Summary: | 碩士 === 中國文化大學 === 景觀學系碩士班 === 94 === Interpretive signage is the most used interpretive media; it’s also the important agency between human and environment of environmental education system. It could guide tourism to look and observe the environmental phenomenon, to admonish tourist the softy and manage information betimes and to inspire the behavior of environmental protection. It’s an important approach to carry out the environmental sustainable management and eco-tourism.
In Taiwan, the resource of the mountain and forest is richness. People could walk into the forest through the trail system. Besides recreation, the trail’s valuations also include environmental experience, landscape and interpretation. So, the trail system needs completely software and hardware facility.
At present, interpretive signage only operated by basic theory, that absence distinct process of planning and design. What the interpretive resource is almost subject the designer’s cognizance. Therefore, the research reviewed the theory and method of interpretive signage first and to build the practical process that used on Fencihu-Rueili historic trail in Chai-Yi county.
The research join aged person and interpreter of community, administrator and mountain patrol of trail system in the field survey, that conduced to dominate the feature of the trails’ resource and management demand. In the planning phase, the research applied GPS to set the position of interpretive site, and decided the theme, panel’s size, support’s form of interpretive signage. In the design phase, the process included writing content, editing pictures and writing, choosing the material of panels and supports that performed the feature and background of trails. The study is being the critical reference for the scheming and designing steps whereas it is also presents the designing process of the diversified interpreting subjects and outlines the decision flow chart of the design planning for interpretive signage. Furthermore, it is suggested that the study shall be more involved in the aspects of the volume of interpreting words, preferences of reader, color analysis, construction costs, the user’s evaluation and the material development as the future direction.
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