讓中國藝術文化蘊藏的故事與價值看得見｜賽馬會「看得見的記憶」藝術教育計劃

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The 3-year Jockey Club “How Memory Sticks” Arts Education Programme is coming to a close. Extremely popular among the education sector and loved by students, the programme has also impressed even the most capable event organizers with its innovative event design and various interesting activities. Now, let us review how the programme organizer, Design and Cultural Studies Workshop (CnC), has introduced Chinese traditional art and culture to the public by integrating technology with a lively educational approach!

Commenced in 2018, “How Memory Sticks” aims to invite the public to look for various “traces” of Chinese art and culture in daily life together, and to discover the “invisible” memories that are full of modern significance in “visible” things. With “wares” as the theme, the first phase of the programme encouraged students and the public to explore the culture, history and artistic values behind each object by observing the wares in our lives. The second phase, themed on “architectures”, led the public into different architectural spaces to understand the “memories” carried within history and culture as well as their importance for our growth from four major facets: residence, garden, architectural value and style. The last phase focuses on “paintings” and aims to promote the public’s appreciation of Chinese traditional paintings through observing the subject matters such as characters, sceneries of mountains and waters, flowers and birds, as well as the brushstrokes, ink and colour, structure and placement, evaluation and collection in different Chinese paintings. By learning how to appreciate these paintings, the viewer could even catch a glimpse of the inner feelings and the ideal world of the ancients.

The core of the above three themes is “visible”. Traditional culture is not something that is far from our reach but actually exists in our daily life. With a down-to-earth and practical positioning, the programme has unearthed these treasures for everyone to see.

In keeping up with the ever-updating trends of the online world, “How Memory Sticks” has exclusively launched a total of 10 multi-media interactive applications, namely “Candy Box AR”, “Chinese Courtyard AR” and “Dreamworld VR‧AR”, that make use of digital technologies such as Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) respectively. In these applications, learning and gaming are combined so that players are transformed into an ancient to design a paper fan or a garden for themselves or even become a resident in a Chinese courtyard, just as the ancients did. These fun-filled applications allow players to acquire on their own the knowledge and understanding of Chinese traditional culture with games, rather than being inculcated in a rigid and passive way.

“How Memory Sticks” has produced teaching kits with different themes, such as tutor manuals, teaching PowerPoints, worksheets, multi-media resources, etc. During the previous suspension of school classes in the city, the programme even organized online education workshops to provide online teaching support to participating schools. Therefore, over the last 3 years, the programme has been very well received by numerous local schools and teachers of relevant subjects, who actively participated in various educational activities.

During the 3-year programme, the public could participate in “How Memory Sticks” via numerous ways, such as the “Family Portrait”, “Objects: Play(Back) Exhibition” and “Building of Bliss” public exhibitions organized during the first and second phase. In view of the social distancing restrictions under the pandemic, the organizer launched the “School-on-Hand” and “Exhibition-on-Desk” model sets to the delight and great enthusiasm of many different organizations. Moreover, “How Memory Sticks” has been providing extended knowledge and interesting anecdotes about Chinese and Western culture and art on their social media channels such as Facebook and Instagram pages, to inspire the public’s interest in self-study.

For more details, you can visit Jockey Club “How Memory Sticks” Arts Education Programme:

Website：www.howmemorysticks.org

Facebook：https://www.facebook.com/howmemorysticks/

Instagram：https://www.instagram.com/howmemorysticks/

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為期三年的「賽馬會『看得見的記憶』藝術教育計劃」已接近尾聲。這個項目為教育界追捧和同學們喜愛；各種新奇有趣的活動亦令活動籌辦界另眼相看。讓我們一起回顧主辦機構「設計及文化研究工作室」如何把傳統中國文化藝術教育，結合科技，以生活化的方式介紹給大眾認識吧！

「看得見的記憶」於2018年正式展開，與公眾從日常生活中尋找和傳統中國藝術文化相關的種種「痕跡」，從「看得見」的事物中，發掘「看不見」但饒富現代意義的記憶。計劃的第一階段以「器物」為主題，學生與市民能透過觀察生活中的器物，探索每件物件背後蘊藏的文化、歷史和藝術價值。第二階段，以「建築」為主題，從住居、園林、建築價值及風格四方面，帶領公眾走進不同建築空間，了解歷史文化中承載的「記憶」，以及對我們成長過程中的重要意義。最後階段以「繪畫」為題，公眾可以從不同國畫中的人物、山水、花鳥，以至其用筆、着墨彩、結構佈局及鑑藏等各方面，學習欣賞傳統中國繪畫藝術之道，並窺探古人的內心寄托及理想世界。

以上三個階段主題核心是「看得見」，傳統文化不是高高在上，而是在大家日常生活中，主辦單位只是把這些東西挖掘出來，讓大家看見。定調定位非常之親切貼地。

配合網上世界的時代潮流及多媒體應用程式科技，「看得見的記憶」亦開發了一共十個多媒體互動應用程式，如：「全盒AR」、「四合院AR」、「如果有山水VR‧AR」等，分別配合虛擬實境（Virtual Reality, VR）及擴增實境（Augmented Reality, AR）技術，讓公眾寓學習於遊戲。程式玩家可以瞬間化身成古人，學習從古人的思考角度出發，為自己設計扇子或花園，甚至成為四合院的住客，十分有趣。一邊玩一邊吸收中國傳統文化知識，自己心領神會，而非墨守成規的灌輸。

「看得見的記憶」製作不同主題的教材套，包括有導師手冊、教學簡報、工作紙及多媒體素材等。而早前在全港學校停課期間，計劃更推出網絡教育工作坊，為參與學校提供網上學習支援。因此，計劃三年以來都得到全港多間學校及教導相關學科的老師的喜愛，積極參與各種教育活動。

三年的計劃中，公眾亦可以從多種途徑參與「看得見的記憶」計劃，例如第一、二階段的《全家福》、《器物等等》及《築福》公眾展覽，以及疫情限制社交距離，主辦單位推出「掌上校園」及「桌上展覽館」展覽模型套裝，把展覽送到學界及非牟利機構，得到參與者的好評。「看得見的記憶」更一直透過社交媒體如Facebook和Instagram專頁，提供延伸知識平台，介紹古今中外的文化藝術知識及趣聞，啟發大家自習興趣。