2021 CIRCULAR DESIGN GUIDELINE

Circular Design Applications

Innovative service model and design

The first company to establish a cross-field sustainability exchange platform: Design Makes “Us” Better

“Circle Journey” hotel redesign

Value-added applications of circular material design

Establish a recycled materials knowledge platform: MINIWIZ Material Database

Tea Aroma Face Masks

Foreword Introduction Introduction of Circular Design Tools

Guidance Tools and Processes

Circular Design Applications

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Innovative design seminars

Design exchange visits

Corporate innovation workshop

Circular design principles

Set Guidelines Leading Circular Design to Develop Ecology 16 18 22 24

Integration and innovation of circular system designs

Innovative Ward Designs - MAC Ward

Glass revival with circular design - W Spring Pool Project

Full circular design and development for products

Upgrade of all Cha Tzu Tang bottles - Camellia seed oil and toiletries

O’right ±R Project: New options for zero-carbon sustainability

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Circular Design Promotion

Environmentally friendly, recycled modular construction materials that comply with circular designs

Pioneer project for circular buildings: 3D printers X innovations in circular material designs

RePlay: Pollution-free ocean and beach toy sets

REstone: Development and design of artificial stone materials made from discarded electronics

Transforming discarded clothing into innovative building materialsClothing fiber wood

exhibition | 2018 Are you in the loop? Circular design exhibition

exhibition | 2020 The Next Decade circular design exhibition

Awards | Circular Design Special Award, Golden Pin Awards

Select Shop | Design Pin Circular Design Exhibition

Themed Display and Sales Area

Yodex industry-academia cooperation projects for design

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Design Research Institute

President Chi-Yi Chang

Chairman Tim Brown of IDEO, a world-renowned innovative design consulting firm, said, “Circular design is the next focus of the design industry. The Taiwan Design Research Institute has also noticed this trend and began promoting circular designs in 2017. It has organized several themed lectures, workshops, and circular design exchanges with developed countries, such as the Netherlands, Germany, and Japan, in order to strengthen the study and understanding of circular design processes. In 2018, the Institute organized the first “Circular design exhibition - Are you in the loop? In 2020, the Institute launched “The Next Decade circular design exhibition”, which received excellent responses.

Starting in 2019, the COVID-19 pandemic has ravaged the world. The Design Research Institute partnered with Fu Jen University Hospital and Miniwiz to develop the modularized smart ward, MAC WARD. The Institute introduced circular designs to redefine the medical space. Assembly and ward function conversion (general/ICU/quarantine/ negative pressure) can be completed within 48 hours to respond to medical needs in real time. It has revolutionized hospital wards. The construction material used for the structure of the ward is mainly antibacterial and recyclable aluminum. In the ward, recycled PP plastics are used to produce the latches. Without the use of chemical adhesives, the generation of volatile organic compounds can be reduced and the overall structure is 80% recyclable. The innovative design won the Asia Pacific Social Innovation Partnership Award, Golden Pin Design Award, iF Design Award, Good Design, and National Innovation Award, and has been officially implemented in epidemic prevention dedicated wards in New Taipei City in June 2021.

Apart from the medical industry, the Design Research Institute is also actively promoting the implementation of circular design in a diverse range of fields. For example, Cha Tzu Tang has created comprehensive, circular packaging from the production site to the consumer based on design. Circular designs have also been incorporated in the products. They aim to drive shared investment with manufacturing partners and establish a circular system. Spring Pool Glass has partnered with known tea and catering brands through the Design Research Institute to create new products, making circular, recycled glass containers into the ambassador for promoting circular economy. Circular tokens have been introduced in the business model for innovation. The

SET GUIDELINES LEADING CIRCULAR DESIGN TO DEVELOP ECOLOGY

Design Research Institute has also assisted Carrefour in planning its influential concept stores. Not only have circular design concepts been incorporated in the store space, UN SDGs have also been referenced in the stipulation of product selection principles, fulfilling the ideals of sustainable consumption. We partnered with Folio Hotel Daan Taipei to design two rooms based on circular concepts and the theme of “circular journey”. We creatively placed products from over 10 circular design brands in Taiwan in the rooms for the guests. We have also organized circular design DIY courses, which has not only increased room prices, but also attracted exposure in the media and on social media.

In addition to multiple exhibitions and diverse industry application promotion, the Golden Pin Design Award, executed by the Design Research Institute for many years, has added an Annual Special Award since 2018. Circular design is one of the focuses. The Golden Pin New Talent Design Award followed suit and added the “Circular Design Special Award” in 2020 to encourage new designers to use circular thinking and creativity when finding innovative solutions for environmental issues. Furthermore, the design display and sales channel managed by the Design Research Institute, Design Point, introduced selected products for sale in cooperation with the circular design exhibitions, allowing members of the public to support the circular economy through their actions after visiting the exhibitions.

Circular design is not only a breakthrough in perspective, it also requires innovation and revolution of materials, production processes, design, business models, and marketing. We have collected successful cases of implementation and the experiences of the Design Research Institute related to circular design in recent years, and compiled the “Circular Design Principle Guide”. We hope to provide a reference for companies who wish to introduce circular design thinking and accelerate the process for them, in order to walk the path of circular design together.

Taiwan

IntroductionAfter the Industrial Revolution, technology developed rapidly, economies grew in scale, and human life became plentiful. In the 20th century, global warming, climate anomalies, and resource scarcity worsened the living environment for humans. With the depleting resources on this Earth, the ability to create a sustainable cycle of materials has become an important issue facing all industries. In particular, with Taiwan being an island economy with limited natural resources, we have to import most of our raw materials. We have utilize every resource effectively and view resources with a global perspective. Taiwan, which is export-oriented and OEM-oriented, considers the overall sustainable development trend in the international economy and the increasing demand for supply chain sustainability of multinational companies. We must be prepared in advance.

In order to help Taiwanese corporations face the rapid changes and developments in the industry and environment with valuable and effective solutions, Taiwan Design Research Institute (TDRI) began promoting circular design in 2017. TDRI used design to introduce circular systems and help each industry implement circular innovations. The realest and deepest needs of the users are discovered to design new products, services, and systems that comply with the circular system, in order to create sustainable manufacturing and a consumer ecology.

The book will share TDRI’s processes and projects for promoting circular design. From circular design evaluation and study, exchange seminars and workshops, industry guidance, to exhibitions and promotion, we are cultivating circular design in Taiwanese industries step by step, and will promote circular ideals even further.

Introduction of Circular Design Tools

Circular design holds a significant place in industry development. When faced with cross-field and complex issues, systematic and structured design methods and tools and visualized interfaces for design tools can allow teams to have a shared language, helping teams reach a consensus and accelerating the development process.

For example, The Circular Design Guide, developed by IDEO in partnership with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation (EMF) 1, provides design-oriented entry tools and application resources for circular design. It is able to assist the agile design of circular products and services, as well as lower the knowledge threshold for the issues. The Guide increases implementation opportunities for application and new knowledge can be created through these actions (Lockton et al., 2020)2. During the design development process, the tangible card tools summarize the important information, guide thinking, and encourage external exchanges, which in turn, can inspire creativity, organization, and idea exchanges (Roy & Warren, 2019)3.

1. The Circular Design Guide: https://www.circulardesignguide.com/

2. Lockton, D., Brawley, L., Ulloa, M. A., Prindible, M., Forlano, L., Rygh, K., ... & Nissen, B. (2019). Tangible thinking: Materializing how we imagine and understand systems, experiences, and relationships.

3. Roy, R., & Warren, J. P. (2019). Card-based design tools: A review and analysis of 155 card decks for designers and designing. Design Studies, 63, 125-154.

THE CIRCULAR DESIGN GUIDE

Circular design is implemented in every stage of a product or service lifecycle through “Design Thinking”. In principle, its true value is helping people understand that supporting circular design products and services does not mean a loss of quality, but is another way of realizing sustainable developments for society and the environment. Ideal circular design must successfully convey value to the consumer and effectively enter the customer perceived value. The value must be increased through innovation on different levels. Moreno et al. 4 proposed the value stream of a circular economy, which is divided into four models :

① narrowing resource flows

② cascade use

③ cycling for longer

④ slowing resource loops

The value stream is the value-adding process of converting raw materials into products. Although there have been many different circular economy models mentioned so far, they can be classified as one of two types, material-oriented or serviceoriented. Among the numerous cases, we found that the material-oriented value creation model (i.e. ASUS) can not only help companies reduce existing resource waste, but can also help the development of renewable materials and energies, supplementing the daily needs of people. On the other hand, the service-oriented value creation model (i.e. Philips lighting) can develop new business models with high-value and that can satisfy more personalized needs. According to the four value classifications for circular economies described above, the following four circular design models and related case descriptions have been compiled:

How can companies implement circular designs? When circular design principles and theories are implemented in different fields, corresponding adjustments have to be made and circular implementation methods have to be created. The current methods can be reviewed to redefine the execution methods after circular strategies are introduced. Due to differences in the characteristics and development processes of different industries, when applying circular designs, principles have been formulated to develop the tools and guiding methodology for specific industries. For example: The US sporting brand, NIKE, the Swedish houseware retailer, IKEA, the Danish pharmaceutical company, Novonordisk, and even the Greater London City Government in the UK have established corresponding methodologies and implementation strategies to develop and accelerate the introduction of circular designs.

The circular guide can be divided into three levels: 1. Establish circular design principles (theory). 2. Define practical application guidelines. 3. Propose implementation and execution methods. The results of the three levels will be used to create circular design tools for practical applications.

Narrowing Resource Flows Cascade Use Cycling for Longer

Enterprise/Unit Guide name Industry Type Guide Overview

Material Orientated Service Orientated

Provide renewable energies, materials, and recyclable materials to replace linear lifecycles.

Steadily recycle and reuse the waste of others to develop high-value products.

· Design easily recycled and remanufactured products.

· Design high-quality and more durable products.

Provide product repair services.

· Spring Pool Glass.

· Jang Chang Lumber.

· ASUS. Apple Renew Program in the US.

· Plastico plastic bag experiment project

· Truegrasses series products

· Renato Lab Taipei future project

Shikai Studio stone products

· S.Café coffee fabric

· Japan Nakadai waste disposal company

· Japan Newsed Project brand

Spain Sea2see sunglasses

· Netherlands The New Raw 3D printing

· Netherlands Fairphone smartphone

· Germany Miele appliances

· UK SARATA furniture company

Slowing Resource Loops

· Provide products and services to the change the past model of selling out products into rights of use thinking.

· Develop shared platforms to share resources and increase resource utilization.

· Netherlands Philips Lighting system

· Netherlands Bosch appliances

· Taipei Youbike shared bicycles Plan B “Park up Guting”

NIKE

Circularity Workbook : Guiding the Future of Design Sporting Goods Manufacturer

Guidelines and standards for helping industries promote sustainable supply chains.

