Promoting Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) with Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU)
One of our pipeline projects is to engage young people to advocate for Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) in Hong Kong. By encouraging creative reinterpretations of ICH, we help students explore and understand their cultural roots by appreciating our traditions and history. This allows them to retell our shared past, connect it with our present, and explore various creative possibilities for social impact.
We are delighted to have our first group of students from HKBU advocating for one of the ICH items - the milk tea making technique - through a family story in the form of Visual Novel (VN). This learning experience was co-created with The Language Center of HKBU and aims to explore the history and context of milk tea making, engage students in digital storytelling in an authentic manner, and raise awareness among young people about Hong Kong-style milk tea making as an ICH item.
Our goal is to continue working with students in higher education, collaborating with them to make community impact even after they complete their own learning experience. With continuous support in research and knowledge from higher education institutions, we hope to engage more student groups in different creative projects, learning and advocating for more ICH items (there are total of 480 in the inventory). This kind of support and collaboration will also enable us to curate a wider range of creative and cross-disciplinary learning experiences for our target younger students in schools and NGOs in Hong Kong.
