The Smart Living Summer School Initiative was launched through the work of the Talent Cultivation Program for Smart Living Industry, sponsored by the Ministry of Education, Taiwan (R.O.C.). The International Forum on Smart Living Summer School Initiatives in Asia, held in Taipei, Taiwan on January 14th, 2011 aimed to promote innovation in smart living by bringing together a number of leading international researchers and scholars who were working on the themes of smart living education, smart living technology, living lab methodology, interdisciplinary research and projects, and international collaboration in the realm of smart living. A forum enabled local scholars to share different methodologies and course schemes of smart living, and to analyze the capability and potential for Taiwan to establish and host the Asian Smart Living Summer School. A steering committee was subsequently established to release the strategic framework to foster the initiative of the first Asian Smart Living Summer School in Taiwan.
The first Asian Smart Living Summer School was held in 2011 from November 30th through December 4th in Taipei. This Summer School targeted masters-level postgraduates who intended to enhance their cross-cultural experiences and smart living innovation. This Summer School served as a leading showcase and a major platform for Smart Living education. Throughout the duration of the program, the existing experiences and innovations produced outside the country were collected and diffused throughout Taiwan, as well as adapted for local use.
2012 Asian Smart Living International School
Purpose
The 2011 Asian Smart Living Summer School successfully verified the potential of the new and interdisciplinary education method of active learning. In order to continue expanding and enriching the innovative prototypes of the smart living curriculum, the Talent Cultivation Program for Smart Living Industry established the 2012 Asian Smart Living International School.
The 2012 Asian Smart Living International School invites domestic and foreign educators and professionals of various backgrounds to plan and design the curriculum. Invitees are expected to focus on international issues of smart living to promote and enhance the development of the field of smart living in Taiwan.
The aims of the 2012 Asian Smart Living International School include:
| • | Engaging domestic educators and professionals with various expertise and experience in a community of interdisciplinary cooperation in order to deliver innovative and refined curricula for smart living. |
| • | Importing international and cross-cultural perspectives to co-create multidimensional and human-centered proposals for the problems observed in daily life. |
| • | Implementing and adapting newly invented teaching aids (smart toolkits or modules) to allow participants to convert their proposals into more specific and complete products or services in a shorter time. |
| • | Concentrating on one single study site to allow participants to learn more comprehensive information about that area and contribute with more constructive ideas and practical proposals. |
| • | Involving the participation of local communities and social enterprises to create a resourceful living lab environment to benefit the whole area and thus to localize the concept of smart living. |
Date
The 2012 Asian Smart Living International School will be held from October 10th through the 14th, 2012. Participants are required to attend all sessions.
Organizer
•Program Office of Talent Cultivation Program for Smart Living Industry
Co-organizer
•Baimi Clogs Village
•Greater Erjie Community
•Industrial Technology Research Institute
•Jenju Village Community
•Lanyang Museum
Sponsor
•Ministry of Education, Taiwan (R.O.C.)