IKEA

Circular Product Design Guide Houseware Retailer

Use design to improve the lifecycles of consumer products, invest in renewable energies at the source, and guide consumers towards a sustainable and environmentally friendly life.

Novo nordisk Circular for Zero Pharmaceutical Developer

Assist in the development of circular design guidelines for circular sustainable products, and implement corresponding optimization methods.

Major of London Designing for a Circular Economy Primer City Government

Four major principles have been proposed for constructing urban environments and buildings, and apply this to policy development.

4. Moreno, M., De los Rios, C., Rowe, Z., & Charnley, F. (2016). A conceptual framework for circular design. Sustainability, 8(9), 937; doi:10.3390/ su8090937.

Design Model

The design guide provides the structure and strategies for the general direction, and the application tools can guide corporations through development and operations. Take the EU-sponsored project ResCoM5 as an example, the project is based on circular resources and resource-saving manufacturing. The aim of the project is to rethink the relationships between materials, product provision, supply chains, business models and technologies, and to help manufacturers adopt the “Closed Loop model”. The 11 tools included can be applied to the different stages of product development. We have divided the purpose of use into three main categories: “Assessment, ideation, and management tools”.

Evaluation

The default purpose of the design tools will also affect the presentation of the tool. For example, the Risk & Race6 educational board game, developed by a Belgian research institution, uses a entrepreneurial perspective to simulate a circular economy business model and increase circular design concepts among participants, allowing them to apply circular concepts in their own fields. The subjects include companies interested in circular design and managers who are trying to implement corporate social responsibility through circular design. In order to promote the applications of circular design and improve the understanding of the issues among companies, the fun and approachable card game was designed. 5.

① There are many types of circular design tools, with varying purposes and user definitions. In order to help companies find an appropriate tool for corporate project applications, circular design operations will become more efficient and systematic. In addition to reducing the threshold of applications, the development of circular design tools is also using its systematic advantages to establish implementation models for circular designs in industries, further promoting the applications of circular design.

② The ultimate goal of circular design is to create value. Several of the design tools shared by TDRI are corporate development oriented. Ideal circular designs must successfully convey its value to the consumers and effectively enter customer perceived value. Therefore, tool development should deepen the discussions of buyer and user aspects. When the stakeholders of circular design can effectively integrate their resources and establish a mindful consumer culture together, circular design will also become good business.

Guidance Tools and Processes

Circular design ladder for companies: Helps companies introduce circular design thinking and establish circular design guidelines.

Assess the current stage of the company and conduct analysis and study of market trends and company needs, in order to understand the issues and opportunities faced by the company. The guidance content is based on design and is applied to the multi-aspect development of innovation in products, services, systems, settings, and business models, in order to encourage the internal implementation of circular management models and examples.

Circular Design

The company has introduced circular design in its business model and established supply chain circular guides, but has not yet achieved its net-zero emissions goal.

The company has introduced circular designs and stipulated circular design guides, but has not yet incorporated it in management strategies.

The company is using easily recycled materials but has not yet linked it to design.

The company has heard of the circular economy and is willing to join, but has not acted yet or does not know how to.

The company does not have circular awareness.

Unsure what circular economy means.

The company has become fully circular. Internationally-known companies that comply with net-zero carbon emissions. H L

Sustainability Cycle Impact

Innovative Design Seminars

In order to help companies think innovatively and accumulate momentum for innovation, TDRI is sharing design knowledge and market information through seminars. The Institute invites domestic and foreign circular design related representative companies and practical experts to share trends and provide companies with forward-thinking design concepts (circular design). TDRI is helping companies understand the latest trends in materials, production processes, business models, and practical management examples related to design and brand. We aim to use circular design strategies to improve corporate sustainable development.

TDRI partners with cross-field institutional or community units from time to time to combine resources and invite members of various industry associations to participate, in order to promote more crossindustry innovation opportunities. For example, TDRI partnered with the Sustainable & Circular Economy Development Association in 2018 to hold the “Circular Design Series Seminars”, which invited different industry and design company associations to facilitate future negotiations.

In 2019, TDRI worked with the Circular Taiwan Network to help design, plan, and organize the “1st Asia Pacific Circular Economy Roundtable”. The planning of the entire event was based on the idea “the roundtable is a part of implementing a circular economy”. It set the goal of zero waste design and complies with “design-reduction-service-recyclingremanufacturing”, in order to implement circular design principles, allowing roundtable participants to have a complete circular experience.

1 Replacing foam boards that are commonly used in events with doubletransparent cloth. 2 Printed designs in the venue are reproduced into souvenirs for participants, greatly reducing the disposable waste of the event. 3 Working with local teams to use discarded metal buckets, wooden boards, and other recycled materials in modular designs for display stands, which are easy to assemble, disassemble, and reuse. The suppliers can store and use the designs after the event.

Design Exchange Visits

In order to help domestic companies understand trends in circular design and implement sustainable management concepts, TDRI plans domestic and foreign design visits and exchanges from time to time. By visiting representative corporations and settings, TDRI aims to promote the cross-industry exchange of technical information and innovative partnerships between industries.

In 2018, we chose countries that have excelled in “circular issues and design innovation”, including the Netherlands, Germany, and Japan, to conduct international design interactions. Through visits to foreign companies and participation in circular forums and international events, we hope to help foreign partners understand the Taiwan’s innovations in design and promote partnership and business opportunities for international design.

International Design Exchanges with The Netherlands and Germany

The population size, land size, and trade in the Netherlands are similar to those of Taiwan. With few natural resources, it relies heavily on imports. In recent years, the Netherlands has been actively developing a “circular economy”. It is viewing the circular economy as an important strategy for transforming domestic industry developments and the driving force behind innovative industries. The government has included the sustainable ideal of “cradle to cradle” in the country's sustainable development and resource utilization strategies, in order to promote industrial sustainability and innovation. It has also formulated related promotion goals and strategies for sustainable buildings, recycling systems, circular design, administrative management, water, etc.

The Netherlands is a small country, so it specially emphasizes its role and position in the entire circular system of Europe. It encourages domestic companies, design service consultants, and neighboring countries to work together and create new economic advantages. It is also actively playing a leading role in the implementation of a circular economy in Europe by organizing circular economy international forums. The government is working with the private sector to promote public housing, public infrastructure, and other projects to establish benchmark examples.

The circular economy and circular design have created massive responses in the entire Dutch society. The study, discussion, and implementation of related projects have been implemented by companies, academic institutions, scientific research institutions and civilian groups. In the Netherlands, these efforts have formed a vibrant circular economy community. Each step has helped the Netherlands reach its sustainable development goals stipulated in its national policies. This is something Taiwan can learn from when implementing circular economy policies. Because Taiwanese corporations are actually

better positioned to implement circular principles than European countries, but do not understand marketing and exporting themselves, the deficiencies require the investment and assistance of government resources.

Another country with similar industries to Taiwan is Germany. More than 50% of small and mediumsized enterprises support Germany's economic development. The model for circular economy development in Germany is not the same as the one in the Netherlands. Most of the efforts are based on corporate management and integrating with international trends. In recent years, local German governments have used many circular designs to transform parks and repurpose idle spaces.

Compared to the small and extensive circular company and design applications of the Netherlands, the German government is less active in helping the design services industry develop and apply circular designs. It is mainly still based on the efforts of private companies, especially multinational companies, which has performed better on this issue. However, both countries have one thing in common, which is the use of idle space and factories. It has attracted large amounts of creative design related resources, in order to revitalize regional development and focus on the interactions with surrounding communities and residents.

Japan is an island nation that lacks natural resources and must depend on imports. The country is also facing the social problems of an aging society with a low birthrate. Under the developments of a sustainable country, the Japanese government introduced “The Law for Establishing the Recyclingbased Society” in 2000, and has conducted reviews and improvements every 5 years since. It has proposed “The Basic Plan for Promoting the Recycling-based Society”, in order to fully establish its sustainability goals. Japan started with the implementation of a recycling-based society, and did not focus on a circular economy like the US and Europe. Because the model for a recycling-based society is resources → products → recycled resources, economic developments have been incorporated in environmental protection, in order to create harmony between man and nature. The social benefits and economic benefits of developing a recyclingbased society have been combined into one.

Establishing a recycling-based society is the most suitable option for Japan. Due to the small land area and large population of Japan, the country mainly relies on imports for industrial raw materials and energy, which does not generally create issues during peacetime. However, when the international situation changes, resources will become scarce. The oil crisis in 1970 impacted the economic development in Japan greatly. The promotion of a recycling-based society can greatly reduce the dependence on imported resources. During its implementation of the recycling-based society, Japan is relatively focused on the development of local industries and helps cultivate and promote the developments with government or public organizations or private institutions. In addition, the Japanese government defined the industry design basis in the early stages. So, when companies are promoting new policy ideas, they understand how to utilize design and communication with the public or key partners to create market differentiation.

Overall, the circular economy value chain in Japan is led by the central government. Comprehensive implementation standards for laws and regulations has enticed companies to participate together. The role of the local governments is to help implement regional goals and provide support for its execution. With a clear vision and supporting measures, Japanese companies have started investing in the market to drive the circular industries. This is something the Taiwanese government can imitate and learn from.

“Circular economy and circular design” are cross-industry and cross-field issues. They require the government to integrate the principles from a policy perspective and to set national sustainable development goals. The government needs to establish related implementation and supporting measures, in order to drive investments and developments in Taiwan’s industry innovations and design services industry.

The establishment of a circular value chain requires the integration of material suppliers, manufacturers, purchasers, consumers, recycling providers, and design and development units to work on innovations together. The government should establish a platform for interactions and exchanges between partners, and provide related information to connect the cross-field supplies and needs, creating new value for waste through cross-field innovation.

Corporate Innovation Workshop

Organized to endow enterprises with self-innovation capabilities and encourage real changes to the internal thinking model of companies. TDRI matches companies with excellent, professional design teams and customizes planning workshop content according to their needs. The companies can review their management, research and development, brand, marketing, and other design related aspects with design as the core concept. Through the co-innovation of crossindustry teams, we are able to improve and elevate the creative energy and product innovation of companies.

The workshop is mainly focused on the three major aspects of “brand and communication”, “products and services”, and “operations and systems”. Starting with “brand and communication”, we will refocus the brand positioning to define product/service more accurately. Next, we discuss “products and services” to find the optimal entry point for products and services from a circular design perspective, while satisfying customer experience. Changes to the two points above are hard to realize without the support of “operations and systems”. Through the communication of co-innovation, companies can better understand the importance of optimizing internal operating systems, in order to further create an environment suitable for circular operations within the companies.

For example, Xcellent Design helped DA.AI Technology with reorganizing the value identification for the DA-AI brand, products, and settings (Humanities and Culture Hall). A clear brand value helps DA-AI's future internal designs and the design direction and market positioning of the marketing and planning team.

