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Decommissioned Taipei school is transformed into creative learning center (2014/03/14)

Taipei’s Minglun Elementary School was recently decommissioned due to a decline in the school-aged population. The Paper Windmill Cultural Foundation has taken over this facility and transformed it into a creative learning center complete with colorful murals and stimulating activities.

Walking into what appears to be a forest habitat, models of Formosan clouded leopards appear. This is actually an abandoned classroom of Minglun Elementary School. There are other places like it.

Also, the walls of this classroom have been covered with whiteboards, allowing children the chance to draw and decorate the walls

Ren Jian-cheng
Paper Windmill Foundation
Children encounter animals and bugs in their everyday life. Here we take these topics and let them experience a different type of drama which can stimulate imagination and physical play.

Liu Wei-gong
Taipei Dep’t of Cultural Affairs
Taipei has 12 different administrative districts, and each one has given empty classrooms to designers. The designers must teach children and help schools design classroom spaces.

Over the next three years, Taipei expects to see a decline of 11 percent in elementary school students. The municipal government is enlisting artistic groups to enter decommissioned schools and give them new life.

創造力學園

去年因為少子化學生不足而廢校的台北市明倫國小，由紙風車文教基金會，改造成全台灣第一座「創造力學園」，原本廢棄的教室，改造成栩栩如生的海洋教室，還有把白板舖在牆壁上，讓小朋友可以任意作畫。

像是走進叢林一般，好幾隻台灣雲豹模型映入眼簾，栩栩如生，這裡是由廢棄的明倫國小教室，改建成的「雲豹森林」，像這樣的教室，還不只一間。

還有把教室牆面通通舖上白板，讓小朋友可以天馬行空，恣意作畫。

[[紙風車文教基金會副執行長任建誠]]
孩子們生活當中所接觸到的，動物跟昆蟲為議題，讓他們再去做不一樣的戲劇、想像力、肢體的發揮。

[[北市文化局局長劉維公]]
台北市有12個行政區，我們都有教室空出來給設計工作者，進駐的設計師必須幫小孩子上課，幫學校設計校園的空間。

少子化衝擊，台北市預估三年後，國小學生人數又會再減少11%，市府還會邀請各多藝術家進駐閒置的校園，繼續化腐朽為神奇。