As Taipei bids for World Design Capital in 2016, the city’s Department of Cultural Affairs is hosting a variety of design exhibitions. Focused on the city’s residents, and emphasizing the idea that everyone is a designer, the 2013 Taiwan Design Expo X Taipei Design & City Exhibition (2013台湾设计展暨台北设计城市展) will run to September 29th at Songshan Cultural and Creative Park (松山文创园区). Winding up on September 30th is the 2013 Meet Taipei: Design (2013台北街角遇见设计) event, which is being staged in the city’s East District (城东), Zhongshan-Shuanglian (中山双连) area, Neihu District, and Wenshan District (文山区). Creativity is brought into everyday life via workshops, lectures, exhibits, artistic performances, and self-guided initiatives, sprouting pleasant surprises at many street corners.
2013 Taiwan Design Expo X Taipei Design & City Exhibition: Design – Inspiring a Wave of Social Design
A city’s forward momentum is supported by its citizens, and to encourage urban renewal and public participation, the interactive community website Change Taipei (changetaipei.net) went online in July. The 2013 Taiwan Design Expo X Taipei Design & City Exhibition is also up and running at Songshan Cultural and Creative Park, with the hope of promoting social design through a design-driven civilian population. Public suggestions and ideas for the city have also been integrated into the event.
The display in Warehouse No. 4 (4号仓库) concentrates on Taipei urban-development issues, introducing the public to the challenges faced by the city and the role design can play in resolving them. Warehouse No. 5 (5号仓库) is a platform for the public to make changes. One and all are invited to join the “Stir Project” (搅动计划) and “Design District” (设计街区) initiatives in every corner of the city, which embody the “social design” (社会设计) spirit of Taipei City in the face of urban-development issues.
This is the first year the Taipei Design & City Exhibition is being staged together with the Taiwan Design Expo, hosted by the Industrial Development Bureau of the Ministry of Economic Affairs (经济部工业局), creating a synergistic experience for all visitors. In conjunction with the city's bid for World Design Capital in 2016, the theme for this year's expo is "Adaptive City" (不断提升的城市), and everyone is invited to explore their creativity, using design to make the city ever more attractive.
2013 Meet Taipei: Design Opening Up a City of Imagination
2013 Meet Taipei: Design (2013台北街角遇见设计) begins with the concept of “Creative Corners, Big Connections” (街角创意大串联). Many different shops in the four city neighborhoods have transformed themselves by creatively decorating their facades or interiors, adding surprises and a sense of anticipation to our life.
From August 1st to September 30th, flash performances will spring up on street corners, and physical theater workshops will teach you how to move with the rhythms of the city. Urban creative actions are being independently planned and carried out for the Big Connections initiative by stores and businesses from different fields, design firms, and arts groups, bringing something fresh to our daily routine. Explore the lanes and alleys and feast your eyes on outstanding works from the annual Young Designers’ Exhibition (新一代设计展). You may also dive into the splendid diversity of exhibits, workshops, lectures, and open houses featuring a wide range of urban issues. Through exploration of the city’s colors and sounds, and via observation and experience, citizens will discover this city’s many beauties and the joys of design.
The wide spectrum of exciting design exhibitions aims to make Taipei renowned to the world as a place of pride and vitality. So come on out and join this grand design-concept movement!
Information
2013 Taiwan Design Expo X Taipei Design & City Exhibition
2013台湾设计展暨台北设计城市展
Time: Until 9/29
Venue: Songshan Cultural and Creative Park (松山文创园区)
Add: 133, Guangfu S. Rd.
(光复南路133号)
Website: www.designexpo.org.tw
2013 Meet Taipei : Design
2013台北街角遇见设计
Time: Until 9/30
Tel: (02)2579-2528
Website: www.facebook.com/meet.taipei.design