Circular Design Principles

Selecting Materials for Use

Adopted single materials

Adopt non-toxic materials

Adopted recycled materials

Adopt bio-materials or naturally decomposable materials

Easy-to-disassemble design

Shipping volume reduction

Packaging material reduction

Full Lifecycle (Products and Services)

Easy-to-repair (modular) design

Reusable design

Adaptive design (scalable/expandable)

Construct a circular system (service and non-one time business model)

Carbon emission minimization or carbon neutrality

Circular Design Applications Guidance Theme Categories

Integration and innovation of circular system designs

The circular design innovation industry system (internal cycle + external cycle)

Shatters traditional thinking and responds to market needs in innovative ways. It focuses on the circular integration of the entire supply chain, improves product material use, and optimizes the entire product lifecycle through the design of business service models.

Full circular design and development for products

The product system and internal material cycle

Emphasize on the safe and cyclical use of materials. Easily recycled and modularized methods are implemented for parts design to facilitate repair and extend the lifecycle of products, while ensuring recyclability.

Innovative service model and design

Breaking through the traditional method of producing one-time use objects, establishing public interest business models through service design.

By rethinking operating and business service models and by using the brand’s market potential, we create circular services with dematerialized commercial value (such as shared platforms/ servicification of products).

Value-added applications of circular material design

Product or packaging development based on circular designs

The application of environment friendly existing or newly developed materials creates product or packaging designs that incorporate circular design ideals and satisfy consumer needs.

Innovative Ward DesignsMAC Ward

Fu Jen Catholic University Hospital was newly established in recent years but the wards still lack 68 beds. In order to meet the establishment targets in a short time, traditional construction methods are not only time-consuming and noisy, and will greatly affect the daily operations of the hospital and the quality of care for patients. In 2021, with the outbreak of the COVID-19 epidemic, there was an insufficient number of isolation wards and positive and negative pressure wards could not be converted. This caused great strain during the outbreak. With the addition of insufficient major disease doctors with clinical experience, new models and digital technologies have to be introduced to reduce the medical burden.

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President Han-Sun Chiang of Fu Jen Catholic University

Assist the research and development partnership between Fu Jen Hospital and Miniwiz to implement innovative development and design of future smart wards. Design thinking and innovative designs are introduced in the usage settings for the medical field. Overall space planning and modularized ward designs are implemented. A crossfield shared platform is constructed to integrate medical furniture, digital technologies, and smart bathrooms. We aimed to create an innovative medical experience and provide the best medical solution for global epidemic prevention.

Fu Jen Hospital, located in New Taipei City, officially began operations in 2017. The innovative development office was created in the beginning to integrate clinical needs, technology, and business models, with sustainable management as the goal. Fu Jen Hospital originally had 6 negative-pressure isolation wards. If the pandemic worsens, it will not be enough. Originally, the hospital wanted to install electric doors in the intensive care unit and convert them into negative-pressure isolation wards, but the installation costs for the doors reached NT$400 thousand. Additionally, waiting for the construction permits will take 6 months, making the option unfeasible. During the initial outbreak of the pandemic, many countries in the world lacked sufficient medical resources and wards to prevent an epidemic.

In order to help hospitals convert their existing wards in real time, we designed a circular and reusable ward that can be adjusted to satisfy different use settings and needs, allowing general wards to be converted into positive or negative pressure wards within 48 hours during the pandemic. The “MAC modularized ward” that allows for the conversion to negative-pressure isolation wards was created during a design brainstorm. The name of the ward came from the original design concepts: Modular, Adaptable, and Convertible (MAC).

In order to establish a negative-pressure isolation ward, it involves more than medical, healthcare, infection control, and negative-pressure piping concerns. There are many professional and legal considerations, including how to ensure zero contact between the medical staff and the patient, isolate an infection area/clean area, plan the movement of medical staff, process the patient’s excrements, extract the air from the ward

and prevent it from entering the hospital’s air conditioning system, etc. These are all important considerations when constructing the ward.

Miniwiz is an expert in innovative material development. It introduces recycled materials in product development and uses recycled aluminum for molds of ward paneling and modules. In order to meet the high requirements of the hospital related to infection control, the entire MAC ward is airtight, antibacterial and flame proof. The design of the ward is like Legos. Each piece can be easily assembled or disassembled, and the related piping for medical devices can be easily adjusted. The design of the corners have been changed from L-shaped to R-shaped curves, making it difficult for dust to accumulate in the corners and the lack of gaps reduces infection risk within the hospital.

The ward uses sealed panels made from recycled plastics, milk bottles, saline bags, and aluminum cans. Recycled plastic bottles are spun into threads and fibers are added to create the antibacterial sound-absorbing panels and curtains. This allows the ward to transform what people used to think as waste into resources under the circular design concepts, giving new life and value to the resources. Furthermore, the MAC ward specifically uses a panel-style packaging, which makes it easy to transport, assemble, and disassemble. It can be conveniently transported to rural areas or overseas, and can be constructed in parking lots, stadiums, or in other spaces.

Guidance Focus

This is the revolution of a century for hospital wards. As the virus mutates, the needs of the ward will change, but however the pandemic evolves, the MAC ward will be the best experimental setting for the medical world. The MAC ward also verifies the value of circular design. It realizes the ideas of using local materials, local production, and recycled materials to reduce petroleum use, energy waste, and environmental pollution. It is extremely competitive in terms of quality and price. Currently, MAC wards have been constructed on the 12th floor of Fu Jen Hospital, and was officially included in the New Taipei City epidemic prevention dedicated wards in June 2021. It has also won the Asia Pacific Social Innovation Partnership Award, Golden Pin Design Award, iF Design Award, Good Design Award, National Innovation Award, and other domestic and international award.

Glass Revival with Circular Design -

Spring Pool Project

With the rise of a circular economy, glass in traditional industries may be the best recyclable material. In recent years, Spring Pool Glass has focused on materials combined with craftsmanship to promote cross-field cooperation between traditional glass works and design. The company hopes to develop new B2B cooperation business models through partnerships with different industries and brands. Spring Pool Glass believes that circular concepts should be deeply rooted in the minds of consumers. The company aims to directly face consumers and actively communicate with the market, in order to implement a circular economy in different settings and pass on the glass craftsmanship, while working with brands in different industries to implement sustainable corporate management.

Case company Spring Pool Glass

Partner PiliWu Design, Seed Spacelab, Dot Design, Joe Fang Studio

Vice President Ting-An Wu of Spring Pool Glass

Guidance Focus

Brand Design

Develop

cross-industry

Settings Applications

cooperation and value-added design

Introduce service design in settings and spaces

Business Model

Innovate new customer experiences and business models

In 1961, after the founder of Spring Pool Glass, Chun-chi Wu, was discharged from the army, he invested in the waste glass recycling industry. After experiences several economic ups and downs, his company survived every challenge. Through the continuous development of glass melting processes, they developed green building materials and established the glass tourism facilities. The Spring Pool Glass of today is focused on professional glass recycling and reprocessing, and is invested in industrial raw materials, technological building materials, arts and culture, and tourism factories.

In the past, Spring Pool Glass products could not solve the challenges of mass production, resulting in the inability to reduce costs. As an OEM company for corporate customers, Spring Pool Glass could not build brand recognition among customers in the market. Therefore, the focus of the counseling was placed on a partnership with a well-known tea brand, which not only stabilized demand and orders, but also increased product popularity and created new forms of orders.

Starting in 2020, in order to increase the public’s understanding of glass craftsmanship and enhance B2C brand management visibility, the physical space, “The Pool”, was built in Hsinchu Park to display circular design.

The expansion of setting management and business models was a new challenge for Spring

Pool. The TDRI provides counseling from two directions. The first is the design team uses circular design to combine space and product for design development, including modular furniture design with glass bricks. Spring Pool Glass worked with different lifestyle brands (JIng Sheng Yu, NINAO, and Dot Design) to develop exclusive circular glass products (take out cups, containers, cones) together. Corporate identity and design cover and create systematic visual applications (The Pool system, spatial coverage) and the glass exhibition planning in The Pool museum. It creates an unforgettable service experience, from visual enjoyment and atmosphere to product use.

The second is the partnership between Spring Pool and iNSIGHT. By exploring the commercial area around The Pool, describing customer profiles, developing biographies, and defining target demographics, we are able to evaluate whether the ideals are effectively conveyed. Meanwhile, we established a glass coin management mechanism and introduced retail chain store concepts, allowing The Pool to adopt a franchise headquarters model for the circular economy in the future. The future circular ecosystem (alliance) will use glass coins as the medium to connect the services of different brands. It will allow feedback incentives to be effectively circulated and applied in the ecosystem, increasing topicality while energizing circular actions and promoting circular economic developments.

Innovative designs are incorporated into the corporate strategies, successfully driving Spring Pool Glass’ industry transformations. The Pool has also become a core setting for driving transformations in the glass industry of Hsinchu, injecting new energy into glass industry innovations and sustainable developments.

Guidance

Focus

Incorporate circular sustainability concepts in the core of Cha Tzu Tang’s brand management, and conduct the planning of new bottle designs. With design as the basis, the company is creating fully circular packaging for manufacturing to the consumer side. It is working with PiliWu Design, Miniwiz, REnato lab, and other organizations on research and development, helping Spring Pool Glass, Hwa-Hsia Glass, and other manufacturers to establish circular partnership models.

Cha Tzu Tang was established in 2004 and is dedicated to developing the Taiwanese camellia seed oil culture. Currently, the company owns 3 camellia tree farms in Taiwan that use environmentally friendly methods to cultivate the land and plant new trees. A new series of products is being developed based on the camellia seed, in order to create new value of the camellia seed oil culture. By connecting the three main missions of “passing on camellia seed oil culture”, “promoting craftsmanship”, and “implementing sustainable development”, the company’s brand purpose is to convey the beauty of the land and realizing good things.

In order to effectively implement a circular economy, Cha Tzu Tang began its sustainability journey in the 17th year of its establishment, fully upgrading all bottles for different products. The company upholds the design thinking of “formed by nature and refined by humans”. It uses delicate designs and craftsmanship to pay tribute to nature.

Camellia seed oil

The designs of the new bottles focus on elevating the content and refining the details. The sustainable, recycled glass of Spring Pool Glass is incorporated into the new bottle designs. The bottles are manufactured using Hwa-Hsia Glass’

century of experience and are designed by PiliWu Design. The rounded bottles are based on the organic lines found in nature and are made to fit in the palm of the hand, providing convenience for daily use. The dark brown bottle creates a delicate beauty through the contrast of glossy and matte surfaces and the thin and thick glass. It organically reflects different lights and shadows.

Toiletries

Plastic content has been reduced by 44% compared to the previous generation of products and recycled rPET plastics have been introduced, achieving 100% recyclability. The bottles with no repeated curves and reflected light corresponds to different plant extraction scenarios. Printing processes have been increased to reduce the use of plastic labels. Each detail is in line with nature and offers a better option for the land.

