UNIVERSITY SUPPORT OF THE ARTS AND HERITAGE

The school is an open campus in which the Arts and Culture Center and the Red House (city-designated historic sites) are open to the public during working hours (every Monday to Friday from 9 am to 8 pm; during winter and summer vacations, Monday to Thursday from 9 am to 5 pm). The Red House, located on campus, is a Taipei municipal monument. The campus also hosts the Taipei Tech history gallery, which houses exhibits showcasing NTUT’s history through the Japanese era and more recent reformations. Both spaces are infused with cultural richness and are open for guest visits and booked guided tours. Due to the Covid-19 epidemic, there was restricted access to campuses in 2020, and the number of visitors was much reduced. However, in 2020, a total of 167 people from outside organizations applied for the guided tour service. In addition, there was a total of 4,930 individual visitors to the Red Mansion in 2020.

The university provides public access to our library, and allows 30 members of the public to enter the facility simultaneously to access the library’s services with their ID cards kept at the counter every day. Last year, there were 4,243 such visitors. We also provide guided tours to non-students, but this service was suspended last year due to COVID-19. Meanwhile, as a member of the Interlibrary Cooperation Association, we provided 338 other members with public access to our library's books and publications. Therefore, our library has been awarded first place in the Outstanding Performance in the National University of Science and Technology Interlibrary Collaborative Services for two consecutive years (2019 and 2020), and provided services in a total of 647 cases.
With over a century of history, Taipei Tech has many sites of historical significance on campus, such as the Taipei Tech Archives and The Red House. We also have an Arts and Culture Center to exhibit artworks and hold artistic activities. As an open campus, the above-mentioned sites, exhibition center, and works of art are open to the public free of charge.
The main green spaces on campus are located on either side of Zhongxiao Road, on either side of Xinsheng Road, behind the second teaching building, and next to the Civil Engineering Building, Materials and Resources Building, and Common Science Building. The stream that runs between Zhongxiao East Road and Bade Road helps beautify the campus landscape. Public spaces and green spaces are provided in the school for public recreation and use.

Taipei Tech Arts and Cultural Centre is a gathering place for those interested in the arts and culture. We hold regular exhibitions of different forms of art, including musical performances, and incorporate aesthetic values into technology so that they become part and parcel of the daily life and education of our students. Taipei Tech values the integration of the humanities and technology, and the improvement of students' leadership and organizational skills. Every month, we invite artists from different cultures to put on choir, theater, and chamber orchestra performances for our students. We also have eight music clubs. Each club holds three to four public performances every semester. In 2020, we offered more than 30 public art performances and 29 music and dance events that were open to the public.

Since its founding in 1912, our school has systematically preserved and recorded three important aspects of its cultural heritage. First, our school’s historical and cultural relics are recorded and placed on display in our special collections room. In 2020, we held a school history exhibition titled Looking Ahead by Building on the Past: Origins of NTUT’s Architecture Education. As our school was the first to teach architecture in Taiwan, the Department of Architecture, established during the Japanese colonial period, is of great historical significance. We have also restored the Red House and the historic corridor. The former was restored to its original appearance and reopened in 2017. Even as small exhibitions and guided tours continue to be organized at the Red House, it has passed the Ministry of Culture’s preliminary review of the 2019 Historical Site and Building Management and Maintenance Evaluation. The historic corridor will be developed into an arts and culture park on campus.

Furthermore, Taipei Tech is committed to preservation and cultural heritage recording and research projects at other local institutions. Twelve such projects were carried out in 2019 and 2020. Additionally, Taipei Tech assists the Ministry of Education in promoting the development of cultural and creative industries and talent cultivation in Taiwan. Taipei Tech provides assistance for start-ups such as Green Read Vision that record and/or preserve Taiwanese stories so that we will never forget our local folklore, traditions, language, and knowledge.

