The sound of children's voices from deciduous landscape roads and famous old buildings publicizes the civilized viewing and reading of the humanistic reading on street corners, so that a fashionable neighborhood carrying the context of "the source of the Sea School" is full of love and warmth and civilized fashion. "If the Wukang Building could talk, what would it say?" On December 5, the "International Volunteer Day", under the cover of Wukang Road, there was a loud sound of children, and a volunteer team with an average age of 12 years old came to volunteer to explain the history of Wukang Building, Huangxing Former Residence, Ba Jin Former Residence, Midan Apartment and other buildings, attracting many pedestrians to "read" together.
"Wukang Road is 1,083 meters long, but overlooking the entire block, old buildings are lined up one after another." Zhou Peiyuan, one of the first batch of "Architecture Readable" publicity ambassadors in Shanghai and co-founder of "Volunteering with the Most Beautiful People" in Xuhui District, as a leading teacher, together with Tao Yunfei, head of the "Old Kele Humanistic Reading Volunteer Salon" of Hunan community residents, led the children to "walk and explain", further spread the urban context, cultivate the spirit of volunteerism, advocate a new style of civilization, and build a spiritual home together. "The revitalization and utilization of old buildings also lies in inheriting the cultural memory and context of the city."
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- "Old Land" tells the story of the historical changes of old buildings -
Many of the children in the volunteer team were once the small listeners of Tao Yunfei, the "Old Keler Humanities Reading Volunteer".
The 77-year-old Tao Yunfei's feelings for Wukang Road seem to be innate. He grew up living in Wuyuan Road, and the area around Wukang Road became the only way for him to go to school and work. Therefore, for the century-old architecture here, he has a number of treasures: the British classical garden residence At No. 393 Wukang Road, the Midan Apartment of the bionic building "Elephant House", and even the sycamore trees in front of the door... These light and shadow memories that exist in old photos "are homes that I have never left for me."
12 years ago, Hunan Street Community School held an "Excellent Historical Architecture and Humanities Class", attracting a group of "old land" like Tao Yunfei: classroom learning, listening to lectures, visiting old buildings... In the past, trivial observations and experiences have been systematically studied and shared with everyone with more confidence. After the end of the course, the elderly who were reluctant to disband simply set up the "Old Keler Humanities Reading Volunteer Salon" to continue to excavate the stories behind the old buildings and tell them to the children and white-collar workers in the jurisdiction.
"In addition to the cultural history of the neighborhood, I will also talk about the changes here, the changes in the Wukang Building in recent years - from wireless in the sky to scenery on the ground, new spaces and new formats downstairs have gathered one after another." Tao Yunfei said.
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- Elementary school students take the baton and step up the "practical exercise" -
"Just now we saw the Wukang Building, if it is a giant ship, then the Cape Town apartment is a small sailing ship..." Zhao Guanyu, who was in the fourth grade of the world's primary school, said it in a similar way.
Like Zhao Guanyu, many children were initially just listeners of old architectural stories, and now they have taken over the baton.
Recently, Hunan Subdistrict established the "Wutong Huiyi" Aesthetic Education Alliance, which integrates resources such as Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center, Zhongfuhui Children's Art Theater, Ba Jin Former Residence, And Ke Ling's Former Residence, and more than 20 art courses with seven themes benefit kindergartens, primary schools and middle schools, and radiate the youth of the jurisdiction. Among them, the "Architecture Can Read" theme series of courses is quite popular with children.
Volunteers from the community's humanistic reading volunteer team led the children into the community to carry out the "Mobile Museum" and "Old Kele with Nong Road" and other characteristic reading architecture humanistic walks, guiding minors to improve their aesthetic literacy in deep integration with the neighborhood and growing together.
"I also want to share it with more people." With the in-depth understanding of the neighborhood, Ding Jiakun, a fifth-grade student at Aiju Elementary School, turned his love into a desire to tell. The child's voice becomes a reality. Hunan Street has fully integrated the "Wutong Huiyi" aesthetic education alliance into the civilized practice of the new era, created a youth volunteer service platform, and gradually cultivated a team of "student humanities reading volunteers".
Under the guidance of Zhou Peiyuan and other professional forces, the children stepped up the "practical exercises", passed on the city's cultural memory and context through voluntary explanations, and "guarded" the historical buildings with practical actions.
According to the relevant staff of Hunan Street, next, the volunteer reading activity will also form a long-term mechanism, focusing on the all-round development of young people, and everyone can share the humanistic and beautiful life under the plane tree.
(Source: Wenming Xuhui, Wen Wei Po, "Shanghai Xuhui" WeChat public account)