Project url: City Beats (English) Project url: City Beats (Chinese) Backup url: City Beats Category: Community groups and special populations Date of the finished website: February 2014 School: Taipei Fuhsing Private School Residency: Da-An District Teacher: I Ping Lin Group Members: HUI – YU, HUANG (Leader) YUN-CHEN, KU (Leader) KUO-TSAN, HSU HSI, CHEN HSI – CHING, TSAO SHIN-FU, CHEN Michelle Ma Range of Student age: 15-16 years old Project Email: innovia.creativity@gmail.com

(image drawn by staff)

Project Description: 

How many people really care about Taipei, this bustling city? How many people truly love and hope for the best of Taipei? Taipei has many unique features to be discovered and preserved from globalization. City Yeast is devoted to help urban residents discover the beauty of Taipei and cultivate their feelings toward the city, by attracting the residents’ attention and curiosity through creativity to develop city features that all residents are proud of. We hope that our research on City Yeast, and simulation of the action plans of City Yeast, we can show everyone the unique feature of Taipei. Our joint efforts will make Taipei a better place.

In order to explore and introduce City Yeast, this Cyberfair project will be presented in 5 sections: Introduction of City Yeast, Activities (including all the activities of City Yeast), Overseas (foreigners participating in City Yeast), Broadcast (interviews with relevant persons, questionnaire survey) and School Yeasts. What's unique about City Yeast is their creative, interesting, and meaningful projects. In order to experience what they've been through, we implemented our own creative and meaningful activities on campus.

 

 

(photo taken from www.cityyeast.com)

Description of Our Community：

　As the capital of Taiwan, Taipei City has heavy traffic, high buildings, and prosperity. This is the impression most people hold towards Taipei. However, as Taipei citizens, we are aware that Taipei still has room for improvement. The Balcony Project allows us to realize the serious consequences from people’s selfishness in maintaining the cleanliness of the environment and the resulting messy appearance of the city. The "Meet Taipei: Design" project shows the deficiencies of Taipei despite its good living quality. Active in Taipei, City Yeast brought gradual changes to Taipei through culture and design. The city we live in is full of prosperity and diversity, and will continuously improve through City Yeast.

(Photo taken from：http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9a/Taipei_Rushhour_birdseye.JPG)

Project plan summary：

　In order to explore and introduce City Yeast, this Cyberfair project will be presented in 5 sections: Introduction of City Yeast, Activities (including all the activities of City Yeast), Overseas (foreigners participating in City Yeast), Broadcast (interviews with relevant persons, questionnaire survey) and School Yeasts. What's unique about City Yeast is their creative, interesting, and meaningful projects. To experience what they've been through, we implemented our own creative and meaningful activities on campus.

Our Computer and Internet Access ：

　Internet in school: The Internet speed at school is 30MB internet transmission, and the on-campus Internet includes both wire and wireless network. All classrooms have computers. It is convenient to conduct discussions, data search, and print out documents in school.

　Internet at home: every team member has a computer at home, and they can conduct research online at home.

Problems We Had To Overcome：

　The main obstacle is the difficulty to coordinate our time. There are so many activities in senior high school. We need to prepare for cheerleading right after the summer vacation, and the subsequent high school musical. Those are exhausting activities.

　Moreover, our team members are from three classes and we have different class schedules and homework, which made our contact very time-consuming. Nevertheless, we remind each other of meetings. Even though we may miss meetings due to other activities, we bring our tasks back home to complete. Important notes during meetings are passed on to those who missed them. We have tried our best to minimize the impact of our busy high school life on the project progress

(photo taken on ：2013/09/30)

Our Project Sound Bite ：

　All of our team members are very talented, and we are confident to make a better project than others. On the other hand, as team members have different traits, there are often disagreements, and we could not be united. Moreover, some team members may not be able to complete assigned tasks on time due to their occupied schedule.

　In this Cyberfair project we learned many things, such as making webpages, soliciting responses from other people regarding our ideas, researching on data, finding interview subjects, and discovering strong local awareness. From this research theme, we see our city from a brand new perspective, and explore our place of residence from dimensions that we never thought of before.

　This Cyberfair project took a long time. We often carry out interviews after school or even on weekends. Yet, we don't regret it, for we got this rare opportunity to explore the city, our surroundings, and even ourselves from a new angle

(photo taken on ：2013/04/15)

Integrating with curriculum：

 

(1) Language

    Organizing, proofreading and writing website text, feedbacks, book reports

(2) Science

    Manipulating technological facilities

    Designing the website

    Programming

(3) Mathematics

    Statistical and logical analysis

    Organizing place, time and space

(4) Aesthetics

    Designing logo and website(choosing colors, images, etc.)

    Photographing

(5) Physical education

    Managing time

    Conditioning physical and mental health

(6) Social science

    Using resources from the society (people, food, experience, etc.)

