06/08/2026
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📢 【ANIH 2026 International Correspondents Meeting】| Event Recap (2/3) ⛏️✨
The event recap arrives at Part 2! Continuing our fascinating discussion on Taiwan’s petroleum industrial heritage from the previous post, in this part we shift our focus to the historic mountain towns, concentrating on the preservation of mining heritage and local practice in the Shui-Jin-Jiu area! ⛰️🏮
🎤 Speaker: Tseng Yi-Hsien / Director, Jiufen Gold Ore Museum; Co-founder, Mountain of Dreams Culture Lab
Lin Mon-Hsuan / Project Manager, Mountain of Dreams Culture Lab
👉 Topic: From Industrial Heritage to Everyday Life: Local Practice and Cross-Cultural Exchange in Jiufen
In the second session, Director Tseng Yi-Hsien of the Jiufen Gold Ore Museum and Project Manager Lin Mon-Hsuan of Mountain of Dreams Culture Lab shared how Jiufen's "Miyoko Barber Shop" evolved from a local living space into an action base connecting cross-generational and cross-cultural communication from the micro-perspective of everyday life, along with their experiences during the implementation process. 💈🏠
Director Tseng first raised a fundamental reflection: when the public mentions mining heritage, they often intuitively think of production facilities such as mine pits, railways, and heavy machinery. However, industry not only creates production systems but also shapes the overall "Lifeworld." Jiufen was once a complete mining city that flourished due to gold mining, where tens of thousands of people worked, lived, and established families. The barber shop run by Grandma Miyoko served as a social node of mining life, recording the authentic life memories of ordinary people. After Grandma Miyoko passed away in 2023, the team rented Jiufen's last traditional barber shop for preservation. Initially, the team used museum cataloging and exhibition techniques to organize objects and invited Grandma's family and close neighbors to return to the space, evoking the deep sentiment that "Miyoko seems to have left, yet feels as if she never left." 👵📸
However, Director Tseng further asked: "If we only preserve the objects and space, but no one gets a haircut here anymore, is this really a barber shop, or just a static exhibition space that looks like one?" To this end, he personally learned hair-cutting skills to bring barbering services back into the space. In the process of cutting hair for elderly residents, he also seized the opportunity to conduct interviews, unearthing many unrecorded memories and living habits. ✂️💬
The team further initiated the "Old-School Date" cultural experience action. In earlier society, haircutting was a ritual for people to groom themselves for major occasions such as matchmaking and dates, carrying special significance. The team guided participants to change into popular 1980s attire, head to Shengping Theater to experience eating boiled corn while watching movies, enjoy shaved ice at ice shops, take polaroid photos, and write postcards. The core of this experience lies not in retro nostalgia, but in letting the younger generation—accustomed to instant messaging—personally experience the time nodes of "waiting" and "believing" through the process of "polaroid developing" and "mailing postcards," thereby reflecting on the diverse possibilities of contemporary life rhythm. 🌽🍧✉️⌛
Project Manager Lin Mon-Hsuan analyzed how an outsider like himself participated in local cultural action from the academic perspectives of his background in language teaching and cross-cultural communication. Manager Lin pointed out that traditional guided tours often face the dilemma of high knowledge concentration, making cross-cultural communication inefficient. Citing cultural theorist Stuart Hall, he proposed that cultural meaning is not fixed, but changes with culture and time; culture itself is a continuous process and practice of generating meaning. 📚 Manager Lin shared a case study of a team of university students from Yuan Ze University in Taoyuan: this group of young students connected with Jiufen through a free haircutting initiative. Over several months, they deeply interviewed street residents, local singers, and a French artist-in-residence, creating the documentary Dreaming on the Mineral Vein, which won second place in the National Local Revitalization Micro-Movie Competition. They insisted on holding the premiere in Jiufen, fostering a dialogue between local residents and the new generation. 📽️🏆
