TY - CPAPER
KW - Bridges
KW - Community IS
KW - Creative design
KW - Cultural preservation
KW - Digital fabrication
KW - Engaging students
KW - Experience and educations
KW - Fabrication
KW - Historic preservation
KW - Intangible cultural heritage
KW - Intangible cultural heritages
KW - Local community
KW - Students
KW - Workshop
KW - Younger generations
KW - Creative design
KW - Cultural preservation
KW - Workshop
AU - Z. Lu
AU - P. Tan
AU - Y. Ji
AU - X. Ma
AB - Engaging local communities is essential to safeguarding intangible cultural heritage (ICH). To better encourage the participation of local communities, especially younger generations, e.g., students, ICH experience and education workshops are widely adopted by academia, museums, governments, and non-profit organizations. The expected outcomes of these workshops, such as archives, documents, and even creative design solutions, can benefit the promotion and preservation of ICH. However, because of the steep learning curve of using traditional ICH tools and the lack of interactions between students and ICH practitioners, many ICH workshops currently fail to engage students in learning ICH-related knowledge, developing empathy with ICH, or designing novel artifacts with ICH elements. To bridge this gap, we designed a workshop, which integrated ICH in China, digital fabrication, creative technology, and making, to engage Chinese students with ICH and creative design. We conducted empirical studies to collect feedback from students (N = 30) and ICH professionals (N=6). The application of digital fabrication tools successfully piqued students  interest in ICH and enabled them to create interactive ICH artifacts through quick prototyping. However, the ICH professionals pointed out several issues of using digital fabrication, especially regarding tacit knowledge, use of traditional tools, and cultural authenticity. We discuss the importance of these factors in students  acquisition of ICH knowledge and ICH-oriented design, and provide implications for future ICH design workshops.
C2 - DIS - Proc. ACM Conf. Des. Interact. Syst. Conf.: Digit. Wellbeing
DO - 10.1145/3532106.3533525
N1 - Journal Abbreviation: DIS - Proc. ACM Conf. Des. Interact. Syst. Conf.: Digit. Wellbeing
N2 - Engaging local communities is essential to safeguarding intangible cultural heritage (ICH). To better encourage the participation of local communities, especially younger generations, e.g., students, ICH experience and education workshops are widely adopted by academia, museums, governments, and non-profit organizations. The expected outcomes of these workshops, such as archives, documents, and even creative design solutions, can benefit the promotion and preservation of ICH. However, because of the steep learning curve of using traditional ICH tools and the lack of interactions between students and ICH practitioners, many ICH workshops currently fail to engage students in learning ICH-related knowledge, developing empathy with ICH, or designing novel artifacts with ICH elements. To bridge this gap, we designed a workshop, which integrated ICH in China, digital fabrication, creative technology, and making, to engage Chinese students with ICH and creative design. We conducted empirical studies to collect feedback from students (N = 30) and ICH professionals (N=6). The application of digital fabrication tools successfully piqued students  interest in ICH and enabled them to create interactive ICH artifacts through quick prototyping. However, the ICH professionals pointed out several issues of using digital fabrication, especially regarding tacit knowledge, use of traditional tools, and cultural authenticity. We discuss the importance of these factors in students  acquisition of ICH knowledge and ICH-oriented design, and provide implications for future ICH design workshops.
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
SN - 9781450393584 (ISBN)
SP - 1071
EP - 1084
TI - The Crafts+Fabrication Workshop: Engaging Students with Intangible Cultural Heritage-Oriented Creative Design
UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85133583654&doi=10.1145%2f3532106.3533525&partnerID=40&md5=25ea698472a3cebc17f2e538afef68cb
ER -