Shang Shui
Shang Shui Historic Reminder by Yueh Mei Cheng is a winner of the 2024 Bronze A' Design Award in Installation Design.
Shang Shui is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a much prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness.
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The Shang Shui integrates four design elements like tobacco, irrigated water channels, sustainable sources, and the light of hope. They symbolize the memories of Old Taichung-Jiushe, blending the hundred-year development history and land memories of Taichung into the art. Utilizing Augmented Reality, it creates an immersive vision, allowing passengers passing through the Jiushe to witness the history of Taichung's development, thus bringing the environment closer to people. The shimmering water ripples on the ground are given a life-like quality, infusing the site with abundant energy.
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Shang Shui by Yueh Mei Cheng
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Historic Reminder
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Installation Design Award Winner in 2024.
Bronze Winner
Shang Shui Historic Reminder
Shang Shui is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a much prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness. Bronze winners are amply skillful and strikingly creative artifacts that authenticate the vast experience, imagination, and resourcefulness of their designers. Shang Shui is expected to be a highly-regarded, admired, and cherished object that is notably professional and innovative. This Bronze A' Design Award-winning design incorporates best practices in art, science, design, and technology, and is excellent for its attention to detail. Shang Shui splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.
Winner Designer
Yueh Mei Cheng
Yueh Mei Cheng is a distinguished professor at the School of Architecture at Feng Chia University in Taiwan. Her creative endeavors span various mixed media and interactive digital technologies, synthesizing Eastern and Western art theories into a cohesive and expansive artistic style and form. Her works present a diverse and rich cross-cultural contemporary perspective, serving as a perfect interpretation of the fusion between Eastern and Western cultures. She was once invited to collaborate with the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) on her "Emotional Color Thermometer" invention creating a digital interactive painting/light installation named "Introspection" for the International Floral Expo.
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Taichung Mass Rapid Transit Corporation
In order to keep up with the rapid development of Taichung City, the Taiwanese government's Ministry of Transportation has prioritized the development of a mass rapid transit system, known as the Taichung MRT. The Taichung MRT, also referred to as the Taichung MRT Green Line, aims for sustainable operation. It is the first metro line in central Taiwan, connecting railway and high-speed rail systems, bridging the urban-rural gap in Taichung, and linking the bustling commercial districts of New Taichung, thereby promoting the growth of Old Taichung - Jiushe. The line comprises a total of 18 stations. The artwork Shang Shui is located on the east side of the first floor of the Old Taichung - Jiushe station of the Taichung MRT, serving as a passage for passengers traveling to and from Jiushe station.
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