 Cultural and Creative Product-Service Design for Sustainability of Cross-Strait Ethnic Minorities: A Case Study of the Thao in Taiwan and Yao in Northern Guangdong is a research project that focuses on the concept of sustainability in the cultures of the Taiwan’s indigenous Thao people and mainland China’s Yao ethnic minority. A Taipei Tech research team conducted field surveys and ethnographic research to build a database of the features of their cultural artefacts. This project resulted in the building of a cultural sustainability database for specific ethnic minorities in Taiwan and northern Guangdong, and the development of a series of cultural and creative product-service designs that support the cultural sustainability of ethnic minorities. Another research project, Causative Verbs in Amis and Puyuma and their Lexicographic Treatment, has led to a better understanding of both typical and extended functions of formatives from both synchronic and diachronic perspectives. The next phase of research will be the proper implementation of remarks and instructions regarding these causative markers in pedagogical materials. It is hoped that this line of research will contribute to Formosan language lexicography.

The school also incorporated the University's Social Responsibility (USR) program into cross-school community exchanges to enhance social practice and local creative energy, and held the University x Tribal Sustainability Power event in 2020. This event focused on cooperation between university students and indigenous tribes, who worked together to promote the sustainable development of indigenous peoples.

Long-term funding has been invested in the renovation and maintenance of the historic Red House: 2017: NT$ 13,636,759, 2018: NT$ 600,000, 2019: NT$ 700,000, 2020: NT$ 720,000. In addition, in 2020, NT$ 3,500,000 was invested into renovating the music exhibition hall.

UNIVERSITY SUSTAINABLE PRACTICES

Because Taipei Tech is located in the city center, public transportation is very convenient. We encourage our students, staff, and faculty to commute to school via public transportation as a sustainable practice. The total campus population is approximately 20,000 people, but we only provide 161 vehicle parking spaces and 1201 motorcycle parking spaces. 93.2% of the campus population commutes to school on foot, by bike, or on public transportation and shuttle buses. As a target, we plan to reduce the number of parking spaces each year.

Taipei Tech is located in the city center right next to bus stops, an MRT stop, and U-bike stands. Accordingly, we encourage faculty, staff, and students to use sustainable commuting. Our student and faculty ID cards are combined with EasyCards. Students and faculty members who use their ID Cards to take public transportation receive discounts on the fare. In addition, we provide free bicycle parking spaces and electric vehicle charging stations on campus.
NTUT has formulated its Rules for Staff Working from Home to implement remote office work under special circumstances. Furthermore, in accordance with the Act of Gender Equality in Employment, faculty members may request that the school reduce their working hours by one hour each day so that they may care for their children under the age of three years.

Though Taipei Tech is located in the city center, we provide our students with very reasonable and affordable housing near the main campus. In addition, underrepresented students are  offered priority application, discounted rental rates, or free rent.

To ensure the safety of teachers, students and staff, pedestrians are given priority on all on-campus roads. According to the Article 5 of the school’s Campus Traffic Management Measures, vehicles entering the campus and parking lot must obey all signs, follow the commands of the school guards or management personnel, and drive at a speed limit of 15 kilometers/hour. To reduce the amount of driving on campus and lessen the impact on pedestrian traffic, our school has 10 parking spaces next to the Zhongxiao entrance gate and 15 temporary parking spaces between the Civil Engineering Building and Materials Building at the Xinsheng entrance gate. There are guard rooms at the school gates where police or security are stationed to control traffic entering and exiting the campus. The parking of cars, motorcycles, and other vehicles is prohibited anywhere on campus except for the designated parking areas. Newly-constructed buildings are in compliance with the government's Administrative Guidelines for Applying for Approval for Green Building Labels and Administrative Guidelines for the Review, Approval, and Use of Smart Building Label Applications.

Throughout our long history, the school has made a concerted effort to maintain the campus environment. Therefore, the university has no abandoned or contaminated land. Professors from Taipei Tech have worked with 19 central or local government bodies, including the Ministry of the Interior, the New Taipei City government, the Taipei City government, and the Keelung City government, as members of urban design/planning and land-development-use plan screening committees, providing the government with recommendations to achieve housing justice. Taipei Tech is committed to assisting local authorities in addressing planning and development issues. A total of 17 projects were implemented from 2020 to 2021.