Cha Tzu Tang hopes to connect the upstream, midstream, and downstream of the industry with “value” through bottle design, rising above the traditional thinking of a manufacturing supply chain and exceeding production limits. Apart from production volume, visibility and practicality is added to the ideals, aesthetics, and creativity, realizing the sustainability principles of being good to the land.

The launch of the camellia seed oil in early 2021 and the launch of toiletries at the end of the year completed the upgrades to all product bottles. The three brand missions of “passing on camellia seed oil culture”, “promoting craftsmanship”, and “implementing sustainable development” is connected through bottle design, representing the land and culture of Taiwan behind the camellia seed oil industry.

O’right ±R Project: New Options for Zero-carbon sustainability

Design thinking should be elevated to the ecological level. Respect for all things should be increased and the burden on the body and environment should be reduced.

Let us use circular design to make the world a better place.

Founder and Chairman Steven Ko of O’right

O’right was dedicated to developing professional salon channels. In 2016, it began entering the counter retail space, creating exceptional management performance. However, the retail consumer market still requires further expansion in order to improve overall brand performance and popularity. O’right, with its brand services established in the international market, is actively planning the brand experience flagship store (Yongkang Store) based on circular designs, in order to fully display O’right’s circular model (green factory, product, supply chain, CSR, etc.) in the store.

• Adopted recycled materials

Case company

O'right International Corporation

Circular Design Principles

• Adopt bio-materials or naturally decomposable materials

• Service design / Business model

• Construct a circular system

Guidance

With the assistance of TDRI from a design strategy perspective, O’right established its flagship store based on circular design concepts and formulated its own brand style. It fully represented O’right’s incorporation of circular economy concepts in products, production, raw materials, and factory construction. Experiences for the five senses were integrated in the flagship store through spatial design and the use of environmentally friendly materials, allowing the consumer to better understand the O’right brand with the green flagship store, thereby driving consumption and enhancing brand image.

O’right was established in 2002 and formulated its green mission in 2006. From the implementation of green concepts in products and services to the care for the environment and social welfare, O’right upholds its core values of “green, sustainability, and innovation”. It became the first cosmetics company in the world to be certified as a zero-carbon company in 2020, and continues to provide sustainable zero-carbon solutions for life.

For many years, O’right has complied with the 6 major zerocarbon directions of sustainable commitment, green services, carbon management, green production, green products, and green impact, implementing green ideals in its actions. O’right provides environmentally friendly green products, established a green headquarters that utilizes renewable energies, implements green logistics that reduces carbon footprint, and effectively conducts carbon reducing green actions. It will continue to accumulate green influence for the world and move towards the goal of zero carbon. The green cycle will enrich every corner of the Earth. Let us protect the beauty of the world together and embrace a zero-carbon future.

O’right has never been just a hair products and cosmetics company. It is a brand that serves mankind, society, and the Earth. It continues to provide innovative services and creates environmentally friendly consumption models, providing a better and sustainable lifestyle.

After establishing the first flagship store in Yongkang Street in Taipei based on circular designs in 2017, O’right has replicated the store and expanded its presence gradually. In response to climate change and the post-epidemic era, O’right will continue to uphold circular sustainability concepts and is dedicated to providing zeroenvironmental impact and zero-carbon products. It has remodeled the Yongkang flagship ship store in Taipei and introduced the ±R Project.

A GMP certified food-grade filling machine, “±R machine”, was introduced in the Yongkang flagship ship in Taiwan. It can fill “R-Bottles” made from 100% post-consumer recycled (PCR) plastic materials. The machine is capable of sterilizing the bottles with 100℃ steam and fill the bottles with shampoo through a pneumatically sealed, automated nitrogen process. The filling process is dust free, non-polluting, and completely automatic, satisfying the legal and safety concerns of the public related to no-packaging retail stores.

By using the novel “refill” technology, the ±R Project is able to implement “reuse” for the bottles, thereby “reducing” the generation of new plastic waste. The “+” and “-” represent the harmony between zero-waste and nature, defining a new green consumption model. Through the 3 R’s, O’right “responds” to the silent cries of nature to regain the balance between nature and man. It “respects” the existence of all things and provides opportunities to “revive” ecosystems and all living things.

The company’s sustainable ingenuity is not only reflected in all its products. It is also fully integrated into the entire store. The sign for the

store uses RePET environmentally friendly material, which is made from 2,058 recycled plastic bottles. The material is able to provide the performance advantages of plastics and wood and is also 100% recycled. O’right hopes to provide an immersive “zero carbon consumption and living” experience to the customers of the Yongkang flagship store. The experience aims to instill respect for all things in the customers’ lives, increase the respect for nature, and reduce the burden on the body and the environment.

O’right has implemented its circular and sustainable ideals and innovative designs in its products, services, and experiences, and throughout its company operations in all retail channels for the consumers. The company has won the Golden Pin Design Award, the Good Design Gold Award in Japan, the Red Dot award in Germany, the Global Sustainability Cosmetics Award in Paris, France, and multiple CSR awards. It has formed its brand value through excellent design strategies and created a benchmark for domestic and foreign circular sustainability.

It is difficult to convert the promotion of sustainability and sales of sustainable products into substantial data Hard to reach a consensus among internal corporate personnel It is difficult to spread sustainability concepts from the management level to the general employees. Existing supply chains cannot support the

First, Carrefour introduced sustainable concepts, then actively influenced its midstream and upstream suppliers, and even indirectly impact other related industries. The project was planned accordingly to convey its ideals, classify services, position products, formulate in-store routes, and generate the atmosphere of the store. Although the case is based on retail channels, the development process can still be applied for companies looking to fulfill their sustainability goals.

01 Conveying value through ideals

When the impact concept store was given the tasks of product sales, ideal tours, and event planning, it was not only the decision-making level that determined the future service direction. The service staff and consumers were also asked to provide their thoughts. The case had multiple internal stakeholders of Carrefour participate in internal workshops. The requirements of key missions were identified and the personnel related to decision-making, planning, and onsite service were found. Together, they decided the primary ideals of the Carrefour impact concept store.

02 Creating the atmosphere

When consumers are shopping, they should be able to easily understand the product ideals and Carrefour’s sustainable goals and developments. When designing the space, SDG 11 “Sustainable Cities and Communities” and the “WHO Global Agingfriendly Cities: A Guide” were referenced as the basis for the friendly space design. Circular design principles were also implemented as the design strategy for the space.

03 Product selection

SDG 2 Zero Hunger and SDG 12 Sustainable Consumption and Production were referenced to stipulate the five major product selection principles, which include support social enterprises, local procurement, purchase sustainability, natural products, and minimal packaging, in order to comply with product selection for sustainable consumption. The principles provide a basis for customers shopping, staff introductions, product selection, and for the suppliers.

Currently, the Carrefour impact concept stores include the Chongqing Store, Neili Store, Qingpu Store, National Palace Museum Southern Branch Store, and Nangang Store. In the future, more impact concept stores will be established in Taiwan.

We hope to achieve balanced development between society, the economy, and environment according to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) announced by the United Nations in 2015.

Carrefour has responded to the development of SDGs by the UN. Starting in 1999, Carrefour’s slogan was “every day is cheap in Carrefour”. After the food safety crisis, the slogan was changed to “everyone deserves better” in 2008. A series of transformations were implemented after the new core value was adopted. In response to the UN SDGs, Carrefour impact concept stores abandoned the traditional channel management and service models. It entered the Taipei NPO village in July 2019 and established the first Carrefour Impact concept store. The company aims to implement sustainable developments in daily life and create a better future for the next generation.

The impact concept stores are important management indicators for Carrefour. As a leader in the food industry, the company has introduced sustainable developments and established an example for innovative service models. It hopes to use the spread of physical stores to act as a training site for potential employees around Taiwan. Carrefour will convey its sustainable ideas to all its seed employees and develop sustainable products with its suppliers, helping create a better future for society. It is a socially responsible sales channel with a mission.

① Selecting key alliance partners

Food related supply chain companies were invited through the innovative business strategies for farmers workshop to understand the new trends and development requirements of the industry, as well as potential partnerships.

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Setting stage goals for the alliance

Carrefour is one of the few companies in Taiwan with sustainable development goals. It must consider new problems when developing new service models. TDRI has helped Carrefour set goals for different stages of development.

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Identify the restrictions of alliance development issues

In order to lower the barrier to entry for companies introducing new developments, in addition to conducting extensive interviews with internal personnel of the company, the 3+2 Design Studio team and iNSIGHT were invited to visit the impact concept store and talk with the frontline sales staff and internal team. They offered suggestions based on design thinking and design aesthetics

④ Introduce issues through design

Working with iNSIGHT, design thinking was used to help the company convey its sustainable ideals and values internally and externally. Working with 3+2 Design Studio, compliance with sustainable development and elderly friendly principles was ensured and circular design concepts were introduced. The product selection principles were set by TDRI to make product categorization more logical and representative of sustainable consumption.

The internal corporate impact Its partnership has expanded and impacted 224 stores (including Welcome, which was acquired in 2021, and Jasons) and 11,000 internal employees.

External impact of channel

Help Carrefour establish a service model with sustainable development at its core, and adopt Carrefour Impact concept stores as important internal indicators for the company.

In the future, established impact concept stores will become employee training sites for introducing sustainable developments, which will train the important managers in various stores.

Carrefour will solve issues such as reducing plastics in packaging and production waste through its channel impact and partnerships with suppliers who wish to invest in sustainable developments.

Since the opening of Carrefour Impact concept stores in January 2021, the concepts have been expanded to 5 stores in 6 months, including the Chongqing Store, Neihu Store, Nangang Store, National Palace Museum Southern Branch Store, and Qingpu Store, saving around one third of the time needed for new store opening and reaching a service satisfaction rate of 90%.

“Circle Journey” Hotel Redesign

Folio Hotel was the dormitory of the Cooperative Bank. Through the redesign and remodeling by the group, its service life was extended. The “Circle Journey” project uses the space of a hotel and designer brands to create a circular experience. On this platform, consumers can experience circular designs and get to know the recycled goods of Taiwan, creating beauty in the detailed designs.

With the tourism industry being impacted by the pandemic, being able to redeploy in the post-pandemic market is currently the biggest challenge facing domestic hotel companies. Especially with the dwindling numbers of foreign travelers, being able to use design to create innovative solutions has become an important approach. In the past, when hotel companies introduce green or sustainable circular solutions, they often find that it is difficult to conduct quantitative assessments, qualitative benefit assessments, or that there is a lack of methods, leading to difficulties in creating an understanding among management, the formation of stereotypes related to sustainability and circular concepts among consumers, and a lack of results of equal value to investments.

