In my imagination, Taipei would be more modern and the buildings and streets would have a great difference from mainland China. But when we were walking around with Daphne this morning, I felt familiar. The buildings are actually quite vintage and full of trades of history which makes me feel like home.
When walking into the metro station
What a great surprise that they have the stamp collection in the underground station having the name and some graphics of that station which makes me really exciting. I think this small activities do help encouraging visitor to travel around Taiwan through metro and integrating creativities into the public. Personally I think this little stamp do help amplifying the trip of visitors from traveling places to places. And the stamp is actually well-designed, hopefully I can collect more during the trips.
In the morning, we went to Huashan 1914 creative park, but at that time, it was empty like a ghost town which I consider is normal, because in Guangzhou, normally the creative park is not very busy. But when we came back in the afternoon, I was surprised by the great amount of visitors in Huashan 1914 creative park. However, soon I understand why, because in the Creative park, there are so many things happening, exhibitions of science, films and photography; Christmas theme market, artists live performances and a lot of interesting merchandise shop filled with local artists design or products rich in creativity and cultures elements. The park is truly triggering people’s curiosity and tapping their creativity. Spending whole day there is definitely not enough for me to absorb everything. I should go back again If I have time in the next couple days before we leave Taipei.
Watching kids playing skateboard somehow surprised me.
In my mindset, people who play skateboard are people who are rebellious or problematic teenagers ( not a good mindset), but here I saw parents bringing their kids to learn skateboarding which has strong contrast with my mindset. They have more open-minded education methods and maybe this is the reason why Taiwanese creative industries is more advance.
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2019 Taiwan Study Tour 