Narrating the Garden

小組成員Team Member：蔡寶瑩、林沛宇、鄧家昕、陳奕嘉、黃筱琳

English names: Gus, Casper, Mierrya, Ricky, Kaitlin

內容簡介Brief introduction of your project：

The garden in 3F of the International Building could be more informative to NCCU students, staff, and people who pass by. As students might overlook gardens like they overlook migratory plants in real life.

Therefore we made an interactive setup including a convex mirror, viral game characters, Pikmin illustrations, visual introductions of each plant and an online lucky draw related to the garden. These are what we think attracts young people, the majority group of NCCU students, nowadays.

Society is A Salad

小組成員Team Member：蔡寶瑩、林沛宇、鄧家昕、陳奕嘉、黃筱琳

English names: Gus, Casper, Mierrya, Ricky, Kaitlin

內容簡介Brief introduction of your project：

A versatile salad won't be what it is without rich, various backgrounds. The same goes for Taiwanese society. People might overlook the importance of migrants in Taiwan, minimize migrants’ contribution and further hold xenophobic attitudes against them. Our exhibition is to showcase how migrant supports Taiwan’s structure and growth through the symbolic herbs and dish

Migrant workers play an important role in Taiwanese society and its growth. For instance, the ageing population requires caregivers to support the community, and semiconductor industries need factory workers to manufacture products. The fisheries sector requires workers to drive the industry forward…etc

It is important not to overlook the contributions of migrant workers and the culture they have brought to Taiwan, which has made it a multicultural society. In the exhibition, we help visitors to create their own salad through herbs, more specifically, migrant herbs. 

What does a Herb mean to you?

小組成員Team Member：林莉莉, 陳苡亘, 張哲睿

English names: Maëva De Barros Soares

內容簡介Brief introduction of your project：

This project explores how migration influences food culture and how sensory experiences shape people's perceptions of food. Food is more than just taste, it carries memories, identities, and cultural meanings. As ingredients and culinary traditions move across borders, their meanings can change, adapt, or become disconnected from their original cultural contexts.

Through an interactive exhibition featuring touch, smell, taste, and quiz activities, participants will explore a variety of herbs from different cultural backgrounds. By engaging their senses, visitors can reflect on how personal experiences and cultural backgrounds influence the way they recognize, interpret, and accept food. Bringing together Taiwanese and international students, the project aims to promote cultural exchange and demonstrate how food can serve as a bridge between migrant and local communities.

Pandan, Southeast Asia’s Multifunctional Plant

小組成員Team Member：蕭席忠, 傅宥景

English names: Nicholas Sioputra, Owen Polim

內容簡介Brief introduction of your project：

For our final project, we wanted to look at how globalization and migration shape the food that we eat every day, using one incredibly special ingredient, Pandan.

Often called the “Southeast Asia’s Vanilla”, due to the similarity in smell, pandan is a staple across Southeast Asia, but its story is really about movement. It travelled from its origin in the Maluku Islands to become a foundational flavor in countries like Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines, Vietnam and Singapore.

We’ve designed a collection of postcards showcasing iconic dishes from different  Southeast Asian cultures, illustrating how each country uniquely adopted the leaf into their own culinary identity.

We’ve also set up an interactive blind smell test. By asking the people to guess the aroma of pandan versus vanilla and other similar scents, we want to strip away cultural biases and prove just how universally comforting and accessible this flavor really is.

This project is an exploration of how moving across borders changes food culture, and a celebration of the flavors people bring with them to keep their heritage alive.

Taste of India, Beyond Stereotypes

小組成員Team Member：李維萱、陳冠任、金持有、陳意昀

內容簡介Brief introduction of your project：

Most people form opinions about a place long before they ever set foot there, through news headlines, social media comments, or half-remembered stories. For many in Taiwan, India is no different.

With Taiwan currently discussing bringing in Indian migrant workers to address labor shortage, public debate has followed. But much of that debate is shaped by stereotypes rather than real familiarity. So we started with something simple: the smell of spices, the taste of food, and hearing the stories.

Our exhibition invites visitors to experience a side of India beyond the stereotypes. Through Indian curry and Masala Chai, a spice-smelling station, a Myth vs. Reality board, video clips of Indian migrants sharing their lives in Taiwan, and a reflection board where visitors could leave their thoughts on. We try to introduce India not as a policy issue, but as a place with its own stories. 

We are curious whether a small, sensory encounter with another culture might open up something that statistics and debates can't, and that curiosity is where this project begins.

Exploring the wisdom of Amis Tribe

小組成員Team Member：Jim陳俊穎, Nguyen Ha Thuy Duong, Arbi Ramadhan, Vu Duc Thuan

內容簡介Brief introduction of your project：As derived from our 3-day, 2-night Hualien field trip, this poster provides an overview of the Amis Tribe’s indigenous wisdom. Our research focuses on two primary aspects which are  Ami's unique ecological practices (Palakawa fishing structure) and second the preservation of ancestral knowledge through hands-on community engagement (traditional bark and leaf craftsmanship, organic farming, and regional culinary heritage). In addition, the poster highlights iconic Amis culinary traditions, including hot-stone fish soup enjoyed by the mountain stream and wild vegetables.

5/3~5/5 Hualien & Guangfu: Community Resilience and International Exchange Field Visit

小組成員Team Member：Guangfu/Hualien Trip Led by Prof. Gina Tsai, posters by Casper Lin

內容簡介Brief introduction of your project：This semester’s Sustainable Development & Regional Revitalization course is surrounding the 3-day field visit in Guangfu and the larger Hualien county. A total of 45 students consisting of more than 12 nationalities got to visit this region, treating it as a "living classroom for global resilience" following recent natural disasters.

Throughout the immersive journey, students explored the intersection of post-disaster recovery, indigenous ecology, and sustainable tourism. At the Bangcha Farm and the Matai'an community, they experienced the Amis people’s traditional ecological wisdom firsthand— learning about climate resilient farming, practicing biodiversity-based forest survival, and enjoying a sustainable "source-to-table" riverbed dining experience. 

The students also engaged in forest therapy at Danongdafu forest park, exchanged international organic farming case studies with experts at the Hualien District Agricultural Research and Extension Station(HDARES), and interacted with local children at Hua Ren Elementary School. To re-imagine Hualien's future, they also evaluated digital nomading frameworks at the local Cloud Base.

Ultimately, students are synthesizing these diverse cross-cultural insights and field observations. They share these results not only through a curated exhibition but with self-made videos to share the wisdom learned in Hualien with a wider global audience.