Old Chairs, New Value 舊椅子、新價值
One of our most important themes this semester was “creating new value from used materials”, and there was no better place to start than from our own possessions, including those from inside the classroom! For those of you who have been following the adventures of Junior High@ Da'an, you know that we previously designed, built, and decorated our own chairs which we used for a whole school year.
After admirably serving their purposes for a full year, they began to see some wear and tear, so we created new value in the classroom using our old chairs.
This semester, we reused the materials to again design and build needed fixtures in our classroom, including an audio equipment cabinet, a large cleaning equipment double rack, a recycling material sorting unit, and a food waste disposal stand. We've been using our self-made upcycled furniture for a semester now, and are quite proud of our own improvements in understanding and following the design process.
本學期重要的主題之一為 「利用舊材料創造新價值」，而最佳著手點莫過於教室裏學生自身會使用的物品。對於長期觀察國中部@大安的朋友們，你們一定知道上學年我們的學生設計、製造、上漆及裝飾了自己的上課座椅。
這些椅子盡職地撐完一整個學年，終於於本學期「功成身退」了。
學生們於是將它們拆解後作為原材料創造出了新的價值，製作出教室内所需的新家具:音響及錄音設備收納櫃、打掃器具收納架，資源回收分類架和廚餘收集架。這些新製作的家具已順利地使用將近一個學期，對於學生而言，他們自己在運用設計流程上的進步令他們感到非常自豪。