A Look into 2023 Taiwan International Student Design Competition’s Japan Promotion on International Design Center NAGOYA、Nippon Designer Academy Of Fine Arts

As the 2023 TISDC overseas promotion kicked off, Project Director Prof. Apex Lin and Associate Project Director Associate Professor Hsiao-Wei Fang paid a visit to the Deputy Governor of Aichi Prefecture, Shinichiro Furumoto on February 3^rd. The visit was arranged by Mr. Mutsumi Teranishi, who is currently a Member of Aichi Prefectural Assembly and who also worked under Dentsu Tokyo as the producer for Expo 2005 in Aichi. The President of Chubu Creators Club, Katsunori Watanabe and CEO Akio Ogawa also joined the meeting with the team.

The meeting was full of inspiring discussions, Prof. Apex Lin expressed his gratitude to Japan for donating vaccine doses during the pandemic to Taiwan. He also appreciated that International Design Center NAGOYA invited him several times to be jury member, workshop lecturer, and to hold exhibition. With the assistance from Chubu Creators Club and International Design Center Nagoya, the TISDC has been successfully promoted in Japan and has received positive results.

On February 6^th, Project Director Prof. Apex Lin and Associate Project Director Hsiao-Wei Fang led a campus promotional campaign in Nippon Designer Academy of Fine Arts where around 25 professors and students had participated in. This year’s theme “Compassion” echoes with the UN’s SDGs: Sustainable Development Goals. It’s hoped that students can connect their design with the sustainable goals proposed by the UN in 2015, which is set to be achieved by 2030. We’d like students from all over the world to care more about the daily things in life and to make the world a better place by putting themselves in others’ shoes with a caring design mindset. Through this oversea promotional event, we hope to see more students from Japan joining the TISDC this year.

On the day of the campaign, Professor Lin and Associate Professor Fang also visited International Design Center NAGOYA for its 30^th anniversary event where student posters from Taiwan and Japan are exhibited. We want to again extend our gratitude to Chubu Creators Club as well as International Design Center NAGOYA for always being incredibly supportive to the TISDC.

Caption: (R to L) Representative Mutsumi Teranishi, President Katsunori Watanabe, CEO Akio Ogawa, Deputy Governor Shinichiro Furumoto, Project Director Prof. Apex Lin, Associate Project Director A.P. Hsiao-Wei Fang, and Former Dean at College of Arts of the National Taiwan Normal University Jun-Liang Lin.

Caption: campus publicity at the Japanese Academy of Designer Arts, Project Director Prof. Apex Lin introduce Sponsors iSee Taiwan Foundation and Sayling Wen Cultural & Educational Foundation

Caption: Project Director Prof. Apex Lin introduce Special Award Sponsor TPCA Environment Foundation

Caption: Project Director Prof. Apex Lin introduce Collaborators Twenty Two International Design Associations

Caption: International Design Center NAGOYA 30^th anniversary exhibition with President Yasuyuki Ito and Project Director Apex Lin

Caption1: International Design Center NAGOYA 30th anniversary exhibition venue

Caption2: International Design Center NAGOYA 30th anniversary exhibition venue

Caption3: International Design Center NAGOYA 30th anniversary exhibition venue

Caption4: International Design Center NAGOYA 30th anniversary exhibition venue