29/06/2026
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📢【ANIH 2026 International Seminar】 | Seminar Recap!📢
The second ANIH international seminar of this year analyzes the local value of Asian sugar heritage through a cross-national comparative lens. It explores how the vast industrial remnants and historical memories of sugar industries across Asian countries can balance cultural heritage preservation with the pressures of modern social development.
The seminar opened with a welcoming address by Nien, Chen-yu, Deputy Director-General of the Bureau of Cultural Heritage, Ministry of Culture, who extended his greetings to international experts, scholars, and representatives from both public and private sectors attending onsite and online. Nien emphasized that cultural heritage preservation is the core mission of the Bureau, and the ANIH platform serves as a transnational cooperative framework specifically established for industrial heritage. It aims to promote Taiwan's heritage to the global stage while absorbing international experience to enhance domestic conservation efforts.
Participation in this seminar was highly enthusiastic. In addition to Chou, Su-Ju and Yan, Bin-Feng representing domestic scholarship, the event specially featured international experts: Professor Ivan Anthony S. Henares from the University of the Philippines, who joined online, and Mr. Matsuda Yosh*taka, a freelance journalist from Japan and author of ‘’The Taiwanese of Yaeyama’’. It is hoped that this rich exchange of diverse regional experiences will offer profound insights and references for the sustainable governance of industrial heritage across Asia and Taiwan.
🎤 Speaker 1: Chou, Su-Ju / Founder, Muyuing Ltd.; International Correspondent, ANIH
🎋 Sugar Heritage, Lasting Legacy: Value Interpretation and Educational Strategies in Taiwan
As the northernmost sugar factory among Taiwan’s relatively well-preserved sugar production sites, the Yumei Sugar Factory, founded in 1909, stands as a testament to the development of Taiwanese agricultural-industrial technology and modern industrial scientific achievements. Its industrial network has profoundly shaped the Houli area and extended as far as Yuanli. However, following massive landscape shifts between the 1960s and 1980s, the closure of the factory in 1999 fractured collective memories, resulting in an educational gap where neighboring primary schools lacked the means to engage with the sugar heritage site.
Faced with this challenge, Chou proposed a visionary approach of "making culture a supporting system for education." She initiated a multi-year social co-creation experiment that transcends traditional culture-centric paradigms. Moving instead from "human needs," this initiative integrates cultural heritage with the localized 108 Curriculum Guidelines and situational learning adapted for the AI era. This approach builds a multi-dimensional sugar education framework, validating its success by closely monitoring the lived perceptions of the students.
The practical ex*****on of this experiment unfolds across three distinct phases:
• Phase One (Building Local Knowledge): The team integrated four local primary schools, community youth, and local young farmers to spearhead sugarcane recultivation, theater performances, and storytelling, immersing students in multi-sensory experiences and food-and-agriculture education.
• Phase Two (Reconnecting Linear Contexts): Confronting the fragmentation caused by the removal of sugar railways, the team pivotally turned to exploring "irrigation canal systems." This successfully linked the factories and farms into a systematic narrative, while designing specific tasks for different schools to drive intercollegiate collaborative learning.
• Phase Three (Expanding Global Horizons): Aligning with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the initiative leverages the historical connection of Yumei’s raw sugar being shipped to Moji, Japan for refining. The team plans to lead local school children in cross-border dialogues with primary schools in Japan.
Chou beautifully concluded her talk by stating: "What we look forward to is not simply how much cultural heritage we manage to preserve, but how many children, through understanding the land and stories of their hometown, gain the capacity to look out and see the wider world."
