軟:硬- 超越想像的產業未來 Future Beyond Imagination - Taiwan Design Expo 2018


“The only eternity in this world, but change.” That is why we are so obsessed with exploring for the future and fearing that we are left behind in the world. Since mid last century, the manufacturing industry in Taiwan has played a key role in the supply chain of the world. While facing the new challenge of the industry 4.0 and artificial intelligence, it has also evolved into a role that hardly to be replaced. Among these, Taichung, the most important and representative manufacturing cluster in Taiwan, which combines the hard power of professional manufacturing technology and with the soft power of branding, design, culture, patents of intellectual property, and so on. “Taiwan Design Expo 2018” is located in the heart of manufacturing of Taiwan - Taichung. The theme, “Future Beyond Imagination”, which focuses on one of the most pressing issues “future”, with four sub-themes “Life Future”, “Production Future” , “ Material Future”, and “Imagination Future”, gradually outline the future of the industries, and then point out that the progress of technology is actually based on the human imagination of the future.

「世上唯一永恆不變的事,就是事物不斷在改變。」也因此我們對於未來的探究也如此痴迷,為落伍於世界而恐懼。台灣的製造業長久以來在世界的供應鏈扮演著關鍵的角色,在面臨數位製造、人工智慧等世界趨勢的同時,亦進化成為無法被取代的角色。而在這之中,又以台中 - 台灣最重要的製造聚落最具代表性,兼具專業製造技術的硬底子與以及品牌、設計、文化、智財專利...等軟實力。 2018年的台灣設計展落腳於台灣的製造心臟 - 台中,以「未來」為主軸,從「科技圍繞的生活」、「人與科技的共創」、「具生命力的材料」三個主題依序切入,由淺至深,鋪展產業的未來樣貌,最後再以「想像驅動的未來」為題,點出科技的進程其實皆源自人類對於未來的想像。這個展覽除了展現台灣產業實力,也期望能帶給產業與大眾一個可視化的未來願景 - 軟與硬,柔與剛,幻想與務實,文化與經濟,這些看似彼此對立的面相,都將不再是對立的彼端,而是互相支持成長的夥伴。


Year 2018
Adviser 經濟部、文化部、台中市政府
Official Organizer 經濟部工業局、台中市政府文化局
Unity Organizer 文化部文化資產局
Assistance Organizer 苗栗縣政府、南投縣政府、彰化縣政府、國立臺灣工藝研究發展中心、聚知堂國際發展中心
Executive Organizer 台灣創意設計中心
Curator Shikai Tseng
Co-curator Paul Gong
Project Manager Riva Zhong
Curation Team Elinda Chen, Yaya Huang
Exhibits Designer 生活起物 googoods
Graphic Designer 日目 247Visualart



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