The winning works from the Taipei New Horizon Foundation’s annual design competition go on display today at the Bopiliao Historic Block (剝皮寮歷史街區) in Taipei’s Wanhua District (萬華).
This year’s winners are: Future Family — Artificial Intelligence Aquarium (未來家庭—人工智慧水族箱) by Lin Jin-yao (林經堯), Huang Yu-chieh (黃郁傑) and Wang Han-lei (王瀚磊); On the Island Breathing (在島上呼吸) by Air Structure Lab; and Private Space (私人空間) by Yang Jheng-chun (楊政錞).
The projects won grants of NT$1 million (US$32,540), NT$500,000 and NT$300,000 respectively.
Photo: Screengrab from Taipei New Horizon Art Festival’s Facebook page
As a part of its Taipei New Horizon Art Festival, the foundation also awarded consolation prizes of NT$5,000 each to 10 projects.
One of the projects was Red Dot winner Under 1.0 (瀕危1.0) by National Taiwan University of Arts Department of Visual Communication Design graduate Wan Xiang-xin (萬向欣).
In the piece, Wan reimagines the Landolt C chart — also known as the Japanese vision test — to raise awareness about animals in the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List of Threatened Species.
The foundation said that from April 19 to July, it received 218 entries for the festival, which is themed “My Style.”
The winning designs are to be displayed in the historic block’s exhibition room 155 until Sept. 14.
They are then to be exhibited at Taipei New Horizon Building’s Cultural Plaza at Songshan Cultural and Creative Park (松山文創園區) from Oct. 25 to Nov. 18.
A group of Taiwanese-American and Tibetan-American students at Harvard University on Saturday disrupted Chinese Ambassador to the US Xie Feng’s (謝鋒) speech at the school, accusing him of being responsible for numerous human rights violations. Four students — two Taiwanese Americans and two from Tibet — held up banners inside a conference hall where Xie was delivering a speech at the opening ceremony of the Harvard Kennedy School China Conference 2024. In a video clip provided by the Coalition of Students Resisting the CCP (Chinese Communist Party), Taiwanese-American Cosette Wu (吳亭樺) and Tibetan-American Tsering Yangchen are seen holding banners that together read:
UNAWARE: Many people sit for long hours every day and eat unhealthy foods, putting them at greater risk of developing one of the ‘three highs,’ an expert said More than 30 percent of adults aged 40 or older who underwent a government-funded health exam were unaware