2021-11-01

The 5th New Asia Design Workshop held online by 2021TISDC from Oct. 30th to Oct. 31st has come to a perfect end.

Organized by the Department of Higher Education under the Ministry of Education (Taiwan), executed by the Department of Visual Communication Design of Asia University, and sponsored by the iSee Taiwan Foundation, Sayling Wen Cultural and Educational Foundation, and TPCA Environment Foundation, 2021 Taiwan International Student Design Competition held the 5th New Asia Design Workshop online at Asia University on the 30th and 31st of October, 2021. Three prestigious international designers including Mr. Omijika MAME from Japan, Mr. Janaka Rajapakse from Sri Lanka, and Mr. Johann Geiger from Germany were invited to be the instructors of the workshop.

This year’s workshop theme includes both SDGs and the continuance of 2021TISDC’s theme: “Regenerate – building upon the foundation of the past and adopting a new perspective to forge a path into the future and give rise to a new paradigm.” The three international designers utilized their own unique experiences to lead and inspire the students to observe and contemplate from various perspectives which would greatly help with the students’ designs, thus stimulating their creative energy!

The online workshop was held through video conferencing which allowed many students to have the opportunity to participate in this event. Not only does this event promote international exchange, but also provides a whole new platform and method for students that love design to have the opportunity to learn from the international designers in one-on-one mini consulting classes.

In order to break language barriers, each lecturer was accompanied by an interpreter so that students could understand what the lecturers wanted to express, thus being more involved in the workshop. An estimate of 72 students from 30 different universities and departments in Taiwan participated in the workshop.

The three lecturers shared different design methods with their own experiences which further on stimulated students’ creative design inspiration. Lots of students gave us positive feedback regarding our two-day workshop. All three lecturers had different teaching styles which brought whole new perspectives to students. Both lecturers and students very much enjoyed our two-day event. Once again, we would like to thank TISDC for this wonderful event and we hope to have the opportunity to participate in this workshop again next year.