iF DESIGN MARATHON 2022
Day 15: Taiwan Design Research Institute (TDRI)
25 October 2022: Taipei, Taiwan
How TDRI leads design and innovation in Taiwan
Responsibility for responsible design: Taipei presents ideas and innovations
Design is not detached from its environment, its users and its benefits. Seldom is this more vividly demonstrated than in mega cities, where lighthouse projects have great relevance. Combining innovative design power with the aspiration to incorporate national design principles, extraordinary projects have emerged in Taipei that are taking to the track for the very first time in the iF Design Marathon, demonstrating their impressive impact on the city and society.
Welcome to insights into brilliant Taiwanese design!
These years, TDRI worked on many innovative projects with many government officials from center to local ones, hoping to introduce design to people's daily life.
In the video down below, you can see several highlight cases of TDRI's cooperation with government departments and private industries to share with the public, including court reform, public health center redesign, and traditional industry innovation, etc.
At the same time, these cases also show the design trends in Taiwan in the past two years.
Design Taiwan - explore the exciting projects
Impressions of the projects
Taichung City Zhongxiao Elementary School: Organic unit table specially created by the design team.
MAC Ward - Transforming spaces into medical wards.
MAC Ward - Transforming spaces into medical wards.
For T22 (revitalization program with regional characteristics design), TDRI collaborated with Yingge - known for its century-old ceramics industry in Taiwan.
TDRI worked together with the New Taipei City Department of Health to redesign public health centers.