About Me
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About Me
Mei-Feng Lin 林美鳳
+886 934120860 yuigg2003@hotmail.com Department of Industrial Design, Cheng Kung National University
About Me
Education 2010 - Department of Industrial Design, Cheng Kung National University
Experience Activities
2011 Summer Conductor of Orientation Welcome Camp 2012 Spring Course Manager of 2012 NCKU Design Camp 2012 Autemn Chief Editor of Department Magazine 2013 Spring Mind the Gap Workshop with RCA Student 2013 - 2014 Team Leader of Graphic Design in Graduation Exhibition
Skills
Work Experience
2011, Winter Graphic and Flash Designer of Touch Center
2012, Spring Graphic Designer of KEER (International Conference on Kansei Enginerring and Emotion Research) 2012, Summer Graphic Designer of SPOSAD (MOE Scholarship Program for Overseas Study in Arts and Design) 2012, Autumn Intern of Studio YCYC 2013, Summer Intern of PNF Design Studio, London
Language
Sony Vegas
Chinese English Japanese
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Contents
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Product Design
Story Listener Cooking Studio Single-Handed Tourniquet Tennis Ball Collecting Machine Chrysanthemum
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Brand Design & Marketing
Graphic Design
Workshop Experience
Path
Poster Design
Mind the Gap Workshop
Notebook Camera Strap Pencil Case
Graphic Design Main Graphic View Desing of KEER
Photography
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Veggie Planet We make it a more intereseting thing to eat vegetables. 2014
Veggie Planet helps parents make vegetable powders easily. Using these powders as painting ingredients, children can paint on foods and observe the nutrition at the same time.
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Background About 40% of children in Taiwan hate eating vegetables and that causes some health problems. Experts suggest parents change their way to cook or do the dishes with their children to make children love eating vegetables. Therefore, we make some studies of materials and hope to create more use of vegetables to make children love them.
About DIY
Vegetable Powders
Valuing the safety of ingredients, we suggest parents can have this activity with children at home. We want to encourage children to eat vegetables. Morover, we hope them develop more abilities though the process.
Vegetable powders are used for seasonings as well as pigments for food. Children can use them to create and observe the nutrition at the same time. The powders are made of dried vegetables. We use microwave to dry these vegetable to keep more nutrition.
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Product After slicing, drying and grinding, we turn vegetables into podwers and then preserve them in specail pen. With this design, children can paint on their foods, having fun while they eat.
Slicer: Used to slice vegetab-les. Buckle the slicer and rack together to store. Also used as plate for placing slices.
Microwave Rack: There are 2 layers. Buckle them up when using. Outer rack can serve as vegetable drainer.
Grinder: Designed to put more dried vegetables. Combine it with the transparent bottle cap to load the powders.
Pens: Used to preserve the powders and be the painting pen at the same time. Turn the lid to sprinkle the powders.
Pen Set: Used to place the pens. In the drawer, toast boards and pattern lids are stored inside.
Toast Boards: Used to put on toasts to make certain patterns. Could be composed like puzzles.
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How to Use
Turn the outer rack upside down to rinse the vegetables. Put the slicer on the inner rack and slice the vegetables. After finished, overturn the slicer and inner rack at the same time and make the slices fall on the top of slicer.
Buckle the inner rack and the outer rack together. Put the sliced vegetalbes on the rack and then put it into the microwave oven. Finally, set different time and power depending on the kind of vegetables. The slices must be dried totally.
Put the dried slices into the opened grinder. Unscrew the transparent bottle cap and then screw on the grinder.
Crank the grinder to mill the dried slice. The cap of grinder and the alien will rotate at the same time. After grinded, the vegetable powder will fall into the bottle cap.
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Video of Using Direction and Scenario
Screw the pen on the pen cap which filled with powder. Turn the pen cap and the powder will sprinkle in a shape. There are three pens for different powders. Use these pens to create some patterns on foods.
Overturn the pen and open the pattern lid. Choose the ideal pattern from the set and cover back the lid. There are six kinds of patterns.
Pick up all the puzzle plates and compose the head, body and feet for an ideal look. There are three kinds of aliens. With this, children could create what they like.
Put the finished plates on a slice of toast. Shake the pen of different color powder above it for a few times. After picking up the plates, there will be a colorful pattern.
