City Yeasts Movements Broadcast Overseas School Yeasts US Project

Super City-Rich Forum

Date： August 11, 2013 (Sun)  19: 00 - 21: 00

Venue：2nd Floor Plaza of Hankyu Department Store

Host： Guo-hua Yu

Speakers：Ching-yueh Ruan, Wei-gong Liu, Mei-guang Li, Agua Chou

Audiences：All the people who have their own ideas for Taipei's future, and all the people passing by.

Origin and description：

One of our members found a new event in the City Yeast website- Meet Taipei: Design - [Super City‧Rich Forum]—an activity discussing about Taipei's future plan and direction. Five members decided to participate this forum, hoping to get help from the professionals.

Stepping into outdoor plaza from the air-conditioned room of the second floor of Hankyu Department Store, with the summer wind coming from straight ahead, it is really comfortable when you walked out of the room with an idea of “having a walk outside” ! Though the square is equipped with stage, but the forum is conducted in the center of the square which bridged the gap between “speakers” and “audience”. It allows the entire participant to join the interaction and enhance the sense of participation for flaring creative spark.

During the lecture, we imagined and talked about infinite possibilities of the future. Among city observers of each field, Ching-yueh Ruan, Wei-gong Liu, Mei-guang Li, Yu-ju Chou had their cross-field conversation in the outdoor lecture.They opened the interesting conversation between each person and the residence by combining moving moments of design, life, literature, limbs and creation by weaving prologues for prospect of the city.

(reference: http://www.cityyeast.com/passion_show.php?newstype_id2=83&news_id=964)

 

(reference: http://www.cityyeast.com/passion_show.php?newstype_id2=83&news_id=964)

(Reference: http://www.cityyeast.com/passion_show.php?newstype_id2=83&news_id=964)

 

Agua Chou

  • Outdoor plaza is an outdoor auditorium without air-conditioning.This is the advantage of this place.

  • She is born in Ximending, and she works at least 16 hours for Taipei each day.

  • She thinks Taipei is a city for work. Efficiency is an important factor of Taipei.

  • She has limited contact with this city since she spent most of her time on work.

  • How do we enjoy the city during busy work?

    • Responds our life at all levels, then your life will be changed.

    • We can enjoy urban streetscape while we drive home from work.

  • Commercial design is not a remote noun that can only be participated by designers but also by the public.

  • Taipei has changed into another level; we should study and think of each detail.

  • Find the design in the details to bring common feel for more people.

  • Sustaining the forest doesn't only mean to stop cutting trees but two hundred trees should be planted while one tree is chopped down.

  • A city just is just like a teenager, it mixes various colors in everything. Ex. life, clothes and scenes.

(Referencehttp://www.cityyeast.com/passion_show.php?newstype_id2=83&news_id=964)

 

Mei-guang Li

  • Hopes to promote the public art, and wishes their performances could be seen everywhere in Taipei.

  • Human participate in various ceromony due to hardship, setbacks.

  • It is said that we will not be confused about our life when we reach 40, but it takes so long! We have to cherish everyone and affection around us

  • Fall in love with your job, and then you need to balance your life.

  • Taipei shouldn't be a city that can only produce heat, electricity and waste.

  • Plants can provide peace and contemplation.

  • City’s charm- past and present 。

  • We have to appreciate the wisdom that is left by ancestors. That is the way we learn to write.

  • City is just like our life, and the support from others means a lot!

Referencehttp://www.cityyeast.com/passion_show.php?newstype_id2=83&news_id=964)

Wei-gong Liu

  • How do we maintain the characteristics of each city under the globalization?

  • How to conduct benign conversation with the government? ？

  • It is also fun to finding all kinds of surprise in each corner of the city.

  • In a foreign country, what touches us are not skyscrapers but the people and view in country side.

  • Humor sublimates human’s emotion.

  • People are lack of imagination. Their ideas are limited; the city shouldn't be filled with tall buildings.

  • What we need in Taipei is a village in a cityand not a city in a city. It makes people feel warm.

  • Things and people in the city are full of vitality, which is an expression of their interest.

  • A city should have their own vitality and humor;to know life and get rid of chain. 。

  • Create unique life style with the use of space- landscape(Children infertility center), lifestyle, stories – landscape(兒育中心), lifestyle, stories

  • Recommended place of Taipei – Spot Taipei, Very Fun Park

  • The design for the sake of the people- horse race lamp at bus station should provide with touch panel for passenger to inform the driver.

  • The concept of charging flash disks by riding the bike can be used by Taiwan for giving dignity and work opportunity to vagrants.

    • (Reference http://www.cityyeast.com/passion_show.php?newstype_id2=83&news_id=964)

    Ching-yueh Ruan

  • As an architect, when being asked the reasons why Taipei looks so ugly, I felt so ashamed!

  • Pigeon house isn't designed by any architect, but it achieved a great success.

  • We planned to rebuilt Taipei according to other cities; however but we have changed our mind.

  • Vienna is beautiful but boring, and there is no interaction between the residence, so we stayed in the hotel all day long.

  • Singapore is also boring.

  • • Bangkok- we thought it was a backward city, however, it is a city filled with vitality due to its local custom.

    • (reference: http://www.cityyeast.com/passion_show.php?newstype_id2=83&news_id=964)

     

    Q&A

    1. How do we bring delight to everyone?

      2. Popularize it as a collective attitude and value, and make it become a common life style. 。

    2. How to make old building full of fun?

      3. Crowning the title “historical sites” for old house doens't make it popular. It only decreases the vitality.

    3. Will art assimilation occur in Taipei?

      4. Find the design and its originality, and their uniqueness will be found. Show yourself and believe in yourself. Imagination should start from your heart, or it will be reduced into imitation.

    4. How to promote the concept of fun?

      5. Believe in yourself! Beautiful flower will grow in your own garden. Do not imitate! Tap your potential with imagination creatively.

    5. Can creativity be promoted?

      6. Life skill is needed. Colors don't choose themselves, they have no self-conscious; we have to take the initiative to request.

    6. How do we kill time?

      7. Modern dance is important for us to develop creativity.

    (reference: http://www.cityyeast.com/passion_show.php?newstype_id2=83&news_id=964)

     

    (reference: http://www.cityyeast.com/passion_show.php?newstype_id2=83&news_id=964)

     

    Reflections

    During hot summer, people in Taipei have developed a habit of watching TV, playing phone in air-conditioned room. It is really rare to have a seat outside in the night of midsummer to feel the comfortable temperature here, which is really memorable. Hearing the improved condition of Taipei discussed by art professionals, enable us to think “as a resident of Taipei, what can I do for this city?”. Though some of the content is kind of extreme, professional points are still thought-provoking. Some people probably stumbled upon this event, holding the attitude of “listening” and found a place to sit, however, most people leave with smile on their faces.