Maker Faire Bay Area 2024
Echoes of Melody: Tracing Time and Capturing Family Stories in Sound and Light
Home: Taiwan, Taiwan
Through cross-generational dialogue, we learn from family members, elders, and neighbors, and bring the historical memories of our hometown’s customs, cultural relics, historical sites, legends, and life wisdom, like the water of Wansheng Creek, to life. It becomes a source of nourishment for life. We integrate handicrafts to create family stories into music boxes and story lamps, and collaborate on the production of wooden boats and sustainable dining tables. We express the historical memories of our hometown and the concept of sustainable progress through our own unique creations, becoming courageous and challenging new era makers. Recount family memories and accumulate energy to move towards a sustainable hometown.
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Maker
WanFu Elementary School
"Wanfu Makers with Competitive Advantage" is a vision developed by Wanfu Elementary since 2016, focusing on three themes: "Quality Living," "Cultural Roots," and "Global Perspective."Under "Quality Living," we teach students self-reliance through the "Life Made Simple" program, focusing on essential life skills, and cultivate a love for learning through the "Deep Rooted Reading" initiative.For "Cultural Roots," we emphasize local identity through the "Dragon Culture" program, introducing traditional crafts, and build self-confidence through the "Arts and Humanities" e-passport certification.
https://www.wfps.tp.edu.tw/What Inspired You to Make This?
Family Stories and Voices Close your eyes and listen carefully to the warm whispers coming from the depths of your family. Grandpa’s humming is a happy time in childhood; Grandma’s gentle voice is the sweetest lullaby before bed; parents’ singing is a warm force that accompanies growth. These melodies, like gold threads, connect the common memories of children’s families and connect the past, present, and future. In the “Echoes of Melody: Tracing Time and Capturing Family Stories in Sound and Light" special exhibition, we will invite you to join us in excavating those long-forgotten family stories and using sound, light and shadow, and music boxes to transform them into moving works of art. We believe that every family has its own unique story, and these stories are all worth cherishing and passing on. Through this exhibition, we hope to make more people feel the warmth and strength of family power. It can give us courage, hope, and love, and guide us to keep moving forward on the path of life. Let’s come together and use love and creativity to write a happy chapter for each family!
