Adaptive Taipei City // #LDF13
I was pleasantly surprised to visit the Adaptive Taipei City stand at 100% Design last week to discover some great design but, more importantly, some great design thinking.
Taiwan is not known globally for design, although that should all change as they bid for the World Design Capital 2016 and the manufacturing country deserve to be recognised for design as they employ sustainable and social design policies throughout government to ensure that this thinking begins at the top or the system.
An idea that I loved which is so incredibly simple is a bus stop sign which allow partially-blind travellers to request buses from the sign rather than struggling to see the approaching bus and flagging it down at the last stage. It makes perfect sense for this system to be overhauled to make it easier for people to use. This is the kind of thinking which makes Taipei a city to keep an eye on.
Taipei’s stand was a vibrant, colourful display of energy-efficient LED lighting including this Aurelia Light by QisDesign. With a metal touch-plate to change the intensity of the light, this LED jellyfish-like light, inspired by its namesake the bulbous underwater Aurelia Moon Jellyfish, glowed on the brightly-coloured stand.
The White sets by DHH Studio / Gina Ching-ing Hsu replace clinical and cold medical sets to take medicine with warm materials and a soft aesthetic, to make the process more like the ritual one wold have making coffee.
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