🎤Speaker 2: Yan, Bin-Feng / Assistant Professor, College of Humanities and Applied Sciences, Office of Sustainability and Social Responsibility, National Formosa University
🏭 Topic 2: Neo Sugar, Reviving Culture: Our Eco-museum Networks Engaging in Sweetness Town
Taiwanese sugar industry possesses a rich history dating back to the Dutch colonial period. The rise of modern mechanized sugar refining during the Japanese colonial era left a permanent imprint on Taiwan's subsequent economy, agriculture, transportation, and settlement patterns. As one of the last remaining operational sugar factories in Taiwan, the Huwei Sugar Factory anchors a true "Sugar Capital." Yan mapped out Huwei's historical rise driven by sugar, pointing out that National Formosa University (NFU), as a locally rooted institution, bears a profound civic obligation to ensure that the vital historical standing of Taiwan's early sugar industry is made visible to contemporary society. To achieve this, NFU launched the Sugar Capital Eco-museum project, aiming to transform the town into a living classroom for sugar industrial heritage.
Yan noted that Huwei is a highly unique settlement; unlike traditional Taiwanese towns that grew organically around a central temple, Huwei was systematically planned with the sugar factory and the district government office serving as its dual political and economic axes. It preserves Taiwan's only active, dynamic "Five-Inch" sugar railway landscape alongside architectural styles spanning various eras since the Taisho period.
To re-introduce this ecosystem into contemporary life, the team took the town's historical axis, Zhongshan Road, as their field laboratory, advancing the "Eco-museum" concept through two dynamic strategies:
• The Inward/Backward Perspective (Sensory Mapping and Identity Building): Through redesigned university general education courses, the team leads university students from other regions directly into the sugar factory and surrounding communities. By guiding them through the complete labor process—from understanding raw sugarcane to producing a bottle of artisanal sugar—the students organically internalize a sense of community connection and structural understanding of the Sugar Capital.
• The Outward/Forward Perspective (Intergenerational Education and Tech Integration): The team utilizes curated exhibitions and AI robot development to allow university students to learn about Huwei through the process of compiling and inputting historical data. These students then step into the neighboring Anqing Elementary School during morning study hours to share these stories, planting the seeds of sugar industrial education in early childhood.
Yan summarized this integrated loop of preservation and adaptation: "From cultural preservation to local participation, from educational practice to industrial innovation—culture is not merely a preserved memory, but the active force driving local sustainability."
🎤Speaker 3: Matsuda Yosh*taka / Freelance Journalist
🗺️ The Sugarcane Industry, Population Migration, and Memories: A Case Study of Taiwan-Okinawa Through the Sugar Industry
Matsuda adopted a transnational perspective to uncover a dual migration history between Taiwan and Okinawa, closely bound together by the sugar industry. The first historical intersection of this narrative centers on the wartime evacuation of Okinawans at the end of World War II. Following the fall of Saipan in 1944, the Japanese government coordinated the evacuation of approximately 20,000 Okinawans to Taiwan. Arriving at the port of Keelung, these temporary residents moved along the main longitudinal railway line to disperse into rural areas, or transferred onto sugar railways to journey deeper into regions like Nantou and Changhua. By cross-referencing deep oral history transcripts with historical documents such as the Diary of Den Kenjiro, Matsuda systematically reconstructed the deeply buried memories of these evacuees, whose recollections had been blurred by wartime displacement and unfamiliar environments.
The second intersection is defined by the postwar wave of Taiwanese industrial sugar technicians migrating under the U.S. civil administration of Okinawa. During this period, Okinawa faced an acute shortage of agricultural labor due to the economic pull of mainland Japan. In response, the Taiwanese and Okinawan authorities negotiated a framework for Taiwanese technical laborers to migrate to places like Minami-Daito Island to work in sugar production, with a significant majority hailing from Changhua County and Dalin, Chiayi. Because the sugar factories in both regions shared near-identical processing mechanisms and transportation logistics, the Taiwanese workers adapted rapidly. They earned high wages unmatched in Taiwan at the time and brought back consumer goods like wool yarn and Yomeishu tonic as gifts, leaving a profound memory of mutual cross-border aid among the elderly populations of both societies.
