Fuhe Junior High School, New Taipei City—A true culinary gem in Yonghe!
Project Name:"Yonghe's reputation for food is well-deserved!"The course content revolves around Yonghe's local cuisine, Yonghe's mascot, and SDGs. Through field visits, observation sketching, and creative practice, students are guided to use their five senses—sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch—to deeply experience and understand the local cultural connotations and aesthetic value.
This course integrates visual arts, social studies, and SDGs 11 and 12 sustainability education. Starting from students' familiar life experiences, it encourages them to step outside the classroom and engage in multi-sensory exploration. Students will use their eyes to observe the colors and plating of food, their ears to listen to the stories and cultural memories shared by the vendors, their noses to smell the aromas, their taste buds to savor traditional and innovative flavors, and their hands to touch the tableware and packaging used by the vendors. This in-depth exploration and recording of all five senses will lead to an investigation into whether these tableware and packaging align with the spirit of SDGs 12 "Responsible Consumption and Production," such as whether reusable tableware, environmentally friendly packaging materials are used, single-use waste is reduced, or bringing one's own containers is encouraged. This fosters students' reflection on environmental responsibility through design and consumption.
Students will create a bilingual (Chinese and English) Yonghe food guide map and design a representative Yonghe mascot in a creative way to showcase the local cultural charm and enhance the city's marketing. Through artistic aesthetics and interdisciplinary integration, the program will strengthen students' cultural literacy and sustainable thinking, ultimately promoting local tourism, boosting Yonghe District's prosperity and international integration, and putting into practice the educational value of connecting social action through aesthetics and the five senses.
