TDRI: Interdisciplinary Value-added Design Service Platform
Leading industrial innovation with national design policy to develop high-value design knowledge and applications
Design is taking the world by storm. It plays an increasingly important role in the economy, culture, and society of a country. Meanwhile, more and more industries are treating design as a core competitive advantage. With this in mind, the government is establishing the “Taiwan Design Research Institute” (TDRI) in 2020. The aim of this project is to capitalize on Taiwan’s strengths in design to drive industrial development and the overall economic growth.
The TDRI plans to consolidate public resources from a wide range of government agencies with “the power of design,” promoting design as a central governance value and as a national defense strategy. The Institute is expected to guide the sustainable development of industries and society, which should in turn improve the living quality of the general public. It can assist the government in making national design policy and increasing governance efficiency. In addition, through an integrated interdisciplinary approach, the Institute will introduce design-based thinking into government administration, drive talent cultivation in the private sector, and build businesses that lead the design industry.
TDRI: Interdisciplinary Value-added Design Service Platform
Leading industrial innovation with national design policy to develop high-value design knowledge and applications
「設計」正以前所未有的速度影響全球，它在國家經濟、文化、社會當中所扮演的角色重要性與日俱增，且越來越多其他產業將設計視為核心競爭力，藉由設計能量驅動企業，帶動國家整體的經濟發展。因此政府於2020年成立國家級設計研究院「財團法人台灣設計研究院」（Taiwan Design Research Institute，簡稱TDRI）。
TDRI將運用「設計力」整合政府跨部會的資源，讓設計成為我國重要施政價值與國家戰略，期許引領產業和社會永續發展，並增進國民生活價值。TDRI將協助政府擬定國家設計政策，提升政府施政效能，同時透過跨領域的知識整合，讓政府導入設計思維，以設計驅動企業賦能，在臺灣打造設計領先型企業。
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Chi-Yi CHANG / President |
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| Oliver Lin / Acting President |
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| He is frequently invited to be the jury board and the keynote speaker of in-ternational and national design awards and international forums. And also, he has served as the deliberation and advisory committee of major gov-ernment plans, also has promoted the internationalization of Taiwanese design for more than 20 years. He is a planner and an important promoter of design cities. In recent years he serves as the key person in TDRI’s strategic research and planning of national design policies, supporting corporates’ design-empowerment and innovation, and also fostering the establishment and international promotion of the national design brand – “DIT” (Design in Taiwan), in order to build up Taiwan’s design ecosystem. He devotes him-self in developing Taiwan Design’s international impact and the power of discourse. The vision is to make better change in Taiwan through design capabilities and to facilitate Taiwan design’s global reputation. |
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Nina Ay / Vice President |
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Nina has many years of working experience in design management, design in-novation, design for public service and as an exhibition curator. She is one of the key persons that is making huge impacts in our society in Taiwan. Currently she is leading multiple projects like famous exhibition in Taiwan, “Taiwan Design Expo” and “Creative Expo Taiwan”. Also, there are a few design and public service projects like “Design Movement on Campus”, “Public Health Center Re-design”, and “Micro-Renovation of TRA Train Sta-tion”etc. |
Shyhnan Liou Ph. D. / Vice President of Research and Development |
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In recent years Prof. Liou has been committed to assisting government’s R&D institutes (such as ITRI, III, MIDRC, NBRP) to innovate foresight re-search, organizational design, and evaluation. Prof. Liou helps not only to create Orange Technology to promote human-oriented technology, but also assist national ministries (MOEA, MOC, MOE, MOST) as a consultant. Furthermore, Prof. Liou has been cooperating with MOHW to promote the system of designing smart and healthy cities and participating in the pro-motion of national social innovation. As for international cooperation, Prof. Liou has long-term cooperation with Germany, USA and Hong Kong in sen-ior society and technology design, and has established the Center of Posi-tive Social Science (CPOSS) with CUHK to promote the integration of tech-nology, society and happiness. In TDRI, he leads national projects of design driven national innovation sys-tem advancing transdisciplinary collaboration among design, technology, and business. He now engages promoting the development of design re-search in the whole institute and at home and abroad joining the TDRI. |
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