Furthermore, this shared history fostered the cross-border transmission of agricultural expertise. Matsuda shared the stories of two Okinawan figures: Mr. Kinjo, an alumnus of the Government-General’s Sugar Experiment Station in Taiwan, who returned to Okinawa to establish his own farm and whose family estate name (屋號, yagou) was posthumously honored as "Taiwan House"; and Mr. Tamai, who returned to Ishigaki Island after the February 28 Incident to establish a pineapple corporation. Both figures shared a common trajectory—gaining robust practical expertise within Taiwanese sugar corporations and utilizing that knowledge to pioneer agricultural development upon returning to Okinawa. Matsuda expressed his hope that continuing historical and literary research will deepen bilateral exchange, attracting more Okinawan travelers fascinated by agricultural landscapes to visit rural Taiwan, thereby carrying forward this profound, interconnected memory.
🎤Speaker 4: Ivan Anthony S. Henares / Assistant Professor, University of the Philippines; President, ICOMOS International Cultural Tourism Committee; International Correspondent, ANIH
🚂 ICOMOS International Charter for Cultural Heritage Tourism (2022): Reinforcing cultural heritage protection and community resilience through responsible and sustainable tourism management
The sugar trade stands as an early and significant milestone in the Philippines' engagement with the forces of globalization, with substantial amounts of refined sugar being exported to India, Bengal, Persia, and China as early as the 1750s. The modern industrialization of this sector is credited to Nicolas Loney, the British Vice Consul in the port city of Iloilo on Panay Island, whose firm Loney & Co. introduced machinery on an installment basis to overcome the capital shortages of local planters, sparking massive inter-island migration and clearing of land. Over the course of this development, early sugar plantations known as haciendas functioned as self-contained, isolated communities. By the turn of the 20th century, with the introduction of the central azucarera (centrifugal sugar central) characterized by its iconic industrial smokestacks, these self-sufficient entities evolved into modern "company towns" blending factories, chapels, schools, and residential quarters. By 1925, out of 36 sugar centrals across the Philippines, 16 were concentrated on Negros Island, the absolute premier producer of sugar.
Although Negros Island still preserves functional 20th-century sugar centrals and remnants of 19th-century muscovado machinery, these invaluable industrial heritage sites are rapidly disappearing across many parts of the Philippines. In response, the country launched its first-ever industrial heritage trail initiative: the Negros Island Sugar Heritage Trail. The project originally grew out of a proposal to serially nominate the historic sugar centrals of Negros Island for potential UNESCO World Heritage inscription, a scope later modified and expanded into the "Sugar Cultural Landscape of Negros Island". This initiative functions as an ongoing, iterative case study heavily rooted in grassroots civic participation. Guided by the Department of Tourism (DOT) and TwoEco, Inc., the project expanded in 2021 to incorporate Panay Island and Guimaras Island, culminating in the regional-scale "Western Visayas Sugar Heritage Trail". Its core vision focuses on mapping a detailed industrial heritage property inventory, understanding the primary drivers of community support, and evaluating the potential for inclusive interpretation and sustainable tourism management.
Professor Henares highlighted two highly charged, structural challenges confronting industrial heritage preservation. The first is the direct friction between modern industrial upgrading and heritage preservation; operational sugar mills must constantly modernize and expand to remain viable, which frequently means replacing historic machinery, requiring policy intervention and careful coordination with owners. The second challenge centers on internal conflicts over historical interpretation. Sugar history carries heavy emotional baggage and deep class divisions within local communities; certain groups, remembering generations of harsh labor exploitation and unequal social conditions, may actively resist the "valorization" or celebration of sugar heritage. Consequently, the trail must implement an "Inclusive Interpretation" framework that simultaneously holds space for the diverse lived experiences of both the sacadas (indentured sugar laborers) and the hacienderos (the landed elite). By conducting market demand and gap analyses to design comprehensive tourism products, this heritage trail does not merely generate income and investment opportunities for local stakeholders; it serves as a vital catalyst for protecting industrial architecture and guiding the community to constructively come to terms with the challenging chapters of the island's sugar history.
🎤【Echoes from Taiwan’s Industrial Heritage: Commentary by Dr. Hsu Nai-yi】
Before the opening of the general discussion, commentator Dr. Hsu Nai-yi noted that Taiwan, the Philippines, and Java historically engaged in intense export competition within early global sugar markets. Furthermore, the industrial railway technologies of both Taiwan and the Philippines were deeply influenced by Hawaiian systems, and both regions suffered extensive Allied bombing raids during World War II, tracking remarkably similar historical trajectories. Drawing from his own field investigations, Dr. Hsu pointed out that the Philippines still maintains operational sugar factories with a massive daily crushing capacity of 7,000 tons. While transportation has predominantly shifted to trucks and the use of railways has declined, their circular economic model—using bagasse for power generation, recycling filter press mud for agricultural reuse, and distilling molasses into rum—continues to offer an excellent living blueprint for the preservation of active heritage within modern developing societies.
🌟Lastly, during the discussion , the assembled experts engaged in a sophisticated dialogue focusing on "breaking out of echo chambers and resolving structural deadlocks in cultural preservation."
Regarding communication outside established heritage circles, Professor Yan Bin-Feng noted that when engaging youth and school children who have zero intrinsic connection to industrial history, teams must deploy university students across generations to design accessible "mediating educational materials," translating dense historical data into a vocabulary that resonates with the younger generation. Director Chou Su-Ju emphasized a human-centric, inverted approach to institutional engagement: when heritage workers stop imposing culture as an absolute mandate and instead position themselves as facilitators ready to meet a school's practical needs—such as fulfilling requirements for international education—culture naturally transforms into the school's most powerful structural ally. Mr. Matsuda further observed that Taiwan possesses an incredibly dense and rich array of sugar industrial heritage properties nationwide. If these sites are supported by rigorous investigation and paired with improvements in rural transportation logistics, they would hold immense appeal for Okinawan travelers, fostering a deeper mutual understanding between the populations of Taiwan and Okinawa.
Addressing the friction between commercialization and sustainable heritage operations, Dr. Hsu Nai-yi observed that commercial transformations—such as the Yumei Sugar Factory operating as a roadside tourist rest stop or the Ten Drum Cultural and Creative Park at the Rende Sugar Factory in Tainan—often cause purist heritage enthusiasts to sigh. However, viewing this through the pragmatic lens of Taiwan Sugar Corporation’s contemporary corporate survival, it operates much like a political party where the "prestige/image faction" and the "local/pragmatic faction" each fulfill distinct, necessary roles. Introducing capital through calculated commercialization while running pure cultural advocacy in parallel is often a necessary structural compromise to keep large-scale industrial heritage physically and financially viable over the long term.
The seminar was brought to a close by the moderator, Associate Professor Wang Chun-Hsi, who synthesized the core themes. Professor Wang remarked that sugar factories remain an industrial landscape widely beloved by the public, yet the contemporary deadlocks in their preservation and interpretation stem fundamentally from a lack of proper incentives for diverse stakeholders. Cultural practitioners communicating with various stakeholders must master the art of perspective-taking, utilizing distinct strategies to argue for the long-term value of preservation from the exact viewpoint of the stakeholder. By allowing the opposing party to gradually evolve into an active participant in the preservation vision, a resilient consensus can be forged. It is through this continuous breaking out of cultural echo chambers that these historic industrial landscapes can be truly reimagined as vital, dynamic engines driving contemporary society toward a sustainable future.
📢【ANIH 2026國際講座─甜味時光：亞洲地景中的糖業記憶與場域新生】 | 講座紀實
本年度第二場ANIH國際講座透過跨國案例對照，剖析亞洲糖業遺產的在地價值，並探討亞洲各國龐大的糖業遺構與歷史記憶在面對現代社會發展時，如何平衡文資保存與轉型壓力。本場講座首先由文化部文化資產局粘振裕副局長致歡迎詞，向現場與線上的國際專家、學者、公私部門代表致意。並指出文化資產保存是文資局的核心工作，而 ANIH 平台正是為了針對產業遺產所成立的跨國合作平台，旨在將臺灣的遺產推廣到國際，同時吸取國際經驗以提升國內文資保存成效。本次講座參與極為踴躍，除了周素如老師與顏彬峰老師嶺為國內學者以外，更特別邀請到國際專家：包括線上參與的菲律賓大學 Ivan 教授，以及《八重山的台灣人》作者─日本的松田良孝先生。期許透過不同地區的豐富經驗交流，為亞洲與臺灣展開產業遺產的永續治理帶來切身的啟示與借鏡。
🎤講者：周素如/如山文創有限公司 創辦人、ANIH國際通訊員
👉講題：餘甘人生：臺灣糖業遺址的價值轉譯與教育推廣策略
月眉糖廠作為臺灣保存較為完整的糖廠中最北邊的一座，創立於1909年的月眉糖廠見證了台灣農工技術的發展與近代工業的科學成就，其產業脈絡深遠影響了后里周遭乃至遠及苑裡一帶。然而，隨著1960至1980年代地景的大幅變遷，1999年糖廠停閉導致集體記憶出現斷裂，甚至導致鄰近小學不知如何與糖廠接洽的教學困境。面對此一現狀，素如老師提出「讓文化成為教育的支持系統」的思維，推動一場為期多年的社會共創實驗，嘗試跳脫傳統以文化為本位的思考，改從「人的需求」出發，讓文化結合108課綱與AI時代的情境學習，建構多元面向的糖業教育方案，並透過觀察學童們的感受檢視成果。這場實驗在實踐上分為三個階段推進。第一階段著重於地方知識學的建構，團隊有效整合在地四間小學、社區青年與青農等板塊，透過甘蔗復耕、戲劇與故事演繹，帶領學童展開多元感官體驗與食農教育。隨後在第二階段，面對糖鐵拆除、線性脈絡面臨中斷的困境，團隊靈活轉向「水圳脈絡」的爬梳，成功串聯起工場與農場的系統性敘事，並為不同學校設計特定任務以串連校際共學效益。最終在第三階段，團隊進一步開拓孩子的國際視野，扣合SDGs永續目標，藉由月眉昔日粗糖運往日本門司精煉的歷史臍帶，預計帶領在地學童與日本的小學進行國際對談。素如老師強調，我們期待的不只是留下多少文化資產，而是有多少孩子因為認識家鄉的土地與故事，而擁有看見世界的能力。
🎤講者：顏彬峰/國立虎尾科技大學文理學院暨永續處助理教授
👉講題：好糖，文化翻轉：糖都Eco-museum行動
臺灣的糖業擁有自自荷蘭時期以降的悠久歷史，日治時期新式製糖的興起更是深刻影響了往後臺灣的經濟、農業、交通與聚落。虎尾糖廠作為目前台灣碩果僅存運作中的糖廠，是名副其實的糖都，彬峰老師為我們梳理了虎尾因糖業而興起的歷史，並指出如今虎科大作為虎尾在地的大學，有義務推動臺灣糖業早期如此重要的地位被如今的社會看見。於是虎科大提出了糖都生態博物館的計劃，希望塑造虎尾糖都可以成為學習糖業的生活場域。彬峰老師提到，虎尾是一座極具特殊性的聚落，與台灣傳統以廟宇為中心的聚落不同，它是以糖廠與郡役所為政經雙軸心發展，並保留了全台唯一的五分車動態景觀與大正年間至今不同年代的建築。為此，團隊以城鎮軸線中山路為實踐基地，提出「生態博物館(Eco-museum)」概念並舉出兩個案例。一方面透過設計大學通識課程，引導外地來的大學生走進糖廠與社區，經歷「從認識甘蔗到產出一瓶好糖」的完整過程，進而內化學生們對糖都的共融感與認知。另一方面利用策展與AI機器人開發，讓大學生藉由鍵入資料的過程認識到虎尾。並走進鄰近糖廠的安慶國小，利用晨光時間分享故事，讓糖業教育從小扎根。彬峰老師總結，從文化保存到地方參與、從教育實踐到產業創新、文化不只是被保存的記憶，而是驅動地方永續的力量
🎤講者：松田良孝/自由撰稿者
👉講題：甘蔗產業、人口移動、記憶：以糖業為例探討臺灣與沖繩的關係
松田先生由跨國視角切入，揭示了臺灣與沖繩因糖業而緊密交織的雙向移民史。這段歷史的第一個交會點，是二戰末期的沖繩人疏散記憶。1944年塞班島失陷後，日本政府安排約兩萬名沖繩人疏散至台灣，這群臨時居民自基隆上岸後，沿著縱貫鐵路疏開到鄉間，或進一步轉乘糖業鐵路深入南投、彰化等地區。松田先生透過豐富的訪談紀錄與《田健治郎日記》等文獻進行交叉對照，重塑因時代動盪、對交通環境不熟而記憶模糊的疏散者，描繪他們深藏的記憶。再者，則是戰後美管時期的臺灣糖業技術移工。當時沖繩由美軍管轄，由於繁榮的日本本土產生的拉力，沖繩面臨農業勞動力嚴重短缺，台沖雙方政府遂協調臺灣移工前往沖繩南大東島等地從事糖業生產其中又以以彰化縣與嘉義大林佔大多數。由於兩地的糖廠在製程與運輸系統高度相似，臺灣工人很快適應，也獲得了台灣所遠不能及的高薪，並帶回了毛線、養命酒等伴手禮，在兩地老人心中留下了深刻的互助記憶。此外，臺灣與沖繩之間相互交流的歷史也孕育了跨國農業技術的傳播。松田先生舉了兩位沖繩人的故事。如總督府糖業試驗場出身的金城先生，回沖繩後開拓了自己的農場，並在逝世後屋號（類似台灣的堂號）被尊稱為「台灣屋」；以及另一位玉井先生在二二八事件後回石垣島建立鳳梨會社。兩位的共通點是進入台灣的製糖會社工作，獲得實務經驗後回去沖繩從事農業開發。最後松田先生指出，希望透過文史研究深化雙邊交流與理解，未來能吸引更多喜愛農業地景的沖繩遊客造訪臺灣鄉村，並進一步傳遞這樣的共同記憶。
🎤講者：Ivan Anthony S. Henares /菲律賓大學亞洲觀光研究所助理教授、ICOMOS國際文化觀光科學委員會主席、ANIH國際通訊員
👉講題：菲律賓「內格羅斯島和帕奈島的糖業文化景觀」遺產路線擬定策略
菲律賓的糖業貿易是該國早期接軌全球化浪潮的重要里程碑，早在1750年代，大批精煉糖便已遠銷印度、孟加拉、波斯與中國。近代糖業的工業化則歸功於英國駐怡朗副領事 Nicolas Loney 的技術與資本引進，進而引發了大規模的跨島移民與墾殖。在發展過程中，早期的製糖莊園（Haciendas）多為自給自足的封閉社區。隨後在20世紀初，隨著引進擁有高聳煙囪與離心製糖技術的「新型中央糖廠（Central Azucarera）」，這些獨立莊園逐步演變成集結了工廠、教堂、學校與生活區的現代「企業城鎮（Company Towns）」。到了1925年，全菲律賓36座中央糖廠中，便有高達16座集中在最核心的產區——內格羅斯島（Negros Island）。
然而，儘管島上至今仍保有20世紀的製糖中心與19世紀的紅糖（Muscovado）機械殘骸，這些寶貴的工業遺產在菲律賓許多地方正遭遇快速消失的危機。為此，菲律賓推動了全國首創的產業文化路徑——「內格羅斯島糖業文化路徑（Negros Island Sugar Heritage Trail）」，最初構想是串聯島上的歷史糖廠群向聯合國教科文組織（UNESCO）申請世界遺產登錄，後逐步修正並擴大藍圖。這是一項高度奠基於民眾參與的持續性個案研究，在菲律賓觀光部（DOT）與 TwoEco 公司的引導下，計畫在2021年進一步將潘賴島與吉馬拉斯島納入，共同建構更具區域規模的「西米沙鄢(Western Visayas)糖業文化路徑」。其核心願景在於建立詳盡的工業遺產物業目錄、理解社區支持的關鍵動力，並評估具包容性的歷史詮釋與永續觀光發展潛力。
Ivan 教授指出，推動工業遺產保存面臨著兩大極具張力的現實挑戰。首先是現代化升級與文資保存的拉鋸，仍在運作中的糖廠因應現代化與擴廠需求，往往傾向淘汰舊有機械，亟需政策與所有人之間的協調保護。其次是歷史詮釋的衝突，糖業歷史在地方社會常帶有複雜的情感與階級衝突，部分社群因過去慘烈的勞資問題與不平等的社會記憶，容易對將糖業「資產化」產生抗拒情緒。因此，文化路徑必須落實「包容性詮釋（Inclusive Interpretation）」，同時包容 sacadas（契約苦力勞工） 與 hacienderos（地主菁英） 的多元歷史視角。透過評估市場需求、產品開發與管理差距，這套文化路徑不僅為當地社區創造了投資與收益機會，更成為保護工業遺址、引導大眾正視並跨越島嶼糖業艱難歷史的重要催化劑。
【菲律賓與台灣糖業的呼應：許乃懿醫師分享】
本次講座的綜合座談開始前，與談人許乃懿醫師補充指出，臺灣、菲律賓與爪哇在早期國際糖業市場上存在著輸出競爭，且台菲兩國糖鐵技術皆深受夏威夷的影響，二戰時亦同樣承受美軍空襲，歷史軌跡相當相似。經由許醫師的現地考察，菲律賓目前仍有日壓量達7000噸的糖廠運作，雖然運輸多已改為卡車、鐵路比例降低，但其蔗渣發電、濾泥利用與將糖蜜製成萊姆酒的循環經濟模式，依然為活態遺產的保存與現代社會的發展提供了極佳的借鏡。
💬 綜合座談中，與會專家針對「如何打破同溫層、化解文資保存困境」展開了精彩的討論。關於非同溫層的溝通，顏彬峰老師認為，面對毫無感知的青年與學童，必須透過不同世代的大學生設計中介教材，將生硬的文資內化為年輕世代能接受的語彙。周素如老師則強調「以人為本」的逆向思考，當文化主動退到協助者的角色，去滿足學校對國際教育或其他方面的需求時，文化自然就變成了最強大的支持平台。松田先生也進一步指出，臺灣如此豐富的糖業文化資產遍布各地，如果能妥善經營與調查，並改善交通的問題。許多沖繩人會非常感興趣，期盼能讓台灣與沖繩間彼此更認識。針對商業化與永續營運的拉鋸，許乃懿醫師則談到，諸如月眉糖廠轉型為類似公路休息站或台南仁德糖廠十鼓文創園區的商業模式，雖然常讓文資愛好者感到唏噓，但從台糖營運的現實層面來看，這就像是政黨中的「形象牌」與「地方派系」各司其職。適度商業化注入資金，與純粹的文化推廣並行，反而可能是在現實中維持文資長久營運的必要考量。講座最後由主持人王淳熙老師總結，糖廠是全民熱愛的文化遺產，但當前面臨的維護與詮釋困境，核心在於提升更多人去認識的誘因。文化工作者在與不同利害關係人溝通時，必須學會換位思考，運用不同策略從對方的角度去論述保存能帶來的長遠價值。讓對方漸漸成為我們所期待的成果。進而當這樣的共識成形，同溫層不斷擴大，這些昔日的產業地景，才能真正化為驅動當代社會永續向前的重要角色。