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Scenario Consider of how busy the parents would be, we suggest parents make enough amounts of the vegetable powders. The powder could be placed to maximum two weeks. Besides, using microwaves to dry saves lots of time than other ways. Pens and the set are suggested to be put on dinner table that children could use directly while they eating.
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Recipies e provide some special recipes for parents. For example, the powders could be added into dough to make colorful cookies and flavorous noodles. It can even be used to make edible safe clay.
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CAKE
ICE CREAM
CONGEE
SOUP
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麵條 NOODLES
中筋麵粉 500g 水 180g 鹽 1 茶匙 高筋麵粉 適量
水餃 DUMPLING 中筋麵粉 300g 水 170g 鹽 1/2 茶匙 豬絞肉 100g 鹽 1/2 茶匙 水 2 湯匙 醬油 1 湯匙 胡椒粉 1/8 茶匙 蔥 兩根 高麗菜 300g
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湯圓 TA N G Y U A N
糯米粉 100g 水 70g 黑糖 適量
餅乾 COOKIE
蛋 1 個 細砂糖 50 g 奶油 120 g 低筋麵粉 250 g 泡打粉 1/2 茶匙 鹽 少許
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Story Listener Parent-Child Interactive Bedside Lamp 2012
Story Listener is a pare of bedside lamps, which could be switched on only by happy voices made from both parents and children such as the voices of telling stories, chatting or having fun. With this design, we want to enhance the interaction between parents and children. The unique design makes the lamps couldn’t be turned on while the mother bird and the eggs are separated, creating the feature of “Love exists when both of parents and children are staying together �.
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Design Purpose To make it a better parent-child interaction.
In modern Asia society, dual-earner parents and school going children has been the most common type of family structure. Parents and children are often separated by time and distance. Family time reduced rapidly during the last decades. Parents pay much more time on works due to the increased workloads, yet leave it a hard situation to build strong relationship in the family. Intimate relationships between them become very difficult to develop due to the time constraint. However, a good relationship between parents and children is one of the most essential elements of child development. Parents should provide their children without enough company and
communication, or it will influence their abilities such as language development . Early child need to develop their ability performance in a rich company and interaction environment. Our design research and the following product design focus on how to create more and better interactions between parents and children. We want to enhance the intimate connection through our design, making it a good experience to communicate and interact.
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Sharing the Love and Warm
We love the act of sharing. The way of sharing can also be the process of delivering love. We want to make a thing that can not only used by one side, but both parents and children can interact with each other. We also want to creat a feature of warm, make it a better experience when interacting.
Story Telling
The scene of story telling mother who sits beside your bed can still be a good memory even when you grow up. Therefore, we chose the "story telling" to be our medium for interacting.
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Concept The conceptual lamp takes birds and eggs as the image to resemble a warm relationship between mother and children. It has two parts, a mother bird and three eggs. The mother bird is designed to sit on the twig and be put beside parents’ bed, and the eggs in nest are for children. Before the children go to sleep, the parents could take the mother bird to the eggs. Lights in both the bird and eggs can be turned on when parents and child do the activities such as storytelling and chatting before bed. When the device in the lamp receives the happy voices from them, the lights will slowly glow. After the children sleep, the parents can leave with a lit bird, and the eggs are left for the children. These eggs will remain for hours which can be set by parents. This way, when children want to go to the bathroom in the midnight, they can take an egg light with them
instead of walking alone in the dark. There are two conditions in this design, the first one is that both the mother bird and the eggs must be put together, and the other is that when happy voices are received by the lamp the lights can be turned on. These constraints can not only create the feature of passing love but push parents to interact with their children actively. When the mother bird comes to the eggs and lights the light on, the action symbolizes the pass of love from parents. We hope to create a picture that the parents deliver their love and give warm light to their children vividly. Due to the images, we named this lamp the “Story Listener”.
How to use
Before bed, parents take the mother bird off the twig.
Put the mother bird onto the nest beside children’s bed.
After the Automated Recognition of Emotion devices detects the good voices made by both patrents and children, the lights slowly glow.
The mother bird could be taken back to the tree, being as parents’ bedside light. The warm e g g s w i l l b e l ef t fo r children.
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Each Parts THE NEST
Details THE MOTHER BIRD
The mother bird lamp. After the light is turned on, it could be switched of by hand.
The nest is also the bettery charger of the eggs. There are circles for placing. TIME SETTING
How long the light lasts could be set under the nest.
