Exploring The Eco Pedagogy Of An Urban Eco Tourism Hill Path Design

The eco-tourism hill path engineering design located in a metropolitan area always faces the conflict between the need to satisfy strong recreation needs and the need to protect the ecology from a negative impact as well as the question of how it can be comprised across different kinds of value systems. In order to uncover the different value systems hidden in different disciplines, and to determine how it affects sustainable design judgment, an experimental exercise was designed in the course of construction technology education. An urbanized eco-tourism hill path design near Taipei 101 was designated as the exercise topic, and the team’s members engaged in the exercise came from different disciplines included: landscape architecture, urban design, and civil engineering. Results of the exercise showed that there are two driving forces related to the value judging base: recreation needs and ecological concerns of environmental bio-diversity, which affected the engineering design decision. By examining the dilemma of these two elements in the value judging base, the paper argues that we need to re-examine the procedure and methodology of the urbanized hill eco-path engineering design. To achieve the optimal solution for an eco-engineering project, the concept of multi-disciplinary participatory design processes with a generalist base of engineering pedagogy, was finally proposed.