新作坊 Humanity Innovation and Social Practice

Abstract

This article attempts to discuss how questions such as the renaissance of the old downtown possible? In addition to promoting population growth and local industrial revitalization, are there alternatives to community building of Taichung city? Based on the “Humanity Innovation and Social Practice” project from Tunghai University, involving governmental agencies, NGO groups, and local residents, we gradually explored and developed a socially innovative action plan: “play as innovation,” in response to the current three major issues of the old downtown from our thick descriptions: the performance of subjective life (role play), the activation of objective space (dis-play), and the reconstruction of community solidarity (game play).