Projection-covered walls, color-coded rooms, motion-based computers and full-size glass panels. It’s not the backdrop to the newest Hollywood science fiction flick, in fact it can all be found right in downtown Taipei.
There are subtle signs all over that this is not your average run-of-the-mill office. Glancing across the room, an election poster lies tacked on the wall, while campaign slogans are pasted in bold letters.
Then there’s the presence of Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) candidate for Taipei City mayor Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌).
PHOTO: LIU HSIN-DE, TAIPEI TIMES
The 62-year-old former premier opened his new campaign office, located on Jianguo N Road Sec 1 and named “Office of Taipei’s future,” to a crowd of supporters on Tuesday morning.
Playing to his election slogan of “Taipei [will] surpass Taipei,” Su said his campaign office displayed his willingness to hold “new ideas and new attitudes.”
The focus of the office, a huge motion-activated projection wall, comes alive with a sweep of the arm, a motion that Su demonstrated for the crowd. The sweep brings into view dozens of suggestions from Taipei City residents.
The technology keeps with Su’s campaign pledge to establish new methods of communication with city residents to keep track of their comments, suggestions and thoughts for Taipei’s future, Facebook user and Plurk savvy Su said.
“We want to use our limited space to showcase a larg amount of information,” he said. “Using new technologies, we can better communicate with Taipei residents, letting their ideas become our consensus.”
The improvements are the brainchild of Su’s team of young campaign volunteers, which was allowed to freely dream up concepts and apply them to his campaign.
“I only use people who have even better abilities than me,” Su said. “It’s why I have such a strong team.”
Meanwhile, DPP candidate for Sinbei City mayor, party chairperson Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文), also unveiled her first campaign office on Tuesday afternoon.
Still under construction — Tsai announced her bid two months after Su — the campaign office is located inside a high rise on Banciao’s (板橋) ritzy Sinfu Road.
In keeping with Tsai’s low-key style, campaign spokesperson Cheng Li-chun (鄭麗君) told reporters that the finished office would likely be “very minimalistic, but very effective.”
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