11.2) Support of arts and heritage

Our Tamsui campus has always been an open campus without walls. Currently, the plant green coverage rate is 13.18%. We are actively implementing the transformation from a campus park to a campus garden, allowing community residents and visitors to freely enter and exit on foot for rest or exercise. The Lanyang campus is located in the famous hot spring tourist area of Yilan, with a large area of vegetation and beautiful views of the sea from the heights. Visitors are also allowed to enter for sightseeing with a pass.

The Tamsui campus has many buildings and spaces with distinctive features and historical significance, open to the public for visitation. Art centers, showrooms, and the Maritime Museum's exhibition space holds various themed exhibitions from time to time, conveying concepts of environmental protection, marine, and aesthetic education. Many works of art are also displayed in the public spaces on campus.

There are 35 historic sites and historical buildings in the Tamsui district. Our teachers and students are actively involved in the recording and preservation of these valuable cultural heritages. TKU pioneered the local study called “Tamsuiology,” which means research and investigations of Tamsui on topics including history and humanities, natural ecology, literature and art, historical sites and architecture, urban-rural differences, urban planning and development in Tamsui. The research field is the Tamsui River Basin (roughly covering the entire northern Taiwan) in a broad sense or the present-day Tamsui area of New Taipei City in a narrow sense. By filming documentaries, publishing magazines, and constructing a digital art and humanity co-writing platform called “Tamsui Wiki,” the school is endeavoring to create a great and smart Tamsui community.

TKU strives to create an environmentally friendly and ecological campus, providing community residents with sports and leisure spaces, and a high-quality learning environment for outdoor teaching in local primary and secondary schools. The Maritime Museum, the art centers, the library, and the greenery campuses are all open to the community free of charge. Through the designation of environmental education fields, the school actively builds the campus to become an environmental education base for primary and secondary schools in the North Coast region to visit and study. In this action, teachers and students assisted in planning and setting up sustainable campuses in the Tamsui area, helped to obtain funds, and moved towards the construction of a sustainable environmental network in Tamsui. The school provides art exhibitions and activities regularly, which are usually open to the public free of charge. The school also runs a TV channel and a Tamkang Voice radio channel, where the team of teachers and students of the school produces high-quality programs, reports on related issues, and promotes arts and cultural preservation.
• 11.2.1) Public access to buildings
  Provide public access to buildings and/or monuments or natural heritage landscapes of cultural significance.
• 11.2.2) Public access to libraries
  Provide public access to libraries including books and publications.
• 11.2.3) Public access to museums
  Provide public access to museums, exhibition spaces or galleries, or works of art and artefacts.
• 11.2.4) Public access to green spaces
  Provide free public access to open spaces and green spaces.
• 11.2.5) Arts and heritage contribution
  Contribute to local arts, in terms of number of annual public performances of university choirs, theatre groups, orchestras etc.
• 11.2.6) Record and preserve cultural heritage
  Deliver projects to record and preserve intangible cultural heritage such as local folklore, traditions, language, and knowledge.