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TAOPIA

Sustainability Flow
09/24-10/11

Exhibition Introduction

Beginning in Taoyuan, "TAOPIA" connects local industries, design innovation, and circular practices to portray a park representing evolving future circular strategies. Circular sustainability is not the goal, but a state of the world that is constantly developing and transforming. Bringing together enterprises deeply rooted in sustainability, the exhibition centers around two primary axes—Lifestyle and Industrial circular initiatives. From daily circular economy actions to material innovation, green manufacturing processes, and circular technologies, the exhibition demonstrates how circularity, as a shared lifestyle, extends from individual choices to urban systems.
 
Echoing Taoyuan's youthful, diverse, and vibrant urban profile, the exhibition adopts Play & Imagination as its curatorial ethos, creating a circular space for cross-generational entertainment and co-creation. Through interactive installations, dynamic performances, and open landscapes, visitors are guided to understand circular design through exploration and creation, allowing sustainability education to become more than knowledge transfer, but a vivid imagination that they can actively step into and experience.
 
The philosophy of circularity is also put into practice in the exhibition venue. Rethinking the exhibition lifecycle, we employ rental modular components and recyclable materials, breaking the traditional pattern where exhibitions become waste upon closure. The space is not merely a container for displays, but itself the core of the showcase. An exhibition is born when people gather here, and dissolves when its lifecycle comes to an end. All components will return to their origins and be reused, given a second life, and become part of a circular park in progress.

Curatorial Unit

Üroborus StudioLab

Üroborus StudioLab is a design team that brings together urbanism, architecture, and local character. We combine experimental thinking with local materials to create unique spatial experiences. Our works have garnered numerous prestigious accolades, including TID Gold Award, the Golden Pin Design Award for Best Design of the Year, the German iF Design Award, and the Architecture MasterPrize (AMP), and have been consistently shortlisted for the World Architecture Festival (WAF) Awards. Notably, our representative works have also been consecutively selected among ArchDaily's Top 100. Our team has long been paying attention to local and circular design in Taiwan, dedicated to transforming recycled or reusable materials into building blocks and exhibition elements. In the past, we have constructed spaces utilizing rented wooden pallets and tin barrels, achieving post-exhibition material recycling and waste reduction, thereby extending the possibilities of spatial circular design.

Curator

Hao-Chun Hung
Üroborus Studiolab | Hao-Chun Hung

Founder of Üroborus studioLab, has a rich background as a senior designer and site architect at Heatherwick Studio. With degrees in architecture from Tamkang University and the Bartlett School, UCL. Hao-Chun has been honored with numerous awards, including the Taiwan Interior Design Award, iF Award and World Architecture Festival Award. His project, QUAN Sphere, was named one of the world's top 100 architectures in 2023 by ArchDaily and Bloomberg. Serving as a judge for the World Architecture Festival, he continues to shape architectural achievements.

Cooperative Partners

Curatorial Organization | Uroborus_studiolab

Curator | HUNG Hao-Chun

Spatial Coordination | Uroborus_studiolab

Exhibition Planning | HUNG Hao-Chun / TSAI Jia-Wei / CHEN Hsuan-Tsu

Exhibition Assistants | HUANG Hung-Wei / YOU YU-XUN/ CHI Po-Chien / CHEN Chun-Hao / TSENG Chih-Chieh / LI Hou-Hua

Visual Design | WÖ!

 

Video Coordination | Nesty Studio

Director | WU Ting-Yu

Project Manager | WU Chia-Shan

Art Director | CHANG Chien-Shan

Motion Design | CHUANG Tzu-Ping / LEE Hai-Tung / CHU Po-Lin

Interactive Technology : KoKo Studio

Interactive Web Developer: Tony Tang

 

Lighting Design Consultant | KCLD

Project Designer | CHANG Shih-Ti

Project Director | CHEN Yen-Kai

 

Structural Fabrication | Shen Mao Green House

 

Exhibitors|

 

Founder Aluminum / DOT design / Geberit Taiwan Flagship Center / DA TSY RAN Enterprise / Tcf. Umbrella / Backbone / Dishan Design Studio / Happy Big Foot / Taiwan Textile Federation (TTF) / Sparkly Identity / Taiwan FamilyMart / FNG Design / Taiwan Comfort Champ / Fengshan Studio - Denim Weaving Lab / 496 FABRIC LAB / O'right International / PXMart / Bi-Cast De Brass Industrial / DHH Studio / Unipapa / Simbalion / Unice E-O Services Inc. / 111 PLUS DESIGN / KING's Solution / formfty Design Studio / Yi Chun Green Technology / GFun / Singtex / Long Bliss Co. / Summer Design / Hop Lion Feather Works Corp. (Dayuan Plant) / Fu Jen Catholic University Hospital / MINIWIZ / Frank Mechatronics / FATEK / Cloud Interactive / DKABio / CXE DESIGN / Wenchen Plastic Industrial Co. / Super Dragon Technology Co. / NOVAX Material & Technology Inc.

 

Plinth Sponsor|NOVAX Material & Technology Inc.

 

Special Thanks|NOVAX Material & Technology Inc., Shen Mao Green House

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