Partner

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Case company Folio Hotel

Rising Co., Ltd. 2 by Wu&Chen

Manager Gang-Ling Chang of Folio Hotel

The breakdown of a hotel's product and service system by the hotel industry provides companies and other related suppliers with more brand value and circular economy models. It creates immersive display modules, encourages other tourism industries and lifestyle industries to follow suit, and expands the impact of applications.

Folio Hotel is an example of the circular reuse of old buildings. The company remodeled the Cooperative Bank dormitory, while maintaining the original facade and retaining the style of old buildings in Taipei, which conforms with the design of surrounding buildings. The hotel often partnered with different art events and performances, infusing the energy and diversity of art into the space.

During the year when the pandemic ravaged global tourism, it was the perfect opportunity for Taiwan to incorporate the circular economy concepts in the industry’s DNA through design thinking and strategies. In the “Circle Journey” project, the challenge was to incorporate circular design into everyday life. The well-known Folio Hotel in Taipei was chosen as the site for demonstration, with 2 circular experience rooms being built. Designs based on the five senses were adopted for the space remodel, service design, and circular product selection.

The two guestrooms were based on the themes of “green energy” and “energy conservation”. One room was named the “Livingreen Room”, which was based on green energy and was decorated with discarded flowers and native Taiwanese plants from florists, demonstrating the cyclical and perpetual nature of life. The other room, “Hiddenspace Room”, was based on energy conservation. The lighting design extends the natural colors of the room, highlighting the serene but lively energy of the lands. The themed rooms used products from 13 circular design brands in Taiwan, helping visitors understand circular design by leading them on the “Circle Journey”. By supporting circular product brands and integrating the designs of hotel space and service experience, circular designs are introduced in real settings for testing and cross-field cooperation. The results of the demonstrations are continuously promoted and copied to maintain the developments of the hotel industry.

When the COVID-19 pandemic began in 2020, the idle space and resources in hotels were used to test the marketability of circular hotel models. Through the themed short but intensive circular life experience, the room prices were increased by more than 3.5 times during the pandemic, and were shared by lifestyle media and internet personalities. In the past, the true value of circular sustainability has been often underestimated. The development of complete process designs and the linking of cross-field, cross-brand companies will become important approaches for expanding circular impacts in the future.

Establish

We transformed pollution into sustainable solutions for a zero-waste future. Environmental protection should not only be moral blackmailing. We are transforming people’s ideas of garbage through technology.

CEO and Founder Arthur Huang of Miniwiz

Taiwan has a good recycling system but there is an informational discrepancy between supply and demand. We lack a material flow database, which results in waste becoming garbage. This means large amounts of landfilling and incineration are required instead of industrial waste recycling, generating social and environmental costs. Recycling companies do not know how to respond to industrial needs and how to transform recyclable waste into value-added materials.

companies do not know how to help designers by conveying the characteristics of recycled materials to designers. Designers do not know where to get recycled materials. Designers lack the knowledge related to recycled materials and information on processing units.

Through this project, 20 types of food packaging found in daily life in Taiwan are recycled to act as a demonstration for circular materials and designs.

The world’s first circular design materials and processing database was established, creating an open platform for “materials, designs, and production”.

By combining social design and design education, Miniwiz’s 17 years of material development experience is shared through the platform. The characteristics and processing data of recycled materials are tested and categorized, providing practical applications for designers during subsequent developments.

Provide usage settings for the design of circular materials.

The system has established a circular supply chain for waste in Taiwan, helping Taiwan become an example of a circular economy for the world.

Miniwiz was established in 2005 and is a pioneer in developing sustainable technology solutions. The company has long been dedicated to solving the problems caused by climate change and environmental pollution. It has become a leader in the industry through its many years of experience and several cases of success. ESG sustainable solutions are broadly applied to land acquisitions, concept development, project execution, marketing, and property management to form the real estate value chain, in order to fulfill the scaling goals. The core technologies of circular sustainability can upgrade and reprocess single-use plastics, metals, glass, and other waste, transforming them into modular construction materials, devices, furniture, and medical-grade materials. The Miniwiz development team has extensive implementation experience related to sustainable projects. The total surface area of applied recycled materials has reached 30,000 square meters and total carbon reduction has reached 24,000 tons. The team can effectively help strategic partners achieve their ESG goals.

The world produces around 2 billion tons of garbage each year, and this number continues to rise! The garbage problem has never been faced head on and no correct solutions have been proposed.

https://materialdb.miniwiz.com/

In response to this, Miniwiz has established a research and development lab for upgrading and reprocessing garbage called TRASHLAB. The team believes that numerous possibilities can be created with the discarded waste through recycling technologies, extending the life cycles of the materials.

With nearly 20 years of R&D experience and recycling technologies, Miniwiz has developed over 1200 sustainable materials. The results of these innovations have been compiled to create the unique Material Database, which is available to the world. Miniwiz hopes to use this platform to convey the characteristics of sustainable materials and expand the diverse applications of recycled materials. Recently, the company has been focused on implementing architecture and healthcare cross-industry projects to improve the usage rate of recycled materials. In addition to sustainable materials, the database also clearly demonstrates how Miniwiz can use recycled waste to replace single-use raw materials. The recycled materials are transformed in sustainable construction material modules and applied to buildings, interiors, and commercial spaces. Furthermore, Miniwiz has also developed a smart recyling recognition system, helping consumers become the most direct recyclers. Through this system, data related to the garbage discarded by people are collected and combined with the system, miniTRASHPRESSO, developed by Miniwiz, achieving the local, non-toxic, and low carbon reprocessing goals for single materials.

Tea Aroma Face Masks

Taiwan Comfort Champ creates excellent products with the spirit of craftsmanship. We hope to establish ourselves in Taiwan and demonstrate Taiwanese quality to the world, while protecting people's health.

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the world order and endangered people’s health. Taiwan Comfort Champ joined the national mask team in accordance with the national policies and tackled every challenge. It accounted for 25% of Taiwan’s production capacity. The company hopes to realize circular sustainability ideals while leading the industry. Through the design team started and recruited by TDRI, leftover tea leaves have been added to face masks, creating medicalgrade masks that give off a tea aroma. This has made wearing a face mask a fashionable and blissful action.

Case company Taiwan Comfort Champ Manufacturing Co., Ltd.

Partner Wonderful Design Studio

Circular Design Principles

• Adopted recycled materials

Chairman Yong-Zhi Chen of Taiwan Comfort Champ

The product design is based on circular sustainability concepts. The leftover tea leaves or tea powder is added to the face masks, creating a mask with tea aroma.

The tea leaves are specialty teas at different levels of maturation from the different tea regions of Taiwan. We have combined teas with face masks to show the innovative thinking of Taiwan.

Taiwan Comfort Champ, which has been described as the captain of the national face mask team, has developed technical capabilities and observed the consumer market for many years. It is dedicated to solving the problems of face mask wearers and protecting more people in different countries with excellent face masks made in Taiwan. Taiwan Comfort Champ’s core value is “one face mask represents a multitude of responsibilities”.

In order to realize circular sustainability concepts, leftover tea leaves or tea powder is added to the face masks, creating a mask with tea aroma. The tea leaves are specialty teas at different levels of maturation from the different tea regions of Taiwan, forming the series of tea aroma face masks. The appearance of the masks adopted the fashionable elements of “tea camouflage”, making it stylish with any outfit. Each breath taken while wearing the mask is accompanied by a rich tea aroma, making the wearer feel as if they are in the mountains. The product was designed to introduce aromas into face masks, allowing the user to not only protect their health, but also sooth their minds with the comforting aroma of tea.

The product is expected to be launched in the fourth quarter of 2021. The projected domestic sales channels include CVS, chain cosmetics/drug stores, hypermarkets, chain bookstores, duty-free stores in airports, souvenir stores, and e-commerce channels. The international promotion strategy will target countries with existing tea drinking cultures, such as Singapore, India, and the UK. The company hopes to use this distribution method with local advertizing to add more innovative value to eastern and western tea culture.

Guidance

Focus

GIXIA has long been assisting traditional industries, R&D units of public corporations, technology industries, service industries, and chain systems manage their brand. The company has extensive cross-industry innovative design and brand consulting experience and is an expert in using the different senses to create new marketing approaches for commercialization and productization strategies. It is able to achieve high-level establishment of technical brands, broad expansions, and the cultivation of consumer brands. Through its partnership with GIXIA, Legowall Construction was able to display its brand value, in addition to its product strengths.

The Legowall management team combines its professional technologies related to construction, structures, civil engineering, materials, and automated machinery. Through 10 years of research and development, the company has solved countless problems and broke through different bottlenecks, successfully solving various issues and deficiencies related to existing building materials.

Legowall is more environmentally friendly than traditional building materials. It uses the innovative materials and special structural design to solve the moisture resistance, flame resistance, and earthquake resistance problems of brick walls. It has better water absorption and drainage than concrete and does not easily form wall cancer, while enhancing earthquake resistance, fire resistance, and sound proofing. The modular designs produce thinner thicknesses than traditional brick walls, improving the usability of the space. The different construction method introduces automated machinery into the production and construction processes of traditional industries, allowing construction to be completed faster, thereby reducing the work period and achieving energy conservation and carbon reduction.

With the main development strategy, the company is able to comply with circular design requirement and become an environmentally friendly, sustainable building material company. Through domestic and foreign distribution channels and a sales network consisting of agents, the company is able to strengthen the core developments of technical materials and design innovations, thereby establishing an industry ecosystem. At the same time, its corporate image was enhanced through the improved proprietary brand image, resulting in more orders and assisting the promotion of circular designs and environmentally friendly, sustainable building materials.

According to UN estimates, two thirds of the world’s population will be living in cities by 2050. Buildings and construction account for 36% of global energy use and 39% of the world’s carbon footprint. Therefore, the circular economy policies of European countries have listed the construction industry as a prioritized industry for transformation.

The construction industry has long been unable to innovate significantly in the past. Because a circular economy is based on technology-intensive oriented innovation, the construction industry has yet to fully understand the transformations. Therefore, the construction industry in Taiwan has yet to initiative systematic innovations related to a circular economy.

Many of Taiwan’s construction professionals must go abroad to learn from the experience of foreign industries and apply their knowledge. Additionally, the Taiwan construction industry often has to import advanced technologies from abroad, increasing the cost of expanding into foreign markets, which is not conducive to long-term, healthy developments.

Although the introduction of 3D printing in the construction industry cannot completely replace traditional building methods, the biggest advantage of the new technology is that more complex structures can be designed and adopted. It enables companies to reduce material waste, reduce labor costs, and operate with lower costs and higher efficiency. 3D printed buildings can respond to the needs and challenges of social housing, youth housing, and mixed generation housing in the society of the future.

Case company Everplast Machinery Co., Ltd.

Partner C-Hub of NCKU

Professor Shuen-Ren Liu’s laboratory of the Department of Architecture Techome Technology Co., Ltd.

