This one-day immersive workshop in collaboration with Wild Fruits Community, was designed for children aged 6–12 and their families on Manshuan Island, situated in the middle of Taihu Lake in Jiangsu Province, China. The island was chosen for its rural, natural, and picturesque environment, removed from the everyday urban environments of the mainland cities surrounding Taihu Lake. The workshop is conceived as an immersive, site-based ecological listening and drawing experience. Rather than treating the island as a backdrop, the project treats it as a living classroom and a source of sensory knowledge. Children and families explore the terrain together, attuning to the nuances of the island’s soundscape—birds, insects, water, wind, vegetation, and human presence—and then translate those auditory experiences into abstract marks. Flowers and vegetation are integrated into the drawings so that the visual traces remain materially connected to the island’s ecology.

The continuous scroll is central to the concept: it echoes sound as something temporal, moving, and flowing rather than fixed. The “sound map” is therefore not a conventional map of locations but an experiential record of listening. Finally, by returning the finished drawings to the island environment, the workshop turns the landscape itself into an exhibition space. The installation is completed through children’s interaction, so the project moves full circle: from environment to listening, from listening to mark-making, and from mark-making back into the environment.