Manager Lin concluded that the core concept of promoting a segment of mining history that may not belong to one's personal memory—making people willing to enter, participate, and even stay—does not lie solely in how many buildings and original appearances are preserved, or how many tourists have heard its story. It also lies in whether it can still create new shared experiences, enabling people of different generations, professions, places, and life backgrounds to find an entry point for understanding, a place for participation, and gradually feel that the place is "relevant to me." 🤝❤️
🎤 Speaker: Huang, Chia Chun / Research Assistant, Gold Museum, New Taipei City Government
👉 Topic: Geoparks: An Alternative Solution to the Challenge of Mining Heritage Preservation
Research Assistant Huang, Chia Chun from the Gold Museum, New Taipei City Government, approached from his expertise in geology to propose an innovative strategy using "Geoparks" to break through the traditional dilemmas of mining cultural heritage preservation. ⛰️🌱
Researcher Huang reviewed that the Shui-Jin-Jiu (Shuinandong, Jinguashi, Jiufen) area possesses extremely high potential World Heritage value. However, during early efforts to designate it as a "Cultural Landscape" under the Cultural Heritage Preservation Act, it encountered strong resistance from local residents. Local residents feared that if private land and residences were designated as cultural landscapes, building repair rights and residential rights would be strictly restricted, leading to a standstill in the cultural landscape proposal. To break this impasse, the team turned to the "Geopark" system, which was incorporated into the category of "Natural Landscapes" after the 2016 amendment of the Cultural Heritage Preservation Act. It successfully passed review on November 27, 2025, officially establishing the statutory local-level "Jiufen, Jinguashi, Shuinandong Geopark." 📜🏛️
The concept of geoparks originates from UNESCO. Unlike traditional national parks that exclude humans from nature for strict protection, geoparks emphasize "coexistence of humans and land," with core goals of integrating conservation, education, and sustainable tourism. Researcher Huang introduced the theory of "Geosystem Services" to illustrate how intangible geodiversity supports natural and cultural diversity: including provisioning services (providing building materials such as Mount Keelung andesite and metallic minerals), regulating and supporting services (water quality regulation and generating Mount Keelung spring water), and cultural services (geotourism and faith symbolism). 🌍💎
Researcher Huang analyzed the close relationship between humans and geology through several local case studies: first, volcanic activity millions of years ago created high-level gold and copper ore deposits in andesite geology, becoming the fundamental requirement for the mine's existence; second, open-pit mining at Benshan Mining Site flattened the mountain peak, which not only altered the landscape but also left a collective memory in the minds of local residents that "losing the mountain peak affected feng shui"; finally, flipping negative impressions with a scientific perspective, Golden Waterfall appears yellowish-brown due to Acid Mine Drainage (AMD) carrying heavy metals, previously viewed as a negative scar of mining pollution. However, environmental science investigations revealed that toxic arsenic concentrations in the waterfall water actually showed a downward trend from the source to the Yinyang Sea estuary. The reason is that fibrous secondary minerals—specifically Schwertmannite—deposited by the waterfall can efficiently adsorb and solidify arsenic in the water. Researcher Huang pointed out that this proves Golden Waterfall is a scientific site where nature conducts self-restoration and purification, as well as guided tour material of immense environmental education value. 🌊🧪🔬
In coordination with the geopark transformation, the Gold Museum promoted the concept of "Eco-museum + Geopark" to establish a local knowledge system of "Mining Studies." In the past, preservation work mostly focused on history, culture, and cultural assets themselves; today, it further balances the inclusion of geology and environmental education. Only by first fully preserving these important foundations can we further explore their deep geological and cultural contributions, thereby achieving overall environmental preservation. On this basis, the museum updated the exhibition at the Earth Hall and enabled artists to translate and create using geological knowledge through the "Mine Art Festival"; simultaneously, it promoted the empowerment of local residents and docents, working together with local residents to articulate the geological and cultural values of their hometown. 🎨🗺️
⏳ 【To Be Continued...】 Final Episode Teaser!