Circular Design Principles

• Adopted recycled materials

• Easy-to-disassemble design

Pioneer project for circular buildings: 3D printers X innovations in circular material designs

The small-scale 3D printers continue to be optimized and large printers being developed abroad are referenced, in order to establish a comprehensive knowledge system of materials, designs, and printers, to compete in the international market.

Chairman Guo-Xin Chen of Everplast Machinery

The purpose of the project is to design the world’s first 3D printer for printing recycled slurry (cement-like materials). It is a first stage industry-academia cooperation project for the application of important technologies related to circular construction technological innovations. The 3D printer developed by the project uses the material developed by Professor Shuen-Ren Liu’s laboratory in C-Hub called C-Slurry. The material is made from industrial, agricultural, and construction wastes and is designed to replace cement. There are 7 main focuses of the project:

Development of 3D printers for circular architecture.

Development and introduction of circular materials (zero cement).

Dynamic adjustment and testing of machine designs and material ratios.

Design of the curve, structure, resistance, and color of the prototype.

Develop printed products that can display the application combinations based on circular architecture.

Implementation for real-world application scenarios and overall business model exploration.

High level industry-academia cooperation which combines the development capabilities of companies, the designer network of creative platforms, and architectural education settings.

Everplast Machinery sells professional machinery and mold production equipment related to “piping, nonconventional materials, granulation, and plastic wood”. Everplast is dedicated to integrating marketing, research and development, manufacturing, and overall plant output to offer fully customized services for global customers. Everplast creates the best benefits for customer extrusion process production lines and more competitive products through adapting to the diverse characteristics of plastics and providing machinery and production technologies. Everplast Machinery is focused on technology development, production volume, and quality improvement to develop the first cement/cement-like material

3D printer in Taiwan. The company is creating its self-designed machinery and threaded rods and conducts unit testing and printing with the design team.

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3D printing equipment and extrusion rod design

The machine uses industrial servo motors with highly accurate positioning. The extrusion of the material is accurately controlled by the thread pitch of the metering section, preventing material spillage or waste. Furthermore, each test piece (30cm (L) x 28cm (W) x 25cm (H)) takes around 15 to 30 minutes to make, which is highly efficient. The design of the threaded rod is divided into the mixing section and the measuring section. The stirring function can prevent solidification of the slurry material left in the material bucket before extrusion. The material bucket design has incorporated a funnel space for feeding materials externally. External mixers and pressurized conveying pump can be installed to directly feed materials into the bucket, which can facilitate the production of larger parts.

② Combination of equipment and slurry material

During the project period, 3 types of color formulas and 4 slurries were tested: Hearthstone, red brick, nPlup, and cement. The “molding parameters” for different slurries have been accurately measured. The characteristics of the slurries, the viscosity (fluidity), and drying and hardening time have been digitized, which can accelerate the process. The distance adjustments of the threaded rods, rotation speeds, single pulse material extrusion volume, and the relative relationships between slurries have been solved during the project. Control of the drying, cooling, and adhesion times of the finished product layers and the subsequent strength and structural performance testing have been calibrated and compiled in the database.

③ Curve testing and single unit printing

In order to understand and strengthen the printing limits of the machine, special design elements, including curves and gradient changes, are processed after the program is paused. The curve testing step can not only allow the design team to understand the practical limits of the overall design, but can also expand possible applications in future usage settings. The degree of twisting of the D-Chair, which has been printed for testing, depends on the degree of freedom and possibility of inner and outer layer printing. In order to increase the functions and ductility of the object, adding additional materials and further processing after the software is paused is an indispensable part of current printing processes.

④ The joining method and structure system

design.

The current D-Chair design is around 15 to 20kg. Considering the stability and safety of the structure, embedded hardware parts secured with screws have been adopted for the joining design. Rebar may also be installed to form different types of D-Chair. Products on the market have adopted embedded metal part configurations to maintain the safety of the whole object, while maintaining the flexibility and ductility of the original design.

Applications for two patents have been submitted for the 3D printer and nozzle design. The patents are called “Slurry 3D Printing Equipment” and “Slurry 3D Printing Nozzle Structure”. During the project execution period, 5 unit designs were printed for testing and 24 units were mass produced. The mass produced units included 3 types of recycled materials, including hearthstones, red brick, and nPlup, where were presented in white, pink, and light yellow, respectively. The materials were displayed in the form of chairs and display cases.

In terms of the actual promotion, the display cases are displayed in the permanent exhibition on the 5th floor of C-Hub of NCKU. During the project period, the company also worked with the clothing brand, “Oqliq”, to display the units during the Tainan StableNice clothing and architecture exhibition from November 21 to 22, 2020. The assembly produced by the project was exhibited in “Mega Maker Day” in The Pier-2 Art Center, Kaohsiung, from December 5 to 6 in the same year.

The research and development team also actively tried different recycled formulas and unit designs. It is currently trying to use a formula made from oyster shells and coral for 3D printing. It is currently developing diverse types of designs and structures.

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Introduction and design of innovative plant fiber materials.

Design applications and market opportunities for plant fiber structures

Breakthroughs in production technology reduce carbon emissions.

Easy to store and convenient to carry.

The improved structure design increases the product lifecycle.

Dot Design was established in June, 2003. Its main services include visual design and product design. The company has been focused on and implementing sustainable packaging and product development over a long period of time. Dot Design provides professional design capabilities combined with renewable material and production experience to help implement environmental sustainability in daily necessities. The company established the new brand, re-ing, in recent years to develop sustainable material related products. The brand aims to minimize the environmental harm caused by the product development process. Dot Design owns four independent brands, DOT Design, ChosenTea1869, Hualien Goods, and re-ing. The brands are sold by several well-known domestic designer brands and have won multiple German Red Dot, German iF, Taiwanese Golden Pin, OTOP, and other domestic and foreign design awards. The comprehensive integration of design and culture has been Dot Design’s long-term ideal and goal. Sustainable design is the core of their mission for the environment and ecology.

The materials for the bamboo fiber beach toys consist of bamboo fibers and natural plant starch. They do not contain plastics or PLA (polylactic acid). This means that even if the toys are accidentally left in the environment, the bamboo fiber beach toys will decompose in the natural environment. Because of the all-natural ingredients, the time it takes for the toys to decompose in a landfill is greatly reduced and no hazardous gases are released when the toys are burned. The natural materials can be reused to take advantage of the circular design. For the bamboo used, bamboo that is less than 3 years old is saved, bamboo that is between 4 to 7 years old is harvested, and bamboo that is over 7 years old is cut down. Bamboo grows very fast and is ready for use after 3 years. Its natural antibacterial properties make pesticides unnecessary during the growth process. It is a stable and safe material among environmentally friendly materials, and is a green material designated by the UN.

The introduction of DOT design x REnato lab products promotes the new environmentally friendly brand, RePlay.

The bamboo fibers used in the products do not contain plastics or PLA, reducing environmental pollution. The simplified packaging fulfills the goal of zero-waste design.

REstoneDevelopment and Design of Artificial Stone Materials

Made from Discarded Electronics

Taiwan possesses a certain level of technological and R&D capabilities, which can provide the necessary foundation for developing a circular economy and practical applications. In the future, we hope that the application scope can be expanded to accelerate the industrial transformations.

Founder and CEO Jia-Xiang Wang of REnato Lab Inc.

In Taiwan, 28,303 tons of PCBs are discarded every year, and recyclable metals only account for 14.86% of the waste. With the current processes, the remaining 86% can only be disposed. If the disposed portion can be transformed into usable resources, it can save waste processing fees and create new economic value. Furthermore, as the third biggest producer of electronics and IT products in the world, it is more important for Taiwan to recycle the waste.

Case company REnato Lab Inc.

Partner Studio Shikai

Super Dragon Technology Co. Ltd.

Circular Design Principles

• Adopted recycled materials

Provide alternatives for natural stone products in the market, in order to create new economic value.

Create an upcycling path for waste in the industry to reduce waste processing costs.

The story aims to become a pioneer case for Taiwan on the road to a circular economy, in order to inspire greater acts in the future.

REnato lab is a research team that bases its actions on the main approaches for a circular economy and creating sustainable impacts. The team believes that to fully realize a circular economy, there are still many parts of the ecosystem that require redesigns and developments. More cross-industry talents are required, in order to effectively help companies and industries to implement full circular resource lifecycles.

The artificial stone materials made from discarded electronics draws inspiration from the patterns on natural stone materials. The stone materials are created with crushed and sorted discarded PCBs without any remaining value and without adding any dyes. The goal of REnato lab is the upcycling of the materials, in order to create value and give a second life to the materials.

REstone II is the result of this development project. It uses discarded PCBs to create the natural texture and patterns of granite. The project successfully presents another option for manufacturing to

consumption. During the process of upcycling for the waste, it reduces waste processing costs and transforms the cost into a usable resource. Each month, the team is able to process up to 17.7 tons of PCBs, converting it into 53 tons of artificial stone materials.

Transforming Discarded Clothing into Innovative Building MaterialsClothing Fiber Wood

Discarded clothing can also be transformed into new building materials through intelligent design, creating new possibilities for the future!

The copious amount of clothing waste created by fast fashion cannot be recycled and becomes environmental pollution. Although there are many pieces of clothing made from recycled plastic bottles on the market, there are no measures or regulations related to the handling and recycling of recycled clothing, which creates a pollution to be solved after the clothes are discarded.

Case company Strong and Wise Material Tech Company

Circular Design Principles

• Adopted recycled materials

• Easy-to-repair (modular) design

President Zheng-Xiong Lin of Strong and Wise Material Tech Company

Guidance Focus

The material application of Strong and Wise Material is primarily based on B2B business partnerships. The TDRI has helped match the company with cross-industry design teams to attempt modular furniture design and expand modular designs (clothing fiber wood furniture), in order to create a diverse range of possibilities for the application of recycled materials.

Smart and Wise Material is focused on providing advanced material technologies and services. It was the first in the world to create a new construction material out recycled clothing and blended fabrics called “clothing fiber wood”. Using its proprietary patent for “PE/PET alloy technology", Smart and Wise Material has created weather-resistant, flameresistant, lightweight, strong, and insect-resistant foam materials that can be used as building paneling, cabinet paneling, corner materials, and outdoor paneling. The clothing fiber wood also solves the issue of recycling materials made from recycled plastic bottles and the weather-resistance issues of existing outdoor plastic wood materials. The company has formed several key partnerships with many international brands.

The clothing fiber wood introduced by Smart and Wise Material is durable and suitable for outdoor constructions and landscaping, but cannot easily convey the problems of clothing recycling to the consumers. Therefore, in 2020, with the guidance of TDRI, Smart and Wise Material partnered with the recycling expert Miniwiz to form the 0 Waste Fabric team, in order to develop clothing fiber wood furniture that people can use in their daily lives. The first products to be released were chairs and side tables. With the modular designs, the furniture is easy to assemble and disassemble, allowing the same set of furniture to be used for different functions, such as coffee tables, monitor stands, desktop shelving, etc.