THE TREE
The seat of the mother bird, which is also her battery charger.
THE EGGS
There are three eggs covered by silica gel. Condsidered children’s safty, the eggs are electrified in a wireless way. There is no switch on the sufaces.
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Interview User Testing We made the test with 4 pairs of children and parents. First, we used the painted bird to test the color. Second, we asked the children to hold the bird and eggs to make sure they were in proper sizes . In the test of touch, they were asked to feel the texture of the models. Finally, they were asked to talk about the feelings of the overall model and the ideation. The result of the test was encouraging since we realize the users were really found of this lamp especially the children. They showed their interests to the mother bird and eggs. And the parents liked the image of love.
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To make the model, we have tried so many different kind of materials. We almost lived in the studio for one month. To make a wireless egg light and soft texture, we have to try many different kinds of materials and try to arrange the size and procedure to make everything combine well. No pain, no gain. I believe the result is sweet; our egg line can really be turned on with no wires, and it does feel soft!
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Plaster cast making
Mold removal
LED inductance light installing
Finish
Egg
Silicone subber making
Wood Carving
We've made more than 15 eggs with 6 different metirals.
Twig
Clay model
Bird
Vacum forming
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Product in Action We filmed two vedio clips to exam the result of our design. In the first part, users were a 4-year-old boy and his mother. The boy at first was not so excitied about the story telling. But when the light was turned on, he was surprised and curious. After he held the egg to sleep, he felt warm and safe. There were a 2-year-old girl, a 4-year old boy and their mother in the second part. The atmoshpere was already great when the mother was telling the story. After the light was turned on, the boy was so excited.
Story Listener Video
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Cooking Studio A moving island for your kitchen, providing a more convenient way to cook. 2013
Cooking Studio is extremely portable and allows for flexible usage to suit different needs. At the same time, it is a handy helper at outdoor parties and picnics, effectively extending your kitchen space to anywhere you desire!
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Concept While cooking, aren’t we most bothered by the sight of messy and unwashed dishes? This is especially so for cooking novices, whose biggest problem may be feeling disorganised in a messy kitchen. Instead of just enlarging one’s cooking area, we hope to encourage users to practise misc-en-place before cooking, i.e. to prepare all ingredients and condiments needed before actual cooking starts, so that cooking time can be used more efficiently.
1. ENLARGE WORKING SPACE Cooking at home will now be a breeze with Cooking Studio. We have designed various spaces that allows the working area in the kitchen to be enlarged. We hope to create a better environment for users to be able to be more organised when it comes to cooking.
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3. REDUCE DISHES BEING USED Specially designed plates allow the user to transfer food from the chopping board to it swiftly. With magnets attached on the underside, it allows for easy handling and portability, yet does not move about unneccessarily. Users no longer have to use unneccessary amounts of dishes while cooking.
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Collapsible Kitchen
The topic given is to solve the excisting problems in the nowaday kicthen, with the idea of "collapsible item".
Sketches
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Mock-ups
Model Making
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How to Use
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Single-Handed Tourniquet To create an easier and more convenient way to use a tourniquet single-handedly. 2012
Single-Handed Tourniquet reforms the traditional way of stopping the effusion of blood. With a pick to twist the strap, the patient could easily adjust the elasticity. And the band at the bottom not only makes the tourniquet stable but protects the skin from getting injured.
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Problems of Exsiting Tourniquet 1. Steps are too hard to remember. Some of the hemostasia are too difficult to rememeber even a nurse can easily forget. Also there are many ways to stop bleeding but people will suddenly forget which one is better to use in the situation
2. The rope is too thin that might hurt your skin. The latex tourniquet is too thin that probably cause serious damage to the skin and the nerves. The pressure is difficult to control, especially when the user is not professional.
3. Most of the tourniquet cannot be used alone. Most of them can’t be finished alone. When you get hurt alone, the situation could be dangerous becuase there will be no way to save you from bleeding.
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Single-Handed Tourniquet Button
Velcro
Adjusting Strap Pick
To improve the existing problems, Single-Handed Tourniquet reforms the traditional way of stopping the effusion of blood. With a pick to twist the strap, the patient could easily adjust the elasticity. And the band at the bottom not only makes the tourniquet stable but protects the skin from getting injured. Single-Handed Tourniquet can be used while the injured is alone,providing the first time aid to the urgent situation. The rate of recovery can be higher after use it.