👉 Part 3 of the event recap will be released TOMORROW at the same time!
Tomorrow, we will take you on a deep dive into classic Asia-Pacific cases, including the Namtu-Bawdwin mining area in Myanmar and the Zawar zinc mining and smelting site in Rajasthan, India! Stay tuned! 🇲🇲🇮🇳✨
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📢 【ANIH 2026 國際通訊員交流會】｜交流紀實（2／3） ⛏️✨
交流紀實來到中集！接續上一篇關於臺灣石油產業遺產的精彩分享，本篇我們將把視角轉向山城，聚焦於水金九地區的礦業遺產保存與地方實踐⛰️🏮
🎤講者：曾譯嫻／九份金礦博物館館長、林孟宣／夢想山文化調進所專案經理
👉 講題：從產業遺產到生活場域─九份美代子理髮廳的地方實踐、文化行動參與之觀察與跨文化溝通
講題二由九份金礦博物館曾譯嫻館長與夢想山文化調進所專案經理林孟宣，從微觀的常民生活視角，分享了九份「美代子理髮廳」如何從一處地方生活空間，演變為連結跨世代與跨文化溝通的行動基地，以及他們在實踐的過程中的經驗💈🏠
譯嫻館長首先提出根本性的反思：當大眾提及礦業遺產時，往往直覺聯想到礦坑、鐵道與大型機械等生產設施。然而，產業不僅創造了生產系統，更形塑了整體的「生活世界」（Lifeworld）。九份曾是一座因採金而興起的完整礦山城市，上萬人口在此工作、居住成家立業。而美代子阿媽經營的理髮廳作為礦山生活的社交節點，記錄了常民真實的生命記憶。2023 年美代子阿媽過世後，團隊承租下九份最後一間傳統理髮廳進行保存。初始團隊採用博物館編目與展示技術整理物件，並邀請阿媽的家人與閨蜜鄰居重返空間，召喚出「美代子好像離開了，但又好像沒離開」的情感👵📸
然而，譯嫻館長進一步問到：「如果只保存了物件與空間，卻不再有人在此理髮，這究竟是理髮廳，還是只是一個像理髮廳的靜態展場？」 為此，他親自學習剪髮技術，將理髮服務重新帶回空間。在為老長輩理髮的過程中，也藉機啟動訪問，挖掘出許多並未被記錄的記憶與生活習慣✂️💬
團隊還進一步發起「老派約會」文化體驗行動。理髮在早期社會是人們為了參加相親、約會等重大場合而整理儀容的儀式，背後帶有一定的意義。團隊引導參與者換上 1980 年代流行服飾，前往昇平戲院體驗吃水煮玉米看電影、在冰果室吃刨冰、拍攝拍立得並書寫明信片。該體驗的核心不在於懷舊復古，而是透過「拍立得顯影」與「寄送明信片」的過程，讓當代習慣即時訊息的年輕世代親身體驗「等待」與「相信」的時間節點，進而反思當前生活節奏的多元可能性🌽🍧✉️⌛
林孟宣專案經理則從自身語言教學與跨文化溝通的學理視角，剖析了像他這樣的外來者如何參與地方文化行動。孟宣經理指出，傳統導覽常面臨知識濃度過高的困境，使得跨文化間傳播的效率不彰。他引用文化研究學者 Stuart Hall 的觀點提出，文化的意義並非固定不變，而會隨文化與時代改變，文化本身是一種持續產生意義的過程與實踐📚孟宣經理分享了桃園元智大學的大學生團隊的案例：這群年輕學生因免費理髮行動與九份結緣，歷時數月深度採訪街頭巷尾居民、地方歌手及駐村法國藝術家，拍攝出榮獲全國地方創生微電影競賽亞軍的紀錄片《夢在礦脈上》，並堅持將首映會辦在九份，促成在地居民與新世代的對話📽️🏆