Each piece of clothing fiber wood furniture produced uses more than 16 pieces of recycled clothing, allowing 40% of each wood panel to be made from recycled clothing materials. Each piece of clothing fiber wood furniture sold can reduce the amount of clothing to be incinerated by 3.2kg. The clothing fiber wood furniture also has the durability of outdoor materials, which can greatly extend the lifespan of furniture, reducing the waste generated

by replacing furniture. Even if the clothing fiber wood furniture is recycled again in the future, no waste will be generated. The Smart and Wise team continues to develop new technologies. By combining the material compatibility concepts of the “clothing fiber wood”, the team ensures the recyclability of fabrics and plastic bottles with high efficiency and creates products such as buttons, glasses, and hangers. Furthermore, the team has developed modular LEGO components that are also 100% recyclable and the patent is currently pending.

During the 2020 Circular Design Exhibition, TDRI adopted display tables made from clothing fiber wood and metal frames. It adopted recycled materials and reusable objects as much as possible to support circular sustainability through practical actions.

Circular Design PromotionExhibition

In Taiwan, environmental issues have already been popularized among the population. From elders in their 80s to pre-school children, actions are being implemented and each person is conducting trash sorting in their daily lives. During the 20 years of environmental awareness promotion, environmental protection slogans and ideals have become a part of everyone’s minds. Taiwan’s positive efforts in trash sorting are among the best in the world and have been recognized by international news media.

Currently, we are entering the next stage of environmental protection actions. It is the perfect time to include advanced circular designs. When basic environmental protection concepts have been instilled in the general public, and the public is actively conducting trash sorting, the next targets are consumers, designers, and manufacturers. We must build a circular system together, combining each individual effort of the past into a complete industrial circular economy.

Through the planning of the circular design exhibition, we highlight the value of circular design. We convey the concepts of the current circular ecosystem and the roles of individuals to the audience through clear visual designs, route planning, and content text and vocabulary within the exhibition area.

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Are You in the Loop ? Circular Design Exhibition

Establish the Concept of Waste Becoming Resources at the Source

Environmental sustainability is major global issue. Every aspect of human life is constantly using the Earth’s resources and most people do not understand the process of recycling after disposing of their waste in a recycling bin. The first circular design exhibition was based on the theme of “Are you in the loop?”, with conversations with the industry, designers, and consumers. The audience is able to learn about how the products are given new life and recycled through the perspectives of material understanding, consumer choices, and material use. Future products will no longer be a burden on the environment, and will become an important resource for the next stage of product lifecycles.

Exploded view of daily necessities

Six types of daily necessities are presented in an exploded view and ten different materials are identified within them. The complete recycle to reborn process for the objects is presented from the materials used to the recycled products.

• Sustainable material themed area

Divided into 12 different materials, the area exhibits the innovative applications of recycled materials, including e-waste PCBs (REnator lab), glass (Spring Pool Glass), discarded fabrics (Miniwiz), wafers (Semisils Materials), carbon fiber (Hsin Yung Chien), PET (Ecomax Textile), aluminum (Darfon Electronics), PP (Da Fon Environmental Technology), HDPE (O’right), paper (CULTU-RE EXPERIMENT), coffee grounds (Singtex), and kitchen waste (Bionicraft). Members of the public can understand the technologies and methods used to turn the consumables from their lives into consumer products through recycling, in order to help them identify more environmentally friendly products in the circular system in the future.

• The waste art corridor

The waste art corridor uses 6 major plain materials, such as food packaging (transparent plastics), packaging for household goods (nontransparent plastics), clothing (natural and artificial fibers), pots and beer cans (metals), consumer packaging & newspapers and books (paper), and motherboards and batteries (e-waste). The waste was used to create six mosaics that reflect the diverse types of waste generated in our daily lives.

• Sustainable exhibition materials

The materials used in the sustainable exhibition are different to the ones used for wood constructions in ordinary exhibitions. In compliance with the exhibition’s concepts of circular design, the paneling and shelving used in the exhibition are made from recycled materials or reusable, modular components, in order to minimize the waste generated by the exhibition.

The Next Decade Circular Design Exhibition

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Circular Design Will Drive New Lifestyles.

The regeneration of natural resources can no longer keep up with the rate of human consumption. Every year, the day that humans use up the renewable resources on Earth allotted for that year is called “Earth Overshoot Day”. In 2019, the “Earth Overshoot Day” was July 29. This means that during that year, the natural resources consumed after that date were borrowed from the future.

“Balance will be reached - Either through disaster or design.” The second circular design exhibition was based on Disaster or Design? It looks at the price of comfort in our lives through the perspective of our daily lives and with straightforward diagrams. It presents 40 different circular design cases implemented by 32 domestic and foreign companies, and how they found the opportunities to transform circular design strategies into practical actions. The companies aim to use design to face adversity and create tiny changes that accumulate into world-changing impacts.

Entrance image area

Helps the public understand the ecological overshoot issues through climate change, environmental disasters, and other current problems.

6 major themed areas

Through the 6 major themes related to daily life,“food”, “fashion”, “housing/objects”,“Electronics/appliances”, “plastics/packaging”, and “cities”, and 40 products and services with circular design features, The exhibition explains how the designs solve current problems and achieves balance between economic development and environmental sustainability.

The future issue area

It is a “knowledge sharing” platform that compiles the global circular design issue related events in 2020 and the information related to circular sustainability goals of various countries and companies in the decade up to 2030, in order to provide a reference for the implementation of circular solutions.

• The window displays

The window displays incorporate the 6 major issues and utilize the 6 major types of waste materials, such as food (oyster shells), textiles (old clothes and fabric craps), household items (furniture & woodworking waste), electronics (keyboards & computer casings), consumer packaging (cardboard boxes), and cities (wheels & car chassis). The displays propose 6 questions for thought to be explored by the general public.

Golden Pin Design Awards

Giving out its Special Awards to commend outstanding entries in the fields of circular design

The Golden Pin Design Awards were established in 1981 and are the oldest and most recognized professional design awards in Taiwan. Starting in 2015, the “Golden Pin Design Award”, “Golden Pin Concept Design Award”, and “Golden Pin New Design Talent Award” were established for different target groups. As of 2021, nearly 80,000 works have been submitted from around the world. The Golden Pin Design Awards are as follows:

The “Golden Pin Design Award" is aimed at commercialized and marketed products. International design teams and companies are allowed to enter their products. Each year, exceptionally designed works are selected to provide certification for the market and industry. The award aims to encourage companies to focus on design and development, as well as improving brand value through design.

The “Golden Pin Concept Design Award” is aimed at products that have not been mass produced, non-client commissioned projects, and unexecuted proposals. Students, designers, and companies around the world are invited to participate. It is an iconic platform for discovering innovative design concepts or solutions.

The “Young Pin Design Award” is the only official award for one of the largest new design talent exhibition in the world, “Young Designers’ Exhibition”. It selects outstanding works from thousands of submissions every year and is an important award for discovering rising young designers in Taiwan.

In response to global design trends, the Golden Pin Design Awards established the “Special Annual Award” in 2018, which is focused on “green design”, “circular design”, and “social design”. It recognizes outstanding works that are socially and industrially meaningful. Young Pin Design Award partnered with the Sustainable & Circular Economy Development Association in 2020 and 2021 to encourage young designers to use circular thinking and creativity when proposing innovative solutions for environmental issues.

From the submissions and award-winning works in recent years, we can see that both companies and designers are incorporating more and more “sustainable”, “environmental”, and “circular” thinking in their works, creating more lifestyle and environmentally friendly designs. This shows that the environmental awareness among the public has formed a new force that is creating an impact through design.

Golden Pin Design Awards

Giving out its Special Awards to commend outstanding entries in the fields of circular design

RHITA is a suitcase designed for assembly and disassembly. We provide an innovative installation to simplify the structure of parts makes it easier to repair, finally extend product life. By divided simple and composite material of parts, more value of waste could be reached.

SAVIOUR

LOOFIBER

Roaring Cosmos

PACKPAL Fish Cycling RHITA

WHO uses plastic bottles only as a kickboard to teach poverty areas children to swim, the design of the SAVIOUR responds to the swim teaching needs of each stage through different combinations, Not only ameliorate teaching equipment, but also using recycled plastic for 3D printing production to reach low cost, and it is consistent with sustainable environmental protection.

Loofiber is a 100% plant-based, dual-purpose kitchen sponge. Sanguang village, a small village located in Douliu, Yunlin, is famous for its loofah plantation. During harvest seasons, several loofahs will be set aside for proceeding fibrosis. Their seeds are needed for sowing for the next season while the remains are used to produce kitchen sponge. The soft side of Loofiber can be used for daily kitchen works and the other side is designed into higher durability for stubborn stains.

The main body is a metal pipe bracket, and the wall uses Plastic Corrugated Roofing Sheet and second-hand pallets. The skeleton is a movable structure. Use the bottom pulley to adjust the size and length of different exhibition areas. Can be folded into a flat shape when storing. Building materials can be reused after being dismantled non-destructively.

PACKPAL is stationery that can be repeatedly sealing the box, made of thin aluminum sheet, can use repeatedly bent and recycled, reducing the use of plastic sealing box tape, and extending the repeated service life of cartons, and improve the convenience of users to take items from cartons many times. PACKPAL has a 90º bendable sign, can be written, bar code, and special electronic paper display, to assist users to do carton content marking and classification, as a need for multiple items storage management. PACKPAL's ecofriendly 3R: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle as the core of the creation of friendly environment stationery.

The relationship between the fish market and Styrofoam is inseparable. We design the fish container to be folded and reused, which is in line with the rapid upstream wholesale, mid- and downstream retail and wholesale, and then the logistics truck returns to the upstream cleaning place. Reach the mode of circular chain.

School

Department of Product Design, Tainan University of Technology

Involved Designer

Chun-Yu Pan / Yun Cheng / Jhen-Jia Yang

Supervisor Chung-Shen Chen

School

Department of Industrial Design, National Taipei University of Technology

Involved Designer

Chih-Shan Huang / Wan-Ju Wu

Supervisor Jui-Wen Peng / Yi-En Chen / Li-Chieh Kao

School

Department of Visual Communication Design, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology

Involved Designer

Huay-Min Lim / Yi-Meng Jiang

Supervisor

Shih-Mou Kuo / Wen-Yuan Hu / Hsien-Yuan Chiu / Shyh-Bao Chiang

School

Department of Multimedia Design, National Formosa University

Involved Designer

Ce Zheng / Jia-Ying Cai / Xiang-He Cai Huai-Yu Cai / Yi-Hua Li

Supervisor Jian-Shun Luo

School

Department of Industrial Design, Ming Chi University of Technology

Involved Designer

Fang-Ping Hsu / Chien-Chen Lai Supervisor Kai-Chu Li

School

Department of Creative Product Design, Tungnan University

Involved Designer

Guang-Ze Hsu / Zih-Siang Lin

Supervisor Chia-Wei Kuo

Module Swim Gear

Design Pin

Provide an excellent sales platform for design products and connecting design with life. Design Pin hopes to use the connections to convey the uniqueness of each product and the concepts the designers wanted to share. We have selected Golden Dot Design Award, iF Design Award, Red Dot Design Award, and other domestic and foreign award winning products for sale. Based on the concept of “adding design to life”, we are incorporating the aesthetics and taste of design into the daily lives of the public. At the same time, we continue to promote excellent design brands and works from Taiwan. Combined with online and offline promotion, we wish to show the world the innovative creativity of Taiwan.

