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Shang Shui Historic Reminder by Yueh Mei Cheng Is Granted the Bronze A' Design Award in Installation Design
Yueh Mei Cheng honored for installation design by the international grand jury of the 2023 - 2024 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 22, 2024 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Bronze A' Design Award in the Installation Design category for Shang Shui Historic Reminder by Yueh Mei Cheng, designed for Taichung Mass Rapid Transit Corporation. The recognition forms part of the 2023 - 2024 A' Design Award & Competition and was decided through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who evaluated anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
The Bronze A' Design Award Explained
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 Shang Shui Historic Reminder
The Shang Shui integrates four design elements like tobacco, irrigated water channels, sustainable sources, and the light of hope. They symbolize the memories of Old Taichung-Jiushe, blending the hundred-year development history and land memories of Taichung into the art. Utilizing Augmented Reality, it creates an immersive vision, allowing passengers passing through the Jiushe to witness the history of Taichung's development, thus bringing the environment closer to people. The shimmering water ripples on the ground are given a life-like quality, infusing the site with abundant energy.
About Yueh Mei Cheng
Yueh Mei Cheng is a distinguished professor at the School of Architecture at Feng Chia University in Taiwan. Her creative endeavors span various mixed media and interactive digital technologies, synthesizing Eastern and Western art theories into a cohesive and expansive artistic style and form. Her works present a diverse and rich cross-cultural contemporary perspective, serving as a perfect interpretation of the fusion between Eastern and Western cultures.
Award Record
Yueh Mei Cheng is a winner of 1 A' Design Award, including this recognition.
About the A' Interactive, Experiential and Immersive Design Installations Award
The A' Installation Design Award is an international installation design competition recognizing good installation designs by best installation designers worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to installation designers, experiential design studios, interactive design agencies and immersive technology experts from all countries. Entries typically include sculptural installations, light installations, sound installations, digital installations, kinetic installations and site-specific installations. Awarded interactive installation designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/installation
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/151934
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/151934
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!151934
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/345772
- Further Information from the Laureate: https://shorturl.at/fHOY4
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Shang Shui Historic Reminder
- Function
- Historic Reminder
- Category
- Installation Design
- Discipline
- Communication Design
- Industry
- Arts and Branding & Advertising
- Colors
- Dark Slate Gray, Dim Gray, Gainsboro, White Smoke and Black
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Taichung Mass Rapid Transit Corporation
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Yueh Mei Cheng
- Country
- Taiwan (China)
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2023 - 2024
- Design ID
- #151934
Credits
- Team
- Boxing Landscape Co., Ltd., Ming Yu Hsiao, Yu Chuan Chen, Hung i Tai and Yu Fan He
- Image Credits
- Main image: Photographer Chun Li, Shang Shui, 2022 Option; Photographer Chun Li, Shang Shui, 2022 Option; Photographer Chun Li, Shang Shui, 2022 Video credits: Chun Li, Yu Fan He, 2022
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- The interactive design delicately evokes viewers emotions, creating an additional mobile visual world within the artwork. AR enhances the interaction between passengers and the space, transforming the MRT station from just some place people pass by into a hub where passengers can experience the past and present of Jiushe, continuing their journey with newfound satisfaction and joy.
- Inspiration
- Shang Shui, also known as Water of Life in English, depicts the history of an irrigation channel branching off from the Dajia River, used for watering tobacco leaves in Jiushe. The MRT line now brings convenience and endless vitality to Jiushe. Shang Shui, derived from the Taiwanese expression for “most beautiful,” represents the local essence of "water and light" as symbols of the area's lifeline, conveying the notions of "sustainability" and "prosperity".
- Research
- During the Yongzheng era, the irrigation system was developed to divert water from the Dajia River to the Taichung area, with the Leigong River in Jiushe serving as a crucial point for water diversion. During the Japanese rule period, the Japanese introduced tobacco leaves to Taiwan, and with the help of the advanced irrigation system, tobacco exports became one of the major sources of local income in Jiushe. In 1898, during the heyday of tobacco cultivation, the area where Jiushe Station is now located was called the "Jiushe Village " during the Japanese rule period. At that time, the area was predominantly paddy fields and tobacco fields.
- Challenge
- The mirrored stainless steel design of the "circle" in this artwork is intended to symbolize the "wholeness" brought by water and light in terms of creative concept. However, lifting, securing, and aligning it posed a significant challenge. In the end, the decision was made to cut the circular steel structure into four equal parts and design connecting arms at the seams. This installation method simultaneously addressed concerns related to aesthetics, structure, installation, and future thermal expansion and contraction.
- Realization and Technology
- The main material used in the artwork is mirror-finish stainless steel sheets.
- Operation and Interaction
- Under the mirror stainless steel lighting plates around the center are three interactive AR installations. Viewers can interact with these AR devices and learn about the past beauty and glory of Jiushe through three scenarios. Passengers can capture different postures and appearances of the works, and save the images to recall the old stories of Jiushe.
- Project Duration and Location
- The artwork is complete and open in July 2022 and it is located in MRT Jiushe station, Beitun District, Taichung, Taiwan.
- Specifications
- 700cm x 700cm x 507.5cm
- Keywords
- Public Space, Public Art, AR, Interaction, History, Memory
