Management

Chi-Yi CHANG / President

Current Position

• • President at Taiwan Design Research Institute (TDRI)
  • Board Member of the World Design Organization (WDO)

Experiences

• Previously Vice President for General Affairs in National Chiao Tung Uni-versity
• The director of the Graduate Institute of Architecture in National Chiao Tung University
• Professor at the Graduate Institute of Architecture at the National Chiao Tung University
• Vice Chairman at Xue Xue Foundation
• Deputy governor of Taitung County Government
• CEO of Taitung Design Center
• The director of A+@ Architecture Studio
• Published several books including Contemporary Architecture: the Con-cept of Aesthetic, European Charm: New Architecture, and Contempo-rary Architecture of North American in Focus

Education

• • Master in Design Studies (MDes) from Harvard Design School
  • Master of Architecture (M.Arch.) from Ohio State University

Oliver Lin / Vice President

Current Position

• • Vice President at Taiwan Design Research Institute (TDRI)
  • Vice President of Taiwan Design Alliance (TDA)

Experiences

• Deputy CEO at Taiwan Design Center (TDC)
• Chief Curator of Taipei Expo 2022
• Chief director of World Design Capital® (WDC) Taipei 2016
• Chief director of 2011 IDA Congress in Taipei
• Distinguished Alumni of Tatung University (Industrial Design)

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.

Education

• Master of Design (MDes) from University of Cincinnat
• Bachelor of Industrial Design (B.I.B.) from Tatung University

Nina Ay / Vice President

Current Position
Vice President at Taiwan Design Research Institute (TDRI)

Experiences

• Deputy CEO at Taiwan Design Center (TDC)
• Board Member of Taiwan Design Alliance (TDA)

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

Present Job
Vice President of Research and Development at Taiwan Design Research Institute (TDRI)

Experiences

• Chair and Professor of Institute of Creative Industries Design of National Cheng Kung University
• Director of Center of Positive Social Science (CPOSS) of The Chinese University of Hong Kong and National Cheng Kung University
• Chief Editor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship fields of Journal of Technology Management
• Consultant of Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) （Biomedical Technology and Device Research Laboratories, IEK Con-sulting, President Office, Human Resources）
• Consultant of Metal Industries Research & Development Center
• Consultant of MIC and Management Division of Institute of Information Industry (III)
• CEO of Creativity, Innovation & Entrepreneurship Center, National Cheng Kung University

Expertise
Prof. Liou’s research areas are mainly on design thinking in social innova-tion, dynamic of mutual influences between culture and creativity, team and organization innovation in both R&D institutes and creative industries, and transdisciplinary collaboration in integrative research. He has pub-lished hundreds of papers and five books.

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.

Education

• Ph.D. of Department of Psychology from National Taiwan University
• Visiting Scholar of Department of Psychology and Institute of Social Re-search at University of Michigan