Designing Assistive Devices for Sacred Palanquin Carriers: A Glocalization Community Design
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Ying-Hsun Chen; Ming-Chyuan Ho
- Source
- Sustainability
Volume 12
Issue 8
Sustainability, Vol 12, Iss 3253, p 3253 (2020)
- Subject
- Glocalization
event
lcsh:TJ807-830
Geography, Planning and Development
Internet privacy
lcsh:Renewable energy sources
010501 environmental sciences
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
01 natural sciences
Community design
Task (project management)
community design
0502 economics and business
glocalization
lcsh:Environmental sciences
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
lcsh:GE1-350
Local culture
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
Event (computing)
business.industry
lcsh:Environmental effects of industries and plants
05 social sciences
Questionnaire
sustainability
lcsh:TD194-195
religion
Protective vest
Business
local culture
050203 business & management
globalization
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2071-1050
New knowledge and technology brought about by globalization can be applied to revitalize local cultures in innovative ways. It can start with glocalization community design to sustain unique traditional events so as to energize the community. The paper proposes a study on designing assistive devices for exclusive palanquin carriers for a local religious event. Field investigation, questionnaire survey, and in-depth interviews were adopted to design appropriate assistive devices for palanquin carriers. This design used shoulder protectors to reduce the pain of the palanquin carriers. It is recommended that the palanquin carriers wear a shoulder protective vest with a protector applied to each shoulder to share the weight of the palanquin to maintain a good physical condition so as to facilitate the completion of the event. The task is to develop a protective vest that the palanquin carriers love to wear and will become the focus of attention in the detouring. The designed protective vest could attract more young people to participate in the event, that is how the aging problem could be solved. It is the first but important step to resolve the aging crisis of the event.