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Description

Shopping areas are the heart of local life, where the mutual benefits are realized and communities thrive. "Design Movement on Shopping Area" is a collaborative effort among the central and local governments, business organizations, expert consultants, and design teams. This program aims to inject energy and vitality into the local communities via design and revitalizes the commercial districts!

Distinctive lifestyles are unlocked via design in Tainan's Confucius Temple Commercial District, Guohua Youai Commercial District and Yongle Market. Rather than complete transformations that erase the past, a tailor-made strategic approach was introduced to enhance public spaces, shops and products, while reconnecting century-old heritage with modern businesses and rebuilding the relationship between people and these locations. Gradually, new possibilities emerge for residents and businesses, inspiring people to rediscover the evolving faces of these local shopping areas.

Curatorial Unit

MCMarchi

The design of spaces, essentially the design of human emotions, substantiates emotions and feelings through physical materials, converting the intangible into the tangible. With the belief at heart, MCMarchi, as a team with interdisciplinary professional backgrounds in design and business, has been dedicated to a wide variety of design fields encompassing architectural design, interior design, community development, exhibition space design, product design and marketing, where the team received recognitions from international design awards, affirming its endeavor on the practice of sustainable design for spaces and for societies. Taking pride in its capability to observe pr and solve problems systemically, MCMarchi will not cease to challenge the status quo and will continue to thrive with its clients in the pursuit of a sustainable built environment.

OUT OF OFFICE

OUT OF OFFICE is a creative team encompassing design, planning and visual work, and delivers groundbreaking results that exhilarate people.

HEM MEDIA

Specializing in visual storytelling, the firm strives to capture fleeting moments in culture and life via video productions and photography planning. Adept at lifestyle aesthetics and exhibition curation, the firm is highly experienced in organizing art, design, performance and lifestyle events home and abroad. Since 2011, the firm has hosted the "Good Home Project" for 8 consecutive years, for the purpose of sharing diverse lifestyles and enhancing Taiwan's brand power. This initiative has successfully energized the Taiwanese design industry and created a platform for business matchmaking.

Collaborative Curator

INPIN Design Institute

INPIN Design Institute aims to communicate the right values through impactful design. From brand planning to long-term brand development, we offer comprehensive strategic and visual design consulting. Our professional design services are backed by keen attention to market trends and social contexts. By analyzing and assessing various design projects, we provide tailored proposals that are actionable for realization. Our mission is to map out clients' visions and chart a clear path for the industry's future.

METAHOUSE

Based in southern Taiwan and established in 2019 in Tainan, Metahouse is driven by forward-thinking design principles, emphasizing the development of innovative spaces. We excel in leveraging structural characteristics to create dynamically changing environments and researching new materials and construction methods to integrate material architectural vocabulary into our spaces. Our projects primarily consists of public spaces, educational spaces and special reuse, such as schools, residences, and revitalization of old houses. In recent years, our projects have been honored with various awards including the iF Design Award, Japan Good Design Award, Golden Pin Design Award, Taiwan Interior Design Award, Taiwan Environment Lighting Award, Taiwan Real Estate Excellence Awards and Taipei Design Award.

Cooperative Partners

Advisor|Ministry of Economic Affairs(MOEA)

Organizer|Administration of Commerce, MOEA

Executive Organizer|Taiwan Design Research Institute

Co-Organizer|Tainan City Goverment Economic Development Bureau, Tainan City Market Adminstration Office

Local Organization|Tainan Confucius Temple Commercial District, Tainan Confucius Temple, Tainan Guohua Youai New Business District Development Association, Guohua Youai and Development Neighborhood Association, Tainan City Ximen Asakusa Public Retail Market Local self-governing, Wutiaogang Village

Curation Team : MCMarchi, OUT OF OFFICE, HEM MEDIA 

Collaborative Curation |INPIN Design Institute, METAHOUSE 

Special Thanks | Lai Ren, Ho Cing Hue, Yu YAMADA, Motoko Tanaka, Kumiko Inui and all participants

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