1 Put on the tourniquet with the velcro.
2 Put on the tourniquet
with the velcro.Twist the strap by the pick, adjusting the elasticity.
3 Button up the pick.
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Tennis ball Collecting Machine More convinient and faster way to collect your tennis ball. 2012
To solve the problem of scattering tennis balls around the court when people play tennis, we designed this tennis collecting machine. It is equiped with detecting sensor, which makes it detect the tennis ball and collect it automatically. It can also detect the distance from obstacles, and then it will make a turn to prevent itself from crushing on it. With this collecting machine, we hope to provied an easier way to play tennis.
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Existing Problem Dut to the scattering tennis balls around the court when people play tennis, this machine is designed to solve the problem, making it a more convenient and easier way to play tennis.
Concept The tennis ball collection machine could move around the court to collect balls without human’s control , and the balls would be sent to the basket behind the machine by a track. It could detect the weight and move back to the setted place when the weight reaches the maximum. If players want to collect the balls, just pick up the basket and the machine would stop itself. It is easy to storage the machine. Just pick it up by the handle on the top and bring it back to the side of the court or indoor. It could also stand beside the wall due to the shape we designed.
Collect tennis balls automatically by moving around the court.
Picked up by the handle at the top, providing an easy way to storage.
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LEGO Robot Model Learn to overcome the limits. In this design, we were asked to use LEGO to make the model. There is a deveice produced by LEGO called "Mindstorms". It is a series of kits contain software and hardware to create small, customizable and programmable robots. With this device, it could make the model move, but it could also bring a lot of difficulties to us. The abilities of this LEGO device were limited, so we were forced to change the design in many times dut to the functional constraints. In order to make it a real model which was workable, we had to change our concept again and again. However, we have learned a lot from the desgin process. We can't always design what we want. In the reality world, design can be limited a lot due to the way of manufacture, materials and costs. How to combine these elements together and manage them well is what designers should do. We are responsible to solve the problem.
It is workable! It can move around, collect the ball, stop when it detect an obstacle and then make a turn.
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Tape Dispenser 2010
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Chrysanthemum
Epaltes Astralis Les
How charming it would be if a tape dispenser looks like an elegant flower. Chrysanthemum, a tape dispenser which is shaped by a kind of lovely flowers, Epaltes Astralis Les, looks like a real flower. Unlike other tape dispensers, Chrysanthemum makes it possible to have a tape dispenser like this. It is expected to bring you a smell of nature spring, leading you to embrace the outdoor vitality. Because of the slender shape, it looks great in a brush pot or vases. How to use it? Hold the stick and pull your tape from the flower, then you cut it down by the blade on the branch.
Tape Dispenser
Blade
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Brand Design & Marketing
Brand Design & Marketing
Brand Design & Marketing
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Your Traveling Friend - Traveling Notebook - Camera Strap - Pencil Case 2012
In November, 2012, 4 friends and I established a brand called "Path". We want to design for those who love to travel or who are eager to travel. With our design, we hope a journey could be more convenient and comfortable. There are 4 products in our brand: traveling notebook, camera strap, pencil case and post cards.
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Collecting and Recording
Traveling Notebook Size - 20x13cm / Thickness - 1.2cm Color - Brown / Blue / Almond / Hunter Green Every notebook has one black strap.
Many people are used to collect post cards, tickets or maps in their journey, because we are afraid to forget those which are memorable. We collect all we can collect, write down everything we meet and take photos of anything we see, in case that when we are older, nothing can we remember. Therefore, we decide to make a notebook, which is about collecting and recording. We made a big pocket on the front cover for collecting. For recording, we print the scale line in the book that we can record our journey by writing down the distance of memorable things. The most important of all, with this book, all of us can enjoy every our little adventure.
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Camera Strap
Pencil Case
Size - 60cm Color - Brown / Blue / Hunter Green / Almond Every camera strap has one pocket.
Size - 60cm Color - Blue / Brown / Hunter Green / Almond
Camera strap is another essential thing in journey for those who love to record their life and experience by photo shooting. So we aimed to design a more comfortable and helpful camera strap for travelers. The most special design is that we made a pocket for the camera. With the little pocket, you no longer have to worry about where to put your lens cap. It gives your lens cap a safe shelter.
We don't want to bring too much things while we're traveling. Everything is better to be light and small. Considering about this situation, we designed a kind of small pencil case. With this pencil case, you can only bring 4-6 pens with you. Just make your travel lighter!
