2016 A History Unraveled： Bo-Pi Liao in Taiwan

　Project Overview

1. Category：Local features and specialties

2. Description of Our Community：

Located today in Lane 173 of Kangding Road, the historic district of Bo-Pi Liao in Monga is a street developed during the Qing period. Standing on the south side of Lao-Song Elementary School in Wanhau District, Taipei City, extending on the east to Kwenming Street, south to Guanzhou Street and west to Kangding Road, it is the only Qing-styled street that still exists in Taipei today. The street was formed approximately in 1850, during the Qing period, and has been kept intact because the hundreds-meter long street was reserved for Lao-Song Elementary School’ use during the Japanese Rule Era, resulting in the prohibition of any further new buildings and reconstruction. The Education Department of Taipei City Government established a Bo-Pi Liao conservation and reutilization operating team in August of 2003, named "Heritage and Culture Education Center of Taipei City (HCEC)." It hopes to turn Bo-Pi Liao into an educational ground of local cultures for middle and elementary school students by recreating historic scenes and organizing educational activities, as well as to pass on the local culture by introducing the historical development, local life styles and unique industries in Bo-Pi Liao.

3. Summary of Our Project：

With the rise of humanitarian awareness, together with the concepts of “conservation of cultural assets,” “reutilization of space” and “the meaning of conservation and reutilization,” people start to pay more attention to environmental protection and conservation. From governments’ reutilization of discarded spaces resulting from previous industries, to documentation of the conservation of historic districts in developed urban areas, these actions have shown the importance people place on the conservation of cultural assets. The protection of historic buildings indicates a connection between different parts of a culture system, such as the society and ethnic features, as well as emphasizes people’s respect for cultural heritages in a city. The historic district of Bo-Pi Liao, which contains abundant historical memories, and whose architectural space has witnessed the development of the streets in Monga, documenting details of people’s everyday life, is like a treasury that describes the ups and downs of the city.

4. Our Computer and Internet Access：

Most of the time, our team worked with the computers and internet connection in the computer room of our school, collecting and organizing the materials needed for our website. Other than that, we made use of the ADSL, TV network and local network at home. We also depended on some communication software like LINE and Facebook to discuss with each other and upload photos. With the assistance of these communication technologies, we were able to successfully distribute tasks and have discussions.

Device	Tool	Description
Computer Hardware	Personal Computer (PC)	To design the website, collect and organize the materials
	Scanner	To process the hand-drawn images
	Copy machine	To make copies of paper materials and the questionnaire
	Digital camera, smartphone	To make photos and videos
	ADSL	Internet connection
Computer Software	Dream weaver cs6	To design and manage the website
	Macromedia Flash cs6	To create animation clips
	Microsoft Word 2010	To edit the website’s content and design the structure
	Microsoft Excel 2010	To create pie charts
	PhotoImpactx3	To create images needed for the website
	File hosting service (FileZilla)	To upload our work
	LINE、FaceBook	Communication
General Devices	USB	To save data
General Devices	Cellphone / Smartphone	To contact each other
Others	The computer room	Provided by the school

5. Problems We Had To Overcome：

Challenges	Description	Solution
Fieldwork	We couldn’t work out our schedule and include everyone for the field trip and discussions on the weekend. How could we involve the people who weren’t there?	We gave the materials we collected to the team members who were not able to join the field trip to organize and restructure. By doing so, we not only improved our efficiency but also involved the team members who missed the trip.
Software operation	We were not very skilled at designing a website. Whether it’s the layout, the format or the typesetting of the website, what we managed to create were rarely what we hoped for. Faced with such a difficulty, how did we achieve the best result of our website?	We first created a layout, and then selected a preferred color for all the headlines. After we decided the format of the menu, the homepage and the footer, we showed our supervisor what we created, and revised according the advices given to us, deleting the parts that were not so good and keeping the good parts in order to present a perfect website.
規劃方面 Planning	When we first started the website, we had absolutely no idea how and where to start. What is our structure? What is a menu? How should we design the header and footer? And how should we plan the project?	We consulted our supervisor every time when we had a question, no matter how small the question was. Then we discussed with each other, accumulated our experiences and skills, and finally were able to complete the project.
實際訪談 Interview	As we didn’t have many experiences with interviews, we asked many similar questions during the interviews and the questions were not in-depth enough.	We should have discussed with each other more often, and searched for necessary information and relevant books. Once we came up with the questions, we should have asked our supervisor to review them and give us some suggestions, so we could revise the inappropriate questions.
團隊合作 Teamwork	Some team members were not able to finish the part they were responsible for, which delayed the entire project causing trouble for the design of the website.	Each member should focus on their own part first and the ones who complete their tasks could offer help to those who haven’t, because some tasks might be more difficult. Team members should help each other and remind each other, so that the project could be completed successfully.