    Organizing and gathering information for interviews

    Local culture investigation

(7) Integrated

    Organizing for outdoor activities

    Group job separation

    Interviewing and investigation

    Designing questionnaires

 

The use of information technology ：

Hardware:

1. Computers and laptops: Searching and organizing information, producing the website
2. Digital recording pens and cameras: Recording information during interviews and working journals, geographical investigation
3. Electronic white board: group discussion
4. Painter: Creating images
5. 30MB Internet Network: Connecting to the Internet (provided by school)
6. Portable disk: backing up information

Software:

1. Photoimpact: editing images and photos
2. Adobe Flash CS4 Professional:Creating website animations
3. Adobe Dreamweaver: Making website pages
4. FileZilla: Uploading website onto the net
5. X-Mind: Creating graphic organizers and job separation charts
6. ImageResizer: Resizing pictures
7. Fuhsing online academy: Platform for team members to communicate and exchange information
8. Corel Painter12 : Creating website background and images
9. Microsoft PowerPoint 2010: Creating website images
10. Microsoft Word 2010: Creating website information
11. Microsoft Excel 2010: Creating group separation chart and organizing information
12. E-mail: International interview
13. Image cutter: Editing images from screenshot
14. iMovie : Producing video “small pleasures

What has been the impact of your project on your community ：

　The theme of this project is City Yeast, which is an organization that devotes to promote unique features of the city. We have gathered information about City Yeast from many angles, through which we see the city from a new perspective. The Balcony Project reveals the lack of community awareness and selfishness of the city residents. By reading the books published by City Yeast, we realize that Taipei lacks beauty in many areas. The concept of “non- globalization“ advocated by City Yeast needs improvement, which can be seen from gradual traditional culture loss and globalization trends on the streets. We encountered many difficulties when proposing activities on campus. Practicing creativity and design in real life requires efforts by many people.

(image drawn by staff)

Intellectual Property Rights ：

　All data used on the webpage including the photos and information of the interviewees, have been authorized by the copyright owners prior to use. (The authorization letters from two foreign designers Ilteris Ilbasan and Gaston Caba are attached here). The sources of data, including text and pictures from newspapers, magazines, and websites, are also noted. We can ensure that we have not violated any copyrights.

 

　　

　　

(phot taken on：e-mail )

 

In what ways did you act as "ambassadors" and spokespersons for your Cyberfair project both on-line and in person? ：

1. We interviewed Ms.Chou, Ms. Ye, Mr. Wang, Mr. Tang, Mr. Ilteris Ilbasan, Mr. Gaston Caba and Ms. Seiko Mastumura, participants of City Yeast. We told them our goals to improve the city, exchanging creative design ideas from their experience in City Yeast.

2. We distributed questionnaires on streets to let more people know about City Yeast, conveying our intention of improving the environment around us. We hope that we can have responses from more people.

3. We participated in City Yeast activities "Food Zero Waste" and "Super City Forum" in order to experience what City Yeast intends to convey to the public, and have further contact with City Yeast and its participants.

4. We held various activities related to creativity and design through our club, including “Metamorphosis”, “My October”, and “New Art”. We hope that the change of creativity and design can start from us.

5. We visited the City Yeast public base on Treasure Hill Artist Village in order to know more about activities and impact of City Yeast on the public.

(image drawn by staff and photo taken on 2013/06/13)

 

Contribution to the local community ：

　Our project theme is to learn about the concepts of City Yeast, and explore the possibilities of encouraging more people to engage in the activities, and thus, make differences and highlight the features of the city. We follow the concepts of “non-globalization” and “viscuous city”, adhering to concepts of creativity and design to make Taipei a unique, creative place

 

Discoveries, Lessons and Surprises：

　Webpage making takes a very long time. We did not do our best on completing the tasks or being efficient. We held many meetings, and assigned tasks to everyone. However, problems kept emerging when the deadline comes near. We kept reminding each other about time management and the importance of work planning. Time management and planning are the biggest lessons we learnt.

(photo taken on ：2013/09/30)

 

Websites:

http://www.cityyeast.com/

City yeast facebook page

http://www.cityyeast.com/passion_show.php?newstype_id2=18&news_id=370

http://www.dt.ntust.edu.tw/content/%E5%94%90%E7%8E%84%E8%BC%9D-%E5%8A%A9%E7%90%86%E6%95%99%E6%8E%88

http://www.open-do.org/

http://www.gastoncaba.com.ar/

http://www.cityyeast.com/passion_show.php?newstype_id2=83&news_id=964

Innovia’s facebook fan page

Books:

City Yeast 2 Balcony project/Agua

http://www.books.com.tw/products/N000036663

City Yeast . Love of Taiwan/Agua

City Yeast 3. Love of Taiwan/Agua

http://www.aguadesign.com/productnews.php?Page=15&pnews_id=83

Contributors:

• We interviewed Ms.Chou, Ms. Ye, Mr. Wang, Mr. Tang, Mr. Ilteris Ilbasan, Mr. Gaston Caba and Ms. Seiko Mastumura, participants of City Yeast. We told them our goals to improve the city, exchanging creative design ideas from their experience in City Yeast.

• We distributed questionnaires on streets to let more people know about City Yeast, conveying our intention of improving the environment around us. We hope that we can have responses from more people.

• We participated in City Yeast activities "Food Zero Waste" and "Super City Forum" in order to experience what City Yeast intends to convey to the public, and have further contact with City Yeast and its participants.

• We held various activities related to creativity and design through our club, including “Metamorphosis”, “My October”, and “New Art”. We hope that the change of creativity and design can start from us.

• We visited the City Yeast public base on Treasure Hill Artist Village in order to know more about activities and impact of City Yeast on the public.