A total of eight designers have been selected to participate in the 2016 Designer in Residence Taipei program: six from abroad and two from Taiwan. The international designers—from the Netherlands, [...]
“This is not government’s design.” “This is not Taipei MRT.” “I can now see the impact of WDC.” These are some thoughts passengers had when they got on the Taipei [...]
The Department of Cultural Affairs in Taipei City sent out the WDC Taipei 2016 “International Design Open Call” in 2015, and from the 49 international submissions selected six proposals that [...]
The development issues that Taipei faces today can be distilled into four strands: “Life Quality and Health,” “Ecological Sustainability,” “Urban Regeneration” and “Smart Living.” Following the main issues, international designers [...]
Here are the lastest events happening in and around WDC Taipei this July
OPEN CALL is a project to collect city-based project proposals, which lasted for a period of 60 days and received 49 proposals from 19 countries. The topic was how [...]
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 second international exchange exhibition, Creative Roughness – Contemporary Israeli Design, is part of a range of exhibitions being held during World Design Capital Taipei 2016 and will open on [...]
There is an ancient Chinese saying that is “eat but finely ground grain and finely chopped meat.”As times shift and technology evolves, food now plays a very different role in [...]