Circular Design Exhibition Themed Display and Sales Area

“Your shopping choices will decide your living environment for the next decade.”

“Choosing environmentally friendly materials can allow resources to be sustainably recycled.”

Design Pin works with the circular design exhibition to plan the themed sales area. Partner brands are invited to display their products in the entrance pop-up area. The content included daily necessities and items designed with material sustainability or that emphasize the reduction of disposable waste. The environmentally friendly dining utensils hope to reflect the idea that every choice in life should be based on circular concepts and a circular economy to provide a better living environment and resources to future generations.

The most attractive and loved product in the exhibition must have been the “W Glass”. The product was developed by HMM and W Spring Pool. Recycled glass is giving to local craftsmen to make it by hand, conveying sustainability through the design. The markings on a clock are used as reference for the 12-sided elegance of the glass. The amber color is created through glass dyeing and the contrast between the drink and light creates an intertwined beauty. The product not only won the Golden Pin Design Awards - Best Design of the Year, it was also selected as gifts given by public departments. It fully demonstrates the fact that design can help realize a circular economy and environmental protection, creating a win-win for all parties.

Yodex Industry-Academia Cooperation Projects for Design

By combining the creativity of companies and students, Yodex Industry-Academia Design Projects create new circular value.

Starting in 2014, the “Yodex Industry-Academia Cooperation” project, organized by TDRI, used the biggest innovation showcase in the world, “Young Designers’ Exhibition”, as the stage to invite representative companies/units from different fields and students from design-related schools to establish connections for industry-academia collaboration. Furthermore, in response to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and to assist industry-academia driven development, TDRI used the “Yodex Industry-Academia Cooperation” platform to promote “Design Social Responsibility”. It aimed to combine the practical and innovative capabilities of industries and design with the power of national design institution. TDRI contribute to social responsibility through design and create more opportunities for design exchanges and cross-field partnerships, enhancing the social impact of design and driving industrial and social innovations through design.

Project Guidance Process

Anticipate trends and guide companies in submitting proposals

We help companies submitting proposals in the year to adopt anticipated international trends and use design thinking workshops to explore possible innovations for the future of the company. Corporate proposals are issued based on this core idea. Industry technologic al resources, design requirements, and the possible effects of the proposals on the company are identified to help companies propose industrially innovative proposals with design value.

“Industry” and “Academic” co-innovation

Proposed works are discussed by companies and students. The companies provide industry and technical know-how, production guidance, mass production knowledge, and related resources, while student provide innovative concepts and design expertise, helping companies evolve and develop their existing industry technologies. It can even help companies find future development directions and new product application settings in the industry.

Introduction of professional consultants

Through the introduction of professional designs and industry related consultants, TDRI can help guide work development and student designs, while providing the professional knowledge required by companies for developing innovations.

Linking of commercialized resources

TDRI helps connect companies with patent application, fundraising and listing, and mass production proofing experts, in order to provide guidance and assistance for the subsequent mass production of products, improving mass production success rates.

Proposing Company

Spring Pool Glass Industrial Co., Ltd.

Spring Pool Glass, a company that recycles and processes 100,000 tons of glass each year, is currently the largest waste glass recycler in Taiwan. It connects glass works, designs, issues, and materials to explore the contradictions and coexistence of “recycling” and “creation”. With glass being the raw material for creating glass objects, the company seeks a meaningful infinite cycle of creation and destruction.

Industry-academia Co-creation

The “FLOAT boba cup”, developed by the Industrial Design Department of Shih Chien University and Spring Pool Glass, is an innovative product that allows the user to drink boba without a straw, creating a better product that can reduce the use of disposable cups and straw, as well as decrease pollution. Starting with the drinking experience, the team thought about how drink containers have to adapt to the changes of modern teadrinking methods. The cup has to be easy to wash and incorporate sustainable cycles and environmental protection into the lifestyle of the user. The inner cup changes the height of the different content in the drink, allowing the person to get the tea and solid contents without a straw. The temperature and the content of the drink are mixed while the person is drinking. This provides a better and more environmentally friendly boba tea experience for the user.

Yodex industry-academia cooperation project brought Spring Pool Glass and the student team together. During the process, the company not only provided a lot of knowledge about the glass industry, but also provided much assistance in the mass production, packaging, shipping, sales, and exposure of the product, reinforcing the students’ inexperience in commercialization. The students provided the innovative design concept that revolutionized existing boba cup and environmentally friendly cup designs. The filter mechanism eliminates the use of disposable straws and makes the cup easy to clean, creating new possibilities for drink containers.

The product continues to be commercialized through the partnership with Spring Pool Glass, and was launched on the Zec Zec Platform in August 2019. It has successfully started the trend of replacing straws in environmentally friendly cups through ingenious designs. After its launch, it received widespread recognition. In less than 24 hours of the launch, 2.5 million orders were placed and the project raised NT$7.46 million within 3 months. It is a successful case of commercialization through industry-academia cooperation. Apart from continuing to work Spring Pool Glass, the students have also started their own company to promote and sell the FLOAT boba cup. The product has been released on online and in offline channels, and long-term sales are available on the Pinkoi Platform, uDesign, and Eslite Life. It has been covered by EBC News, CTS, NHK, and other domestic and foreign media, and has won the A’ Design Award in 20192020.

Case 1

FLOAT Boba Cup

Spring Pool Glass X Industrial Design Department of Shih Chien University Tian-Yu Wu and Fang Shih

In 90% of recyclable artistic light fixtures, the bubbles echo the sustainability of recycled glass and creative students have joined corporate development projects.

25 NANO

Spring Pool Glass X Tainan University of Technology

Proposing Company

Spring Pool Glass Industrial Co., Ltd. Spring Pool Glass, a company that recycles and processes 100,000 tons of glass each year, is currently the largest waste glass recycler in Taiwan. It connects glass works, designs, issues, and materials to explore the contradictions and coexistence of “recycling” and “creation”. With glass being the raw material for creating glass objects, the company seeks a meaningful infinite cycle of creation and destruction.

Industry-academia Co-creation

25 Nano is an artistic mood light. It represents the fleeting and eternal, the process of growth and disappearance. During the partnership between 25 Nano and Spring Pool Glass, the aim of the latter is to establish a glass recycling system, in order to realize a sustainable future. Therefore, 25 Nano chose the relatively fragile bubble as its medium to create a strong contrast against the solid glass. In the lighting fixture, the light shines through the entire lifecycle of the bubbles, projecting rainbow colors and shadows into the environment, thereby creating a dreamlike atmosphere. 25 Nano is the threshold for the thickness of bubbles before they burst. Using the formation and disappearance process of bubbles and the refraction of light, a rhythmic changing of light and shadows was created. As the thickness of the bubbles change, the color of the light continuously shifts, creating an unpredictable, dreamlike atmosphere.

From the changes to the light and shadows to the design of the mechanism, the students have provided a full series of innovative concepts. With the recycling and circular economy business model guidance provided by Spring Pool Glass and the direction of Dot Design Creative Director Shi-Guo Han, 90% of the mechanism is now recyclable, creating a lighting fixture with great commercial potential. The product has won the 2020 A’ Design Award silver award.

Ching-Hva Chen, Cheng-Yan Lu, Zhi-Jie Cai, Yu- Rong Chen

Creation Lab

Carrefour X Taipei Medical University X Shih Chien University Yi-Chen Shen

Proposing Company

Carrefour X Taipei Medical University

Starting in 2018, Carrefour introduced the food transformation project with the aim of providing better food to all. Carrefour carefully checks the food from source to your table, and helps consumers understand the truth behind the food. The food has few additives and is more healthy. The company has also responded to SDG 12 Responsible Consumption and Production to encourage the public to use their consumption power to change the production of upstream suppliers. It has also advocated for environmental sustainability issues with the industry, government, and academia. Furthermore, Taipei Medical University has also starting thinking about the issue of “food”. Not only does it want students to provide solutions for different groups and needs through cross-school and cross-field cooperation, the university also hopes to encourage more industry partners to contribute to food transformations.

Industry-academia Co-creation

How can we use ugly fruits and vegetables?

Creation Lab has proposed a new solution! Creation Lab is not only a work platform, but is also a display stand in Carrefour stores. Starting with the idea of crayons made from fruits and vegetables, children can experience the process of creating crayons with ugly vegetable and fruits, from the drying time to how the maturity of the vegetables and fruits affect the color, and think about the food resume, thereby fulfilling the sustainable goal of becoming a “Carrefour impact concept store”.

How can design be used to help Carrefour and Taipei Medical University fulfill SDG 12 “Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns”? This requires the design and innovation capabilities of the students and the know-how and experience related to sustainable consumption and food transformations of the two proposing organizations. With the experienced guidance of Carrefour and Taipei Medical University, students transformed the hard-to-realize concepts into a complete design that can be implemented in Carrefour stores to satisfy the practical needs of the stores.

The finished product was implemented in the “Carrefour impact concept store” and will be applied to the family medicine, pediatrics, and pediatric cancer hospitals of Taipei Medical University in the future.

Issuer Quan-Neng Lin

Chief Editor Chi-Yi Chang

Deputy Chief Editors Oliver Lin, Nina S.T. Ay

Members of the Editorial Board Vivian Wu, Angela Sher, Steffy Sun, Ginger Chang, Isis Chien

Managing Editor Yin-Hsuan Li, Yan-Chun Lin, Ju-Hui Chou, Tsen-Fang Wei, Ying-Ying Hsu, Jia Lin Cao, Hsun-Ting Liu

Art Design U Visual Communication Co., Ltd.

Directed by Industrial Development Bureau, MOEA

Publishing Organization Taiwan Design Reseach Institute

Special Thanks to

Dot Design Co., Ltd. | Everplast Machinery Co., Ltd. | Folio Hotel

Fu Jen Catholic University Hospital | Legowall Construction Materials Co., Ltd.

Miniwiz Co., Ltd. | O'right International Corporation | Presicarre Corporation

REnato Lab Inc. | Spring Pool Glass Industrial Co., Ltd.

Strong and Wise Material Tech Company | Taipei Medical University

Taiwan Comfort Champ Manufacturing Co., Ltd.