Press Release
Bronze A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design Goes to Literature Senses Literary Space by FunDesign.tv
The international grand jury of the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes FunDesign.tv for interior space and exhibition design
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COMO, Italy, April 28, 2022 /DesignNewswire/ Literature Senses Literary Space by FunDesign.tv, designed for Cultural Affairs Bureau, Tainan City Government, has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Interior Space and Exhibition Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The award was conferred within the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition and was reached through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
What the Bronze A' Design Award Means
The Bronze A' Design Award is given to outstanding designs that showcase a high degree of creativity and practicality. It recognizes the dedication and skill of designers who produce work that stands out for its thoughtful development and innovative use of materials and technology. These designs are acknowledged for their professional execution and potential to influence industry standards positively. Winning this award highlights the designer's ability to blend form and function effectively, offering solutions that enhance people's lives and wellbeing.
More About Literature Senses Literary Space
Literature Senses is the interior design of a literary memorial museum in Tainan, Taiwan, set in a building nearly one hundred years old and covering 270 square meters on two floors. The design links literature with the five senses. The ground floor holds a cafe where text silhouettes, table decorations, menus and meals carry excerpts from the writer's works, including a locally roasted coffee served in an ink tank. On the second floor, layered curtains display the names of novel characters, and an online guide system allows visitors to read their stories.
About FunDesign.tv
The Taipei-based media platform has devoted itself to curating design and art exhibitions, artistic creativity development, and cross-cultural exchange since 2012. Conceptual development, exhibition planning, exhibition, event production, event management, artistic marketing, and media resources integration are some of their services.
Award Record
This recognition makes FunDesign.tv a winner of 3 A' Design Awards. The awards span the editions from 2019 - 2020 to 2021 - 2022 of the A' Design Award & Competition.
About the A' Interior Space, Retail and Exhibition Design Award
The A' Interior Design Award is an international interior design competition recognizing good interior designs by interior designers and architects worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to interior designers, interior architects, architects and decorators from all countries. Entries typically include residential interiors, restaurants, hotels, offices, galleries and retail stores. Awarded interior designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/interior
About A' Design Award & Competition
A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade organized annually since 2008. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The A' Design Award has a philanthropic mission to advance society through good design by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Entries are peer reviewed and anonymously evaluated by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. The A' Design Prize granted to eligible laureates includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, the upload of a work and the preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. Further information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://dezigners.org/140020
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/140020
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!140020
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/267947
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://reurl.cc/Go8N0A
Media Contact
Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
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Via Leone Leoni 32, 22100 Como, Italy
press@designers.org
+39 031 4491953
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Literature Senses Literary Space
- Function
- Literary Space
- Category
- Interior Space and Exhibition Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Packaging & Retail
- Colors
- Dark Slate Gray, Midnight Blue, Teal, Black and Dim Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Cultural Affairs Bureau, Tainan City Government
The Recognition
- Laureate
- FunDesign.tv
- Country
- Taiwan (China)
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2021 - 2022
- Design ID
- #140020
Credits
- Team
- Carrie Chang / Curator, SK Chen / Curator, Yating Yu / Curator and FunDesign.tv / Designer
- Image Credits
- FunDesign.tv
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- The Yeh Shyr-Tau literary memorial museum (former forestry affairs office) opened in 2012 as Taiwan's first important writer memorial hall. In this nearly 100-year-old building, they try to unite literature with emotional elements to create a literary compound space suitable for modern use and bring to life the emotional atmosphere of the writer's words through the five senses.
- Inspiration
- Yeh Shyr-Tau is a well-known writer in Taiwan. As he once said, "I have always believed that literature is the salt of the earth." From sight (physical and virtual parallel), auditory (playing Mr. Yeh's favorite classical music), taste (creating characteristic and creative food and beverages), smell (developing classic scented tea from novel sentences), and touch (cultural and creative products limited to laser engraving), curation aims to create scenarios for all senses.
- Research
- While taking the stairs to the second floor, and crossing the long corridor of the museum, visitors walk into the world of Yeh’s novels step by step. The names of characters appearing in Yeh’s novels are displayed under the ceiling of the cloister with layers of the curtain. The overlapping curtains also allude to the multiverse time and space constructed by Yeh’s novels, and the characters are like providing a stargate through time and space, leading visitors into the world of literature. While looking up at this literary starry sky, visitors can connect to the online guide system to read the stories between the characters.
- Challenge
- They need to find out the experiences of Yeh Shyr-Tau in various periods from historical documents, as well as the works reflecting Mr. Ye's residence at that time, and fully present them in the exhibition in the form of texts, photos, and videos, and in an immersive way to create the scene that easy to make a photo for social media to match the modern viewing habit.
- Realization and Technology
- They try to create something interesting that connects to the museum's theme. After finding that "Drink ink", a Chinese expression, refers to a learned person or a writer, they developed the idea of putting locally roasted coffee into an ink tank as a special beverage called "ink coffee".
- Operation and Interaction
- The first-floor area incorporates Yeh's elements into the design of the cafe, surrounding text silhouettes, table decorations, menus, and meals, In the form of excerpts of famous sentences or short essays. Whether you are here for the exhibition, or just simply enjoy a leisurely afternoon, Yeh's literary heritage in such an atmosphere will perfectly balanced.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started to renovate in Oct 2021 in Tainan and opened to the public in Nov 2021.
- Specifications
- Total 270 square meters. (1F&2F)
- Keywords
- Curation, Renovation, Exhibition, Coffee, Taiwan, Tainan, literature, Writer, 5 senses
