TAIPEI, Taiwan, June 22, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- As part of the
World Design Capital (WDC) Taipei
2016, Taiwan's capital city is
hosting a series of forums, workshops, and exhibitions in
celebration of World Industrial Design Day (WIDD). The 2016 theme,
Youth in Design, aims to highlight the role the next generation of
designers will play as they face the challenges of the 21st
century.
World Industrial Design Day is held annually on June 29. Created in 2007 by the International
Council of Societies of Industrial Design (Icsid), which this year
celebrates its 50th anniversary, WIDD aims to promote awareness of
the industrial design profession and highlight its impact on an
economic, social, cultural, and environmental level.
"World Industrial Design Day is not simply an opportunity to
celebrate the impact of design on our everyday lives, but also to
take stock of our current situation and forge a path toward a
better future," says Pei-ni Beatrice
Hsieh, Commissioner of the Department of Cultural Affairs of
the Taipei City Government. "Like all major cities around the
world, Taipei faces many
challenges in the decades ahead. Finding solutions to these
problems is the task of the emerging generation of innovative
designers, and we see World Industrial Design Day, along with other
initiatives taking place as part of WDC Taipei 2016, as a chance to
inspire and support them."
An exhibition called The Square is born of a collaboration
between established designers Gina
Hsu of Dong Hai Hospital Design Studio (DHHs) and Bing-Hong
Zhong of Archicake Design, and young design graduates of Cheng Kung
University and Shih Chien University. Tackling the WDC Taipei 2016
core concept of "Adaptive City: Design in Motion," the project
showcases young designers' innovations in sustainability, and
encourages visitors to rethink their attitudes to so-called waste
materials.
Featuring three projects, Plastic X Unwanted Everyday Objects,
the LEAVES Recycling Plan, and the Static Flow Paper Recycling
Plan, the exhibition will run from Friday,
June 24, until Thursday, June
30, in two locations: the front courtyard outside the Taipei
Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA) and the Shin Kong Mitsukoshi
Xiangti Boulevard in Xinyi District.
A series of three dedicated WIDD events will be held in West 1
Brick House, Huashan 1914 Creative Park on Saturday, June 25. The day will kick off with two
workshops entitled Gone Too Soon! by Luc & Manon, from
10AM-1PM and 2-5PM. Tackling the issue of electronic waste,
Dutch social designers Luc and Manon van
Hoeckel will demonstrate how to disassemble "single"
products into countless tiny components in an attempt to redefine
people's perceptions of damaged objects.
From 3-4.30PM, members of local
design studio Renato Lab will speak
to a gathered audience on the topic, "When the End Signifies a New
Start: Rethinking the Concept of 'Environmentally Friendly."
REnato Lab founders Jackie Wang and Henry
Hsiao are firm believers in the circular economy concept.
During their talk, they will dissect the usage of the term
"environmentally friendly" and inspire audience members to reassess
the true environmental impact of commonly-used materials.
Lastly, from 7-9PM, the
Design-aholic Night will bring together seven influential Taiwanese
designers from various design disciplines and one special guest.
Audience members will gain insight into the transformation of
Taipei from the perspectives of
social design, environmental design, city aesthetics, and
industrial design. Participants include Gina Hsu, Project Manager of Dong Hai Hospital
Studio; Chun-Hao Liao, Founder of
Taiwan Designers' Week; Yu-Ru Chou, Founder of Agua Design;
Chen-Fu Yang, Founder of 5% Design
Action; Momo Huang, Founder of
OurCityLove Social Enterprise; Kate
Hsu, Taiwan Founder of Design for Change; and Tomic Wu, Founder of Tomic Design Studio.
Other events in the World Industrial Design Day Taipei program
include Tapping and Hammering, an experiential design workshop that
allows children and parents to transform waste materials into art.
Held by the Creative Reuse Center and Lovely Taiwan Foundation, the
event will take place at the Taiwan Airforce Base on Saturday, July 2, from 10–12AM. On Saturday, July 2, from 2.30-4PM at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum
Auditorium, Masahiko Kimura,
Executive Director of leading Japanese visual communication design
studio GK Design, will speak to the public on his firm's recent
redesign of the Tokyo Metro
signage, a precursor to the Taipei City Government's plans to
redevelop the signage in the local metro system.
To round off the WIDD series, on Friday,
July 8, from 10.30-12AM,
Assemble, a cross-disciplinary team of artists, architects, and
designers from the UK, will hold a presentation called "Spatial
Disturbances - Actions for Assembly" at the Auditorium of the
Taipei Fine Arts Museum. Assemble, who won the Turner Prize in 2015
for a council housing regeneration project in Liverpool, will talk
about their experiences collaborating with local residents and
injecting life into vacant urban spaces.
For more information on WIDD events and to register for talks
and workshops, visit: https://www.facebook.com/taipeidesign/ or
http://wdc2016.taipei/.
Four major World Design Capital Taipei 2016 events take place in
October, making it another key month for design enthusiasts to mark
in this year's travel calendar. Three of the four International
Signature Events -- the International Design House Exhibition,
International Design Week Forum, and International Design Policy
Conference -- are open to the public, and attendees can sign up on
the WDC Taipei 2016 website in August: http://wdc2016.taipei/. The
fourth event, the Network of Cities Meeting, is a closed event that
will be attended by invited city representatives and urban design
professionals from around the world.
About WDC Taipei 2016
"Adaptive City -- Design in Motion" was Taipei City's core concept in its 2015
application to host World Design Capital 2016. How can we apply
innovative "design thinking" practices to overcome the constraints
that limited resources place on our city's development, pursue
continual change in our urban governance, create happiness in the
lives of our citizens--providing them with a better quality of life
in a more livable, forward-looking city? These are the goals for
Taipei City. 2016 marks the beginning of an evolution for
Taipei, where we will take
advantage of the potential in change by "Engaging Communities,"
"Connecting Information," and "Revitalizing the City." For more
information on WDC Taipei 2016, visit the official website
(http://wdc2016.taipei/) or follow on Facebook
(https://www.facebook.com/taipeidesign/).
About World Design Capital
World Design Capital® (WDC) is designated by Icsid every two
years to recognize a city's innovative use of design for economic,
social and cultural development and to showcase effective
design-led urban revitalization strategies that other cities can
benefit from. Past cities to hold the WDC title include
Torino (Italy) in 2008, Seoul (South
Korea) in 2010, Helsinki
(Finland) in 2012, and
Cape Town (South Africa) 2014. Taipei (Taiwan) is this year's WDC, and Mexico City has just been named WDC 2018. For
more information, please visit
http://www.worlddesigncapital.com.
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