This course centers on "Central City Perspectives: Rhythmic Practice," connecting international market observations from Mandarin textbooks, local aesthetic exploration of Taichung's Second Market, and the sound and rhythm of bilingual limericks. The course guides students to become "sensory explorers," moving beyond the limitations of traditional single-text and two-dimensional illustrations to introduce the concepts of "sensory narrative" and "cross-media translation."
Students will use visual colors (red bricks and hexagonal buildings), auditory rhythms (street vendors' calls and everyday sounds), and cultural symbols collected during their field research to conduct bilingual sound reconstruction, graphic design, and digital translation of audiovisual materials. Ultimately, as "dream practitioners" and "old city diplomats," they will present their work through diverse media (sound performances, audiovisual recordings, and digital map curation), realizing a cross-disciplinary aesthetic literacy practice "from sensory perception and aesthetic translation to local social action."