2018-04-23

2018 TISDC Overseas Tour in Vietnam – 4/19-4/20 Workshop

The TISDC executive team were led by Prof. Jun-Hong Chen, Professor Shin-Fu Lee, and Prof Sheng-min Hsieh conducting a one-week exchange activities in Hanoi, Vietnam, in response to the Southbound Policy promoted by Ministry of Education, Taiwan. The promotional tour invited schools related to art and design in Ho Chi Minh City to participate in the activities from 17^th April to 23^rd April, 2018. Not only did TISDC team cooperate with the Posts and Telecommunications Institute of Technology to hold a two-day workshop on 19^thApril and 20^thApril, an exhibition of 2017 TISDC winners’ works was also taken place during the workshop. On 19^thApril, the workshop warmed up with a forum in the morning with 90 teachers and students attended, lectured by Prof. Jun-Hong Chen and Prof Sheng-Min Hsieh to introduce the series of programs for the cultivation of art and design talents handled by the Ministry of Education of Taiwan, and the Prof. Shin-Fu Lee took the theme "Breakthrough and Innovation" to encourage the students to participate in the competition. The workshop officially opened in the afternoon. The workshop invited four well-known art and design related institutions in Hanoi, which were Hanoi College of Art, Nguyen Trai University, Posts and Telecommunications Institute of Technology, and FTP University, a total of 52 students attended. The workshop instructors were selected by the Taiwanese International Student Design Competition in 2018 through an open selection for three outstanding Taiwanese design talent: Sheng-Hong Lee, whose expertise is industrial design, currently works as an associate professor at Shanghai Institute of Visual Arts at Fudan University; Fu-Chun Wan, who has won the German Red Dot Communication Design Award, the German iF Concept Design Award, etc. mainly in industrial design; and Pu Chen, the Gold prize for animation of WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival. Led by the abovementioned cutting-edges designers, the workshop was aimed at inspiring students with creative practice on their works through the exchange activities.

The three designers shared their own experience to the students with different perspectives. Lecturer Sheng-Hong Lee started from the illusion of the future to remind students searching for the neglected miner details, and explore the relationship between those materials and human, to further combined them into their works with the spirit of innovation and breakthrough. And Fu-Chun Wan shared her thoughts on multiple design products that received the overseas certification awards, and shared her experiences in participating in international contests. She emphasized that “Design is based on the way to understand the nature of things elegantly.” Pu Chen shared his works which were created during his study based on graphic and multimedia design to encourage students to try multi-media forms more on their works. During the workshop, the students were devoted by the leading of three Instructors which provided observations and reflections in different design fields through creative ideas and interpretations. TISDC team looked forward to bringing more international perspectives for Vietnamese design students.