The little pocket provide you with a place to put your lens caps and betteries. It is detachable.
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Online Advertising
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Vedio Clip Image Advertising
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Discussion
Path 2012/08 Estibilshment - We foamed the group. 2012/10 Brand name decieded - "Path" 2012/10/28 Facebook fan club opened. 2012/11/10 Path vedio clip filming 2012/11/16-18 Market - Tree Festival 2012/12/02 Market - Lisa Bazaar 2012/12/09 Pinkoi - Online market opened 2012/12/23 Market - Marketx/Chirstmas 2013/02/8-03/31 Exhibition - Tainan 2013/03/23 Market - Marketx/Life Festival 2013/05/03-12 Market - Youth Innovative Design Festival 2013/05/25 Market - Charity Bazaar
Hand Making
Facebook Fan Club
Moscot: Collect (left), Record(right)
Brand Design & Marketing
Vedio Clip Filming
Market
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Photo Shooting
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Graphic Design of Graduation Exhibition POSTER DESIGN BOOK STICKER CM CARD NAME CARD
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台灣感性學會 Taiwan Institute of Kansei
Main Vision Design of Keer-International Conference Poster Illustrator 2012
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台灣感性學會 Taiwan Institute of Kansei
Cover of Essay Collection
Makung Airport
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Green Kansei
台灣感性學會 Taiwan Institute of Kansei
Poster of Airport Information
- Bag - Badges - Water Cup
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Poster Photoshop / Illustrator 2012
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Graphic Design Photoshop / Illustrator 2012
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Poster Photoshop / Illustrator 2013
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Workshop Experience
Wokshop Experience
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Mind the Gap Workshop 2013 Spring With students from Royal College of Art (platform 17)
Mind the Gap is a workshop that combines the students from NCKU and RCA, making us working together to do a design project. Gaps are everywhere. What we did was to find the gap which we concerned about more, and then make a design for it. Scenarios were set in the train station, a place we really have to "Mind the Gap". This was my first time to cooperate with international students. I have learned so much, including the way they think and design, the view they see in the same thing. Though we came from different places, it felt really good to know each other and work together, sharing our oppinions and experiences. The most important of all, we were having so much fun.
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Tomomi Tomomi is a Japenese girl who now live in London. She is always energetic, curious about everything and brave enough to try anything strange. To help her to finish the "LOVETRAIN" project, we took her to visit the railway club, found some users to make the test, going around the train station filming. Those were really good memories, and we made lots of friends because of this chance. It was a special and unforgetable experiences working with Tomomi.
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Final Project Group 11 Tomomi Sayuda Mei-Feng, Lin Platform 17, Department of Royal college of Art Industrial Design, National Cheng Kung University
Trainspotting tour all over the world!
Trainspotting is an activity to transform boring everyday environment into an entertainment. Everyone doesn’t do it normally, but I would like to encourage more people to do the activity to add another perspective of everyday transports. People might find something new if I will explain about trains differently. I am from Japan where we have massive culture and demand for train spotting. I would like to compare how people will react if I encourage to do train spotting in different locations in Tainan, Tokyo and London.
Train station is not only for transportation but also a part of daily life for some of the people such as commuters and students. They come to the station almost every day but it seems to be no strong emotional association between the people and the station. Thus, we are seeking for a solution that can make the connection stronger and ease the bad emotion such as loneliness or boring. We came up with an idea of building a little farm in the station which is called “Station Farmer”. It’s a small garden that gathers people to take care of the plants such as mushrooms together. This way, the connection could be stronger through the interaction. There is digital board which would show the information of the mushroom and send the message of humidity from the plants. There is also an app for people who may want to check the growth of the plants by instant video even when they are in different places. We hope that through this design, people can feel more senses of belongings in this special train station.
Shih-Ming, Wang Department of Resource and Engineering, National Cheng Kung University
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2010 TLR Twin-lens reflex camera Otaru, Hokkaido, Japan
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2011 Vivitar Taichung, Taiwan
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2012 Vivitar Kenting, Taiwan
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Mei-Feng, Lin +886 934120860 yuigg2003@hotmail.com Department of Industrial Design, Cheng Kung National University
Mei-Feng, Lin +886 934120860 yuigg2003@hotmail.com Department of Industrial Design, Cheng Kung National University