daily: How can we foster interdisciplinary aesthetics? How can we empower students not merely as learners of academic subjects, but also as artists and scientists engaged in social participation? Thus, I named this forum ASC—Artist, Scientist, Citizen—the flow and interweaving of these three identities is the core spirit of our forum. Everyone in the interdisciplinary aesthetics education community practices the perception and creation of an artist, the critical thinking and exploration of a scientist, and the community connection and action of a citizen. These three identities are not divisions of labor, but rather a flow of roles and capabilities.

This was the first forum I organized using the ASC concept. I especially want to thank the teachers from Pingtung District who were the first to respond, including Principal Chung Hsiu-feng of Dacheng Arts Experimental Elementary School, Teacher Lin Hui-shan of Hengchun Elementary School, Teacher Cheng Yi-ting of Hengchun Vocational High School, Teacher Chen Yi-zhang of Chaozhou High School, Teacher Wu Yu-chieh, Teacher Huang Yi-chiao of Datong High School, Teacher Su Yi-wen of Pingtung Science and Technology Experimental Junior High School, Teacher Cheng Ya-wen of Chaozhou Junior High School, and Teacher Pan Shan-chi of National Pingtung University Affiliated Elementary School. Despite the extremely limited time available, they still agreed to co-organize the forum and share their light, warmth, strength, and beauty. I hope that in the future, I can also carry this ASC concept and listen to the stories of interdisciplinary aesthetic schools and elders throughout Taiwan.