{"id":8802,"date":"2011-11-06T15:29:40","date_gmt":"2011-11-06T20:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=8802"},"modified":"2017-11-12T02:08:35","modified_gmt":"2017-11-11T21:08:35","slug":"%e8%ac%9d%e8%ac%9d%e6%82%a8%e5%8f%b0%e5%8c%97-thank-you-taipei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/%e8%ac%9d%e8%ac%9d%e6%82%a8%e5%8f%b0%e5%8c%97-thank-you-taipei\/","title":{"rendered":"\u8b1d\u8b1d\u60a8\u53f0\u5317 Thank you Taipei!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8805\" title=\"2011_IDA_Congress_Taipei\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011_IDA_Congress_Taipei1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"437\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8806\" title=\"Taipei_night_IDA\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/Taipei_night_IDA.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"314\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8807\" title=\"Taipei_memorial\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/Taipei_memorial.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"329\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8808\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/Taipei_Taiwan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"328\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Taipei, Taiwan<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a week since I returned from the <em>2011 IDA World Design Congress<\/em> in Taipei (IDA = the International Design Alliance, comprised of Icograda, Icsid, and IFI) and the <em>24th General Assembly of Icograda<\/em>, the International Council of Communication Design\u2026 and my head&#8217;s still reeling.<\/p>\n<p>The sold-out benchmark congress event drew together over 3000 delegates from around the globe, and was accompanied by a successful <em>Design Expo<\/em> (which enjoyed over 1 million visitors); scores of parallel exhibitions, conferences, and seminars further illuminated the city of Taipei&#8217;s position during this time as the centre of attention in the world of design.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>2011 IDA Congress<\/em> lived up to its billing as a unique gathering of thought leadership exploring the intersection between design and five key sectors of global relevance: economic development, the Internet, biotechnology, urbanism, and international migration. As such, it brought together designers with non-design stakeholders to promote the value of design and explore design-led approaches as an enabler of innovation. &#8220;The Congress theme\u2014<em>Design at the Edges<\/em>\u2014highlights the edges between design practice and other fields having a stake in design; the blurring of the boundaries between the design disciplines, as well as their unique attributes; and \u2018cutting edge&#8217; work and ideas\u2014thinking that pushes the boundaries of all disciplines.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Over the past two years I&#8217;ve had the pleasure of acting as an adviser to the Taiwanese hosts\/organizers, and I was also pleased to have the opportunity of presenting a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/sustainability\/good-design\/\" target=\"_blank\">keynote lecture<\/a> in the &#8216;Economic Development&#8217; stream. I&#8217;ve learned a lot about Taiwan (this was my 7th trip there), in no small part through the process of researching and writing a feature article that appears in the current issue of <em>Communication Arts<\/em> magazine (November\/December 2011 issue).<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>A huge &#8216;thank-you&#8217; goes out to the local hosts in Taipei; the Taiwan Design Centre, as well as to the visionary Taiwanese ministries whose mission for sustainable economic development has placed <\/em>Design<em> at the center of their strategic thinking for the future. Thanks also to the many Taiwanese designers who contributed their works and viewpoints to my CA article&#8230;<\/em> \u8b1d\u8b1d!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8809\" title=\"Communication_Arts_Taiwan_feature\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/Communication_Arts_Taiwan_feature.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"547\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8810\" title=\"Taiwan_CA_feature\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/Taiwan_CA_feature.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"555\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taipei, Taiwan It&#8217;s been a week since I returned from the 2011 IDA World Design Congress in Taipei (IDA = the International Design Alliance, comprised of Icograda, Icsid, and IFI) and the 24th General Assembly of Icograda, the International Council of Communication Design\u2026 and my head&#8217;s still reeling. The sold-out benchmark congress event drew together [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,6,7,14,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8802"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8802"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15469,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8802\/revisions\/15469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}