New Taipei City’s aesthetic style and culture are highly diverse. Therefore, in the design of the exhibition experience, we sought to reflect the city’s unique character, presenting its raw, vibrant texture through visuals, sound, and content. This city has been the stage for many bold and fearless artistic actions, where much of the creative energy of rejection, resistance, and explosion has emerged. In the main visual presentation, we aimed to break away from the conventional imagery of "power" and the typical flat graphic design concept. By using various promotional materials and textures, we created a collage on the walls, symbolizing the convergence of diverse ideas. Techniques like tearing, layering, painting, and scraping were employed to represent the marks left by these ideas transforming into power, shaping the New Taipei City of today.
In This City, Courage is Freedom
In This City, Courage is Freedom
In This City, Courage is Freedom
Experience Approach Inspired by the City's Character
New Taipei City’s aesthetic style and culture are highly diverse. Therefore, in the design of the exhibition experience, we sought to reflect the city’s unique character, presenting its raw, vibrant texture through visuals, sound, and content. This city has been the stage for many bold and fearless artistic actions, where much of the creative energy of rejection, resistance, and explosion has emerged. In the main visual presentation, we aimed to break away from the conventional imagery of "power" and the typical flat graphic design concept. By using various promotional materials and textures, we created a collage on the walls, symbolizing the convergence of diverse ideas. Techniques like tearing, layering, painting, and scraping were employed to represent the marks left by these ideas transforming into power, shaping the New Taipei City of today.
New Taipei City’s aesthetic style and culture are highly diverse. Therefore, in the design of the exhibition experience, we sought to reflect the city’s unique character, presenting its raw, vibrant texture through visuals, sound, and content. This city has been the stage for many bold and fearless artistic actions, where much of the creative energy of rejection, resistance, and explosion has emerged. In the main visual presentation, we aimed to break away from the conventional imagery of "power" and the typical flat graphic design concept. By using various promotional materials and textures, we created a collage on the walls, symbolizing the convergence of diverse ideas. Techniques like tearing, layering, painting, and scraping were employed to represent the marks left by these ideas transforming into power, shaping the New Taipei City of today.
New Taipei City’s aesthetic style and culture are highly diverse. Therefore, in the design of the exhibition experience, we sought to reflect the city’s unique character, presenting its raw, vibrant texture through visuals, sound, and content. This city has been the stage for many bold and fearless artistic actions, where much of the creative energy of rejection, resistance, and explosion has emerged. In the main visual presentation, we aimed to break away from the conventional imagery of "power" and the typical flat graphic design concept. By using various promotional materials and textures, we created a collage on the walls, symbolizing the convergence of diverse ideas. Techniques like tearing, layering, painting, and scraping were employed to represent the marks left by these ideas transforming into power, shaping the New Taipei City of today.
New Taipei City’s aesthetic style and culture are highly diverse. Therefore, in the design of the exhibition experience, we sought to reflect the city’s unique character, presenting its raw, vibrant texture through visuals, sound, and content. This city has been the stage for many bold and fearless artistic actions, where much of the creative energy of rejection, resistance, and explosion has emerged. In the main visual presentation, we aimed to break away from the conventional imagery of "power" and the typical flat graphic design concept. By using various promotional materials and textures, we created a collage on the walls, symbolizing the convergence of diverse ideas. Techniques like tearing, layering, painting, and scraping were employed to represent the marks left by these ideas transforming into power, shaping the New Taipei City of today.
The City of many forces – The Bold Boundaries
After traversing historical narratives, we delve into the diverse contexts that have nurtured boldness in New Taipei City. Following two months of desk research and interviews, the team categorized the city into four perspectives: "Water and Tradition" "Metropolis and Identity" "Life and Humanities" and "Mountains and Nature."
Each perspective features one or two creators, either rooted in or based in New Taipei, who use their social position and actions as a form of advocacy. Through in-depth interviews with these creators, we uncover their thought processes, life experiences, and connections to the city, revealing their questions and reflections on the world.
After traversing historical narratives, we delve into the diverse contexts that have nurtured boldness in New Taipei City. Following two months of desk research and interviews, the team categorized the city into four perspectives: "Water and Tradition" "Metropolis and Identity" "Life and Humanities" and "Mountains and Nature."
Each perspective features one or two creators, either rooted in or based in New Taipei, who use their social position and actions as a form of advocacy. Through in-depth interviews with these creators, we uncover their thought processes, life experiences, and connections to the city, revealing their questions and reflections on the world.
After traversing historical narratives, we delve into the diverse contexts that have nurtured boldness in New Taipei City. Following two months of desk research and interviews, the team categorized the city into four perspectives: "Water and Tradition" "Metropolis and Identity" "Life and Humanities" and "Mountains and Nature."
Each perspective features one or two creators, either rooted in or based in New Taipei, who use their social position and actions as a form of advocacy. Through in-depth interviews with these creators, we uncover their thought processes, life experiences, and connections to the city, revealing their questions and reflections on the world.
After traversing historical narratives, we delve into the diverse contexts that have nurtured boldness in New Taipei City. Following two months of desk research and interviews, the team categorized the city into four perspectives: "Water and Tradition" "Metropolis and Identity" "Life and Humanities" and "Mountains and Nature."
Each perspective features one or two creators, either rooted in or based in New Taipei, who use their social position and actions as a form of advocacy. Through in-depth interviews with these creators, we uncover their thought processes, life experiences, and connections to the city, revealing their questions and reflections on the world.
After traversing historical narratives, we delve into the diverse contexts that have nurtured boldness in New Taipei City. Following two months of desk research and interviews, the team categorized the city into four perspectives: "Water and Tradition" "Metropolis and Identity" "Life and Humanities" and "Mountains and Nature."
Each perspective features one or two creators, either rooted in or based in New Taipei, who use their social position and actions as a form of advocacy. Through in-depth interviews with these creators, we uncover their thought processes, life experiences, and connections to the city, revealing their questions and reflections on the world.
水彩 WATERCOLOR
在橋上的舞龍｜ Daxi Bridge and dragon dance
水彩 ARTSTYLE-ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM
油畫 ARTSTYLE-ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM
在老街的舞獅 ｜Daxi old street and lion dance
大漢溪與貓｜Daxi River and cat
漫畫 COMIC BOOK
廟宇與舞獅 | Temple and lion dance
In This City, Courage is Freedom
"The Bold" focuses on contemporary New Taipei, exploring the soil of the city that nurtures a spirit of freedom and defiance. Though the forms and methods vary, they all share subtle forces that strive to break the constraints of time, life, culture, systems, and identity. If design is about exploring the relationship between form and content, then the spirit of "Breaking Boundaries" is also a kind of design—every attempt, every exception, every act of resistance is a process of designing an ideal world. And this process can happen in our everyday lives. What defines New Taipei? It is a city without a typical lifestyle or collective image, making it a place that embraces attempts, exceptions, and resistance. Various aspirations for freedom may all find their realization here. The exhibition is divided into two sections: "The Practice of Boldness" and "The Spirit of Boldness." "The Practice of Boldness" starts from four unique geographical and cultural features of New Taipei, showcasing how different forms of boldness emerge from individual actions within the city. "The Spirit of Boldness" invites viewers to reflect on the core values through storytelling.
