Gardens and the Environment in East Asia
A Virtual Live and Asynchronous Learning Event for K-14 Teachers
November 13-21, 2020
Compare and contrast garden cultures and sustainability through lectures and virtual 'visits' to China, Japan and Korea. The backbone of this trek takes participants from home sites in the U.S. to classical Asian gardens. As aesthetically designed outdoor spaces, traditional gardens occupied different types of space for different user groups—among them being imperial hunting parks, royal gardens, temple grounds, courtyards, and scholar estates. Today’s conceptions of garden, however, must negotiate dramatic social, agricultural and urban change. This workshop attempts to balance 'visits' to historical sites with newly conceived iterations on gardens as well as challenges posed by sustainability in the modern world.
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Coordinated by the Center for Japanese Studies, the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, and the Nam Center for Korean Studies at the University of Michigan with support from Title VI.
Archived workshop materials are available for educators upon request. Please contact eastasiaoutreach@umich.edu for further information.
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