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Sociology and Anthropology Vol. 4(4), pp. 285 - 293
DOI: 10.13189/sa.2016.040412
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Participatory Design among College Youths and Rural Areas

Tu, Hui ^*
Department of Cultural and Creative Industries, HungKuang University, Taiwan

ABSTRACT

Following the tendency of urbanization and commercial development, people migrate to urban areas to seek for better opportunities that rural areas lose the vast majority of young population and only elders remain. These villages suffer serious recessions continually and lack of inputs from public resources. Therefore the authorities devote new programs to improving rural regenerations. Apart from the rural regeneration plan 2011, a rural migratory plan of college youths 'Touch Rural Village – How Touching' has been activated at the same time. Five sophomores from Department of Cultural and Creative Industries, HungKuang University enrolled the contest of 'Touch Rural Village – How Touching' held by Soil and Water Conservation Bureau in 2014. The classic community development procedure was not applied by these students, but a new vision from non-spatial training background was adopted to determine a new development axis and target thus to propel people and surrounding within the village. This report illustrates the targets, process and results of 'Touch Rural Village – How Touching'. Hopefully the observations and conversations from this differential procedure provide innovative concepts that a future integrative application would contribute to a premised conversation in terms of creative design, solutions and action strategies.

KEYWORDS
Rural Regeneration, "Touch Rural Village – How Touching", Community Participation, Creative Action

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(a). IEEE Format:
[1] Tu, Hui , "Participatory Design among College Youths and Rural Areas," Sociology and Anthropology, Vol. 4, No. 4, pp. 285 - 293, 2016. DOI: 10.13189/sa.2016.040412.

(b). APA Format:
Tu, Hui (2016). Participatory Design among College Youths and Rural Areas. Sociology and Anthropology, 4(4), 285 - 293. DOI: 10.13189/sa.2016.040412.