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Accton Teamed up with the Association of Humanitarian Architecture for the Renovation of Taitung Wulu Elementary School's Campus
Wulu Elementary School and its Lidao Campus are located in the indigenous communities of Bulbul (Wulu in Mandarin) and Litu (Lidao), which are nestled in the mountains deep along the southern cross-island highway. Between them, the two campuses have only about 40 students. Due to their remote locations, teaching resources and equipment are sparse in comparison to urban schools.
In recent years, with the promotion of arts and music activities by the Accton Arts Foundation and the driving advocacy of the principal, the Association of Humanitarian Architecture has been entrusted with transforming the ceremonial stage set up under the old authoritarian regime into a Bunun "taluhan." This marks the beginning of the renovation of many campus spaces, aimed at revitalizing idle spaces and create more diverse learning areas.
"Taluhan" in the Bunun language means "meeting place," and such places are the heart of Bunun community life. In contrast, such spaces on campuses have often replaced by standardized, cold concrete structures such as ceremonial stages or halls. The goal of creating a school taluhan is to provide a space suitable for people to come together, to extract users from these originally restrictive spaces, return to them the right to define the form of their spaces, and to use Taiwanese timber to reconnect them with the memories of how the Bunun traditionally lived in these mountain forests. (Original text from the Association of Humanitarian Architecture).

