Jingpu Village, Liujia District, Tainan City
Current LocationJingpu Village, Liujia District, Tainan City Across urban communities and rural areas in southern Taiwan, challenges such as population aging, rural transformation, and urban–rural disconnection are unfolding simultaneously and in interconnected ways. The project engages in these contexts through long-term field presence, working alongside aging communities and rural stakeholders through embedded support and practice-based education to address issues rooted in everyday life.
In both urban and rural communities in Tainan, older adults participate in weekly activity programs. Through drumming exercises, physical training, and the reestablishment of daily routines, they not only improve their physical capacity but also gradually regain a sense of rhythm in life and confidence in social interaction. At the same time, through podcasts and audio documentation, seniors begin to share their life experiences, fostering intergenerational dialogue and mutual understanding.
In rural areas, whether young people remain in their hometowns is closely tied to the strength of local support networks rather than individual choice alone. In response, field coordinators and young farmers have come together to form a co-learning platform, the “Farmers’ Box Network,” connecting producers across regions and crops while building collaborative relationships centered on sustainable farming. Through shared learning and exchange, they accumulate knowledge and gradually develop collective approaches to marketing and advocacy, transforming previously fragmented individuals into a connected and action-oriented community. On this basis, relationships between production, everyday life, and community are being reorganized, giving rise to a rural co-living model that supports aging in place.
Between urban and rural contexts, initiatives such as the “Food Exchange Lab” reconnect people with land and food systems, from production to the dining table. These interactions go beyond transactions, becoming processes of understanding and shared experience. Meanwhile, different senior micro-communities engage in dialogue through podcasts, and emerging field stations are gradually becoming collaborative bases where students and local partners work together.
Rather than a one-directional intervention, the Go-Together Project embeds itself within everyday life contexts, co-developing democratic community collectives with local partners. Through continuous interaction between academic settings and field practice, it cultivates “interactive professionals” capable of bridging knowledge and action.
Building on this foundation, the project focuses on three key domains—holistic health, resilient rural development, and urban–rural linkages—while connecting with partners in Japan, Singapore, Thailand, and Indonesia. By translating local experiences into transnational dialogue and co-creation, the project seeks to develop practice-based approaches to complex societal challenges.