Young people visit cultural construction sites to join the "I Have a Brick" observation and hands-on workshop
Beginning in 2003, Hantec has planted seeds of friendly mutual aid through collaborative house building in Tannan, Nantou, in the 921 earthquake disaster area; in Belarus, in the Chernobyl nuclear disaster resettlement area; in Aceh, Indonesia, in the South Asia tsunami disaster area; in Namaxia, Kaohsiung; on Zhongshan Old Street in Daxi; and in Penghu, among other places. In the sweat of labor, energy saving, secure living and comfort have also sunk deep into bodily memory. All along, Hantec has used "building a house" as a way of communication, seeking opportunities for dialogue and renewal between traditional crafts and modern society; devoting itself to achieving healthy and comfortable green energy buildings in the preservation of cultural assets; and, through collaborative house building, using hands-on practice to carry out civic energy education and to practice the cultural work of dialogue between East and West and exchange between old and new.
In the summer of 2015, with funding from the Haoran Foundation—Alternative Globalization Program, six young people from Hantec walked into Germany's cultural building site—we hope that, with appropriate knowledge and skills, proceeding step by step in the correct way, on old houses, it is possible to practice energy saving, comfort, quietness, health and beauty.
This is a "observation and hands-on practice" workshop. In addition to sharing the composition of Germany's cultural building site and the attitude of "finding a way to solve problems," participants can also understand through hands-on practice: how to make the four hundred wooden pegs for building a house, and how natural building materials can make construction a social process that can be participated in.
Taking Yang Kui's essay "I Have a Brick" as the theme of the workshop, this is a salute to practicing ideas through positive action, and also an encouragement to ourselves. Casting a brick to attract jade, casting a brick also to attract bricks. Because with only one brick, you cannot build a church. We hope that the sharing of the cultural building site can inspire more concrete practice.
[Event time] November 14, 2015 (Sat) 13:30-18:00 – November 15 (Sun) 09:00-17:30
[Registration fee] 1,500 yuan (accommodation not included, lunch self-arranged)
[Event venue] Sun House (2F, No. 65, Qingnian Road, Wanhua District, Taipei, China, Sun Library and Energy-Saving Exhibition Hall)
[Registration period] From now until November 6; if the quota fills up, registration will close early.
[Registration method]
1. Please fill out the registration form online.
2. After registration, your place will be reserved for three days; payment must be completed within three days.
3. Please enter the last five digits of the remittance account in the registration form and remit payment within three days of registration.
4. Once the remittance is successful, we will notify you by email.
● Remittance information
Bank transfer Account name: Taiwan Hantec Culture Association
Bank: Shanghai Commercial and Savings Bank, Zhongxiao Branch (branch code 011)
Account number: 20102000030220
[Itinerary]
● 11/14 (Sat)
12:45-13:15 Check-in
13:15-13:30 Opening
13:30-15:30 The 13 Lessons of Collaborative House Building Speaker: Wei Renzheng
15:30-16:00 Exchange and afternoon tea
16:00-17:00 The Historic Preservation Officer and My 9+1 Stories — New/Old Memories in the Cultural Building Site
Speaker: Yu Yanqi
17:00-18:00 Very Romantic — A Vocational Perspective on Timber Internships in Germany Speaker: Lin Peixin
● 11/15 (Sun)
09:00-10:30 The Social Meaning of Natural Materials — Several Cases Speaker: Martin Krampfer
10:30-11:00 Exchange time
11:00-12:00 The Journey of Natural Colors in Historic Buildings — Old Recipes in the Cultural Building Site Speaker: You Yating
12:00-13:30 Lunch
13:30-14:30 Field Report from the Cultural Building Site — Toward the Practical Path of the New Timber Craftsman Speaker: Sun Yingxiang
14:30-15:30 Seeing the Design Credits in the Cultural Building Site Through the Craftsman's Eyes Speaker: Zhang Qiongwen
15:30-16:00 Exchange and afternoon tea
16:00-17:30 Cultural Creativity with Natural Materials (hands-on practice) Leader: Martin Krampfer
For speaker introduction details, please see: http://goo.gl/88Txgu