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In Asian countries where Buddhism and Taoism are mainstream religions, incense burning is a daily practice. Taiwan has the largest religious population in the world, and the ritual culture, especially in Minnan, hinders carbon reduction and impacts the environment negatively. In previous studies, the temple's carbon-reducing behaviors have not been dealt with seriously. Thus, we explored the relationship between the public and the temple's carbon-reducing behaviors under internal and external pr...

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Designing cultural goods is meaningful in connecting experiences, memories, and emotions and evoking resonance. The design imbues cultural, historical, and national symbolic emotions with products. Such products induce people's psychological responses through sensory tension and a thematic atmosphere, stimulating consumers’ desire to purchase. By exploring the imagery of Taiwan's unique cultural elements, we investigated how designed products expressed these elements, transforming them into tang...

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The conflict between energy and ecological issues in Taiwan was explored to find how the coexistence relationship among humans, ecology, and energy could be obtained. To raise more awareness of ecological issues, public furniture was chosen as a medium to review this concept. We took Taoyuan's algal reefs and a natural gas receiving station as representatives of ecological issues and researched the balanced relationship between humans, ecology, and energy. Through a questionnaire survey, the res...