孟宣經理最後歸納指出，推動一段未必屬於個人記憶的礦業歷史，使人願意進入、參與，甚至留下來的核心概念。不只在於保存下來多少建築與原貌，或有多少旅客聽過它的故事。它也在於，是否仍然能夠創造新的共同經歷，讓不同世代、專業、地方與生命背景的人，在其中找到理解的入口、參與的位置，並逐漸把地方感覺成「與我有關」🤝❤️
🎤 講者：黃家俊／新北市立黃金博物館研究助理
👉 講題：地質公園：礦業資產保存困境的另一種解方
新北市立黃金博物館黃家俊研究助理從地質學專業出發，提出了以「地質公園」（Geopark）作為突破傳統礦業文化資產保存困境的創新策略⛰️🌱
家俊研究員回顧，水金九（水湳洞、金瓜石、九份）地區具備極高的世界遺產潛力價值，但在早期推動指定為《文化資產保存法》下的「文化景觀」時，遭遇了在地居民的強烈反彈。地方居民深恐私有土地與住宅被劃入文化景觀後，建築修繕權與居住權益將受到嚴格限制，致使文化景觀推動方案停擺。為破解此一僵局，團隊轉向 2016 年修訂《文資法》後納入「自然地景」範疇的「地質公園」制度，並於 2025 年 11 月 27 日順利通過審議，正式成立法定地方級「九份金瓜石水湳洞地質公園」📜🏛️
地質公園的概念源自 UNESCO，其異於傳統國家公園將人排除於自然之外嚴格保護的作法，地質公園強調「人與地共存」，核心目標在於統合保育、教育與永續旅遊。家俊研究員引入「地質系統服務」（Geosystem Services）理論，說明無形的地質多樣性如何支撐自然與文化的多樣性：包含供給資源（提供如基隆山安山岩建材及金屬礦物）、調節與支持服務（水質調節與生成基隆山湧泉）以及文化服務（地質觀光與信仰象徵）🌍💎
家俊研究員研究員透過多個在地案例剖析人與地質的緊密關係：首先是百萬年前的火山活動，造就了安山岩地質高位的金銅礦床，成為礦山存在的根本要件；其次是本山礦場的露天開採將山頭削平，不僅改變地景，也在地方居民的心理上留下「失去山頭影響風水」的集體記憶；最後是以科學視角翻轉負面印象的黃金瀑布，其因酸性礦山排水（AMD）夾帶重金屬而呈黃褐色，過去常被視為礦業污染的負面傷疤。然而環境科學調查發現，瀑布水中有毒的「砷」濃度從源頭至陰陽海入海口居然呈下降趨勢。原因在於瀑布沉積的纖維狀次生礦物「四方硫酸纖鐵礦」（Schwertmannite）能高效吸附並固化水中的砷。家俊研究員指出，這證明黃金瀑布是大自然進行自我復育與淨化的科學現場，也是極具環境教育價值的導覽素材🌊🧪🔬
黃金博物館配合地質公園轉型，推動「生態博物館 + 地質公園」的概念，建立「礦山學」在地知識體系。以往保存工作多聚焦於歷史文化與文化資產本身，如今則進一步平衡納入地質與環境教育。唯有先將這些重要的基底完整保存，才能進一步探討其地質與文化的深層貢獻，進而實現整體的環境保存。在此基礎上，館方更新大地館展覽，並透過「礦山藝術季」讓藝術家得以運用地質知識進行創作轉譯；同時推動在地居民與解説員培力，與地方居民共同闡述家鄉的地質與文化價值🎨🗺️
⏳ 【連載預告】精彩最終章預告！
👉 第三集的交流紀實將於明天同一時間發布！
明天我們將帶大家深入探討緬甸 Namtu-Bawdwin 礦區以及印度 Rajasthan 的 Zawar 鋅礦與冶煉遺址等亞太地區的經典案例！敬請期待！💈✂️❤️
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