Title || Before Creating an Exhibition: A Practice of Seeing, Understanding, and Acting
Speaker || Hsin-Yi Hu (Alumna, Graduate Institute of Arts and Humanities Education; Founder, Averaging Production; Curator) Host/Moderator || Prof. Tai-Rong Wu (Director, Graduate Institute of Arts and Humanities Education) Time || Dec 08, 2025 (Mon) 12:30–13:30 Venue || Cultural Resource Library (4F, Research Building, Taipei National University of the Arts) Capacity || 30 participants (first-come, first-served) Registration Period || Now–Dec 05, 2025 23:59 Registration Link || The forum reminder email will be sent no later than 1 day before the event. Please check your inbox.
The 5th Brown Bag forum of TNUA College of Cultural Heritage (114-1 Spring Semester) will take place on Dec 08 (Mon) 12:30–13:30 at the Research Building 4F Cultural Resource Library.
This session features curator Hsin-Yi Hu, moderated by Director Tai-Rong Wu from the Graduate Institute of Arts and Humanities Education.
Before exhibitions are treated as “final results,” we often overlook the core abilities activated when audiences enter a gallery—seeing, understanding, and acting. These are not simply extensions of museum education, but the foundation of contemporary exhibition literacy.
Using 14 workshops held this past summer at the National Children’s Future Museum as a case study, this talk shares how we re-examined exhibitions through children’s perspectives, treating exhibitions as a public language that can be learned, decoded, and recreated.
In the “Oh? There’s a New ____ Here!” workshop series, children became active question-askers and spatial storytellers, exploring methods such as interviews, object sorting, role play, narrative building, and curatorial exercises. Their processes remind us that exhibition literacy is not about teaching answers, but learning how to ask questions, form personal paths of understanding, and take meaningful action.
Through practical experience, we will revisit the educational potential of exhibitions—and practice together what comes before creation itself.
Join us to rethink exhibitions as learning spaces. You are warmly welcome to attend!!!
