The Haja Center is a culture factory that is operated by the Center for Youth and Cultural Studies of Yonsei University upon the entrustment of the Seoul Metropolitan Government. The official name of the Center is The Youth Factory for Alternative Culture, but we just call it the Haja Center, Haja means Lets do it in Korean. Ha-ha-ha-ha, Haja! Lets do it! Laugh pleasantly!
Lets do something interesting, something we'd like.
There are various projects going on at the Haja Center. Youths can choose and participate in whatever project they are interested in and that they would like to try by themselves. In the process, they teach and learn from each other at the same time.
Base-camp HAJA
The Haja Center is a learning place where youth can gain experience very differently from what they may have in school systems. The Youth Factory for Alternative Culture functions as a base-camp that connects various activities with workplaces. youth(Youths) can learn enthusiasm and know-how directly from The Young and Youthful Committee, composed of experts from various fields.
Pandori and HAJA
We call our staffs as Pandori. They are the people who actually work out project plans, trying very hard to come up with project ideas and working on them day and night. They will proceed and participate in the projects, moving around to help you out with your work.
Lets Do It on Equal Basis
At Haja, nobody is discriminated for ones age, sex, academic background, or place of origin. People at Haja, however, will accept and respect the wide range of experience and depth of thinking each individual possesses.
Haja Factory
The true hub of the Haja Center is the workshop, or the factory. The factory serves as a place where people can get first-hand experience, so as to nurture their sensitivity to live in the era of culture and to create a new life style. At the factory, there are people called Pandori, an operator of the factory. They are all experts of their own fields. In addition to their own projects, they work on co-projects with the teenagers of the factory. Teenagers here learn skills and a sense of work while participating in the projects led by Pandoris. There are five factories at the Haja Center. Projects go on at each of the five factories and some of them are inter-factory, cooperative ones.
Image Design Factory
Projects of the Image Design Factory are mainly centered around the following fields: video taping, animation, image mixing, and special effects. The Image Design Factory not only provides education in basic skills but also works on inter-factory projects. It is currently carrying out a music video project in cooperation with the Popular Music Factory. The Image Design Factory also does practical projects such as the image recording of center activities, producing promotional materials, and running the internet broadcasting station of TV-tong.
Web Factory
The core projects of this factory are web designing, programming, and web DB application. In addition to teaching basic skills, the Web Factory carries out inter-factory projects to make web pages containing each factorys activities, creating and managing web sites of the factories as well as the home page of the Center.
Pop Music Factory
Projects of the Pop Music Factory are as follows: exploring popular music, coining ones own language, forming bands, studio recording, and manufacturing albums. In addition to teaching basic skills, the Factory also carries out inter-factory projects and provides opportunities to practice the recording work for external bands and album-producing work. The factory runs Haja 999 Club and internal radio broadcasting systems.
Visual Art Design Factory
Art in Everyday Life is the main concept of the Visual Art Design Factory. Through a project called Lets develop our designing sense, one can learn basic skills and raise sensitivity simultaneously. Each project produces useful items like visiting cards, diaries, and T-shirts of their own dying and designing. The Visual Art Design Factory is in charge of the art directing for designing space of the Center and the promotional materials.
Civil Culture Factory
The Civil Culture Factory is a factory for fostering a public mind. The Factory works to connect activities of each factory with civil society and do various planning works for communities in addition to carrying out cooperative works with external citizens organizations. The Festival Planning Team of the Civil Culture Factory plans and executes annual activities of the Haja 999 Club.
Haja Open University
The Haja Open University is an alternative school for youths who wish to work in a creative field. The University is currently making plans to create a learning space appropriate in an internet era, and is making curriculum contents most suitable to the post-modern environment through the self-motivated-learning and the Council for Autonomy. Those who have been with the University will be equipped with abilities of self-managing and self- planning as well as public minds required to get along with others. They are the citizens of post-modern era who will enrich living conditions of their communities. To these people, life itself is the most important project they have to stage.
Network Campus
The campus of the Haja Collegio is networks. The Haja Collegio aims to become a base-camp to construct networks and make the world itself a learning place. Networking all the possible resources together, people here are trying to construct the infrastructure that provides whatever resources available to whoever wants them no matter where that person may be. (Participate in the Haja Collegio you're your enthusiasm and resources!)
An off-line campus is being created under the School Rebuilding Project, led by the Haja Center in Seoul. An off-line workshop that can be used freely by about 50 youths are being prepared together with an on-line learning space.
The goal of the on-line campus is to apply learning activities of the Haja Collegio directly on the internet and have as many youths as possible participate in it regardless of time and space. The on-line campus is a campus community that exists on the internet. It is currently under construction.
Components of the Haja Collegio
1. Council for Autonomy
The Council for Autonomy is the core of the Haja Collegio. It is a rare occasion which all the members of the University are required to attend. At the Council, people decide on the rules and regulations, adjust their schedules, and comment on each others work.
2. Selective Courses
Courses that are offered at the Haja Collegio are largely categorized into two: Life and Thought and Life and Action. The courses are constantly developed and upgraded by the participants of the University. The courses offered currently include Compiling On-line Sentence Dictionary, Getting Aquatinted with the English Culture through English Language, Book Reading Club to Find Myself, Introduction to Cultural Anthropology: Estranging You and I, and Art Gallery Attacking Incident.
3. Special Lecture Series
This series provides opportunities to learn know-how of life from experts of various fields including a master of meta studies who argues One Book is Enough, and an idea-packed cook. These are the persons everybody wants to meet again even after a long time. This series is provided in an effort to build network campus of the Haja Collegio where students and experts, and universities and society stimulate each other.
4. Self-Study
The Self-Study is an extended learning program operated under the tutorial system of the Haja Collegio. The programs are adjusted to the ability and interest of each individual. When a person presents his area of interest at the Council for Autonomy, he is connected with a tutor through the University network. It usually takes a form of man-to-man tutoring or small group seminar.
5. Operation of Cafe
At the Haja Collegio, we can physically experience the era we live in. The cafe of the Haja Collegio will soon be open and provide a space for various kinds of physical activities, from Korean traditional arts like mask dance and instruments for folk music to western contemporary arts.
6. Projects
Students of the Haja Collegio carry out projects individually or jointly. Projects of the Haja Collegio are largely divided into three kinds: the Haja Factory Project for participating in the factories of the Center, the External Internship Project for getting first-hand experience in fields of interest from experts, and the Graduation Project for the completion of the courses of study.
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