From 2022, the Research Center for Technology and Art ( Techart Center) has participated in Maker Faire Taipei. Maker Faire Taipei is Taiwan's largest Maker Faire. This exhibition originated from the Maker Faire in the Bay Area, California, USA, which has a history of 19 years and has been an important movement and event in the promotion of international creativity and interdisciplinary education.
Techart Center uses electricity, magnetism, light, water, air, vision, sound, mechanics, chemistry, etc., to produce STEAM interactive exploration works using interactive devices and art design techniques.
These artworks make mathematics, physics, chemistry, and other science knowledge visible and operable, guiding children to explore and learn through play and stimulating children's curiosity and creativity. In the past three years, a total of 20~30 pieces of creative artwork have been exhibited, attracting the attention and recognition of the domestic and international education sector.
In 2022, we have exhibited artworks such as “Crazy Oval,” “Smooth Skin Pat,” “Two Sides of One Body,” etc. In 2023, we have added “AR Stone Lantern Elf,” “AI Drawing Cat,” “Visual Blooming,” etc. In 2024, we are adding new artworks like “Rotational illusion,” “Interactive Chinese Idiom,” and “What's the Matter with Smith?” ..., etc. The results of the three-year exhibition have been extremely effective, with record numbers of visitors each year, indirectly demonstrating National Tsing Hua University's commitment to interdisciplinary education, actively promoting quality education, and reducing social inequality.
The Director of the Techart Center, Professor Su-Chu Hsu, also pioneered the “STEAM123” guided teaching, which firstly allows children to be Tinker for curiosity, Explorer for interdisciplinary exploration, and Maker for creative transformation, and to learn to experience the process of integrating the humanities and the arts into their learning process, and at the same time be filled with Adventure.
So far, we have trained seed teachers in 53 elementary schools in Taiwan and promoted them in many rural elementary schools. The results of the Techart Center's cross-domain research and development and promotion of “STEM with A” have been noticed and recognized by the education community at home and abroad. We will continue to actively demonstrate National Tsing Hua's philosophy of promoting “All Ages Interdisciplinary Learning.”