Long-form essays from the studio.
來自工作室的長文。
Research notes, studio journal entries, and the longer essays that take a few months to finish. Updated when something is worth writing.
Bringing the Story Back to the Mountains: Telling a Rukai Story in Rukai
A story rooted in Rukai knowledge of the mountain forest returned to the community after many conversations, revisions, and two classroom trials, told at last in Rukai and Chinese.
Making the Forest Visible: A Second Classroom Experiment
In my second classroom trial, folded leaves, fruit, and animals made forest restoration tangible, while a rainstorm outside helped children connect the story with the world they already knew.
How a Story About Forest Restoration Entered a Real Classroom
Behind Narratelica's first sustainability picture book: how a forest restoration story from southern Taiwan took shape with guidance on Rukai language and culture, then entered a primary classroom.
What we choose to carry forward: reflections from SEALS 35
Returning to Asia for SEALS 35 in Singapore: why linguistic and cultural continuity belong in the sustainability conversation, and how documented knowledge can travel from archives to the next generation.
What are the CARE Principles? Starting from the afternoon that silenced me
In the last essay I hinted that one talk shook my conviction. This is the rest. When 'open' meets the language and cultural data of Indigenous communities, we need a parallel framework: CARE Principles.
What is Open Science? A sentence you'd want to verify, as a way in
Starting from a sentence you might want to verify yourself: a primer on what Open Science is, where it came from, and where it stands. For non-researchers: no master's or PhD required to reach the data.