1. Research Goals and Methods

❚ Research Goals

￮ This study aimed to 1) shed insight into the characteristics and value of agricultural heritage, 2) explore ways to systematically preserve and utilize living heritage, and 3) create a main hub, tentatively named the “National Agricultural Heritage Center” (NAHC), and develop related operational roadmaps to embody this lofty concept. 

❚ Research Methods

￮ We researched and analyzed previous studies on agricultural heritage along with relevant laws, ordinances, institutions, policies, and project data and materials. 

￮ Additionally, we identified key considerations for master planning by analyzing agricultural heritage systems both domestically and internationally, coupled with related theories and strategies. 

￮ We also conducted expert surveys to craft strategies for preserving and utilizing agricultural heritage and create primary function-specific content. 

2. Conclusions and Policy Recommendations

❚ Promoting the value of agricultural heritage and diversifying its functions

￮ Create versatile spaces and develop support systems that allow agricultural heritage to extend beyond simple food production, fulfilling various social, environmental, cultural, and industrial roles, while enhancing public value

￮ Social functions: facilitating community maintenance and cultural transmission through records and exhibitions; environmental functions: serving as a repository for scenic agriculture, research on environmental preservation, such as climate acclimatization and biodiversity, and related educational experiences; cultural functions: playing an integral role in recording, preserving, and reinterpreting traditional farming methods and farmers’ lives and fostering inter-community collaboration and exchange; industrial functions: fueling new growth engines through the convergence of traditional agricultural systems and cutting-edge technologies

❚ Modernizing living agricultural heritage

￮ Build an ecomuseum and its integrated network to preserve and utilize agricultural heritage, emphasizing resident participation, regional identity, and ecological sustainability

￮ Establish a living museum of agricultural heritage, functioning as an immersive educational space that showcases traditional production methods, lifestyles, festivals, and rituals. 

￮ Incorporate the living lab concept with agricultural heritage to accelerate regional revitalization, providing a platform to tackle real-life challenges and demonstrate the modern potential of agricultural heritage.       

❚ Establishing a main hub dedicated to preserving and utilizing agricultural heritage 

￮ Effectively manage and utilize the NAHC to leverage agricultural heritage’s multifunctionality, unique systems, and environmental and landscape significance, ultimately creating new value.

￮ Design the NAHC to distinguish Jeonbuk State as the capital of the agricultural and life industry, while encouraging visitors to explore and engage with the agricultural heritage of the past, present, and future in an enjoyable and informative setting. 

­Identify key national (global) agricultural heritage systems as core resources, focusing on their conservation and utility. 

­Integrate agricultural heritage with cutting-edge technologies to develop it into an agricultural and life industry that creates new value. 

❚ Formulating Jeonbuk State’s agricultural heritage hub strategy

￮ Leverage a hub model that enables Jeonbuk State to combine traditional agricultural heritage with the innovative agricultural and life industry and build effective systems to manage agricultural heritage scattered across the nation.

￮ Core zones: symbolic spaces, control towers, and operational hubs of agricultural heritage

￮ Satellite zones: hubs for preserving and utilizing agricultural heritage in the form of an ecomuseum, operating in tandem with core zones while maintaining the independence and regionality of agricultural heritage and ecological culture 

￮ Networked systems: operating systems for organic national and international links and value diffusion

❚ Function-specific content and operational roadmaps

￮ Planning and exhibition: content organization based on the concept that agricultural heritage is a way of life and a knowledge system formed through the co-evolution of humans and nature. 

­Create an outdoor exhibition zone (embodying globally important agricultural heritage systems); an indoor interpreter zone (theme-specific spaces that facilitate understanding of agricultural systems’ concept and context); and spaces for educational experiences, events, and local food.

­Structure a circular tour course and connect theme-specific spaces to illustrate the evolution of agricultural systems (from the origin to the future). 

￮ Educational experience: participatory learning and experiential spaces that help visitors gain exposure to agricultural systems, become familiarized with them, and learn how to pass them down

­Experience-driven immersive learning, customized and integrated curriculum, resident participation in governance, and open learning platforms for real-life issues

￮ Research: systematic discovery of agricultural heritage, scientific approach, and reexamination of the value inherent in efficient preservation and utilization

­Discovery of agricultural heritage and field research, construction of a database, systematic research on agricultural systems, and brainstorming and ideation

￮ Exchange and support: on-site support for managing, preserving, and utilizing agricultural heritage across the nation, and the facilitation of domestic and international exchanges

­Agricultural heritage on-site support centers (ecomuseum design centers) for promoting regional brands, increasing farm income, and activating domestic and international networks 

￮ Rest and healing: spaces for rest and healing created from agricultural heritage-specific landscape resources   

­Diverse spaces for experiencing and empathizing with the development of agriculture, appreciating scenic nature, gaining exposure to traditional and lifestyle culture, and relaxing 

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