Sustainable Development Goals
Abstract/Objectives
The ability of exploring the city and area surrounding the living circle is important. With the profession of graduate department, the training of field exploring could lead students to understand and to observe the culture and living style of the city. Then, students could connect their knowledge to the urban area, building their own perspective of the city. The first part of this course focuses on system perspective, exploring ability, questioning skill, leading students to connect Service-Dominant Logic to their domain knowledge. Students would use the ORID focus conversation method to analyze the field data, which including objective, reflective, interpretive, and decisional phases, for knowing the context behind social issues comprehensively. The second part of this course focuses on creating the problem awareness and context structure in the field. According to the issue cared by individual, students will find the connection between their profession, interests, and the field, then creating their learning plans.
Results/Contributions

This course leaded students to the field of old downtown area of Hsinchu City, understanding the “City Lens” and the “Khuimng Studio,” which founded by NTHU alumni. The City Lens locates in Chan-An St., which publish the local magazine, “The Meatball Soup,” and promoting local culture of Hsinchu City by events, products, and design. The Khuimng Studio located in Dongmen Market, which collaborated with Hsinchu City Government to founded the Dongmen Youth Hub, revitalizing the declined market by promoting youth entrepreneurship and social innovation.

Students could understand the issues in the old city downtown area during the classes, and defining problem awareness; learning the focus conversation method with ORID phases to analyze the field data; learning the systematic perspective of service science to analyze the network structure in the field; and propose their individual learning plan to response the real issues in the field.

Keywords
Exploring LocalityFieldworkFocus ConversationPracticingHsinchu City
Contact Information
陳泓維
hungwei.chen@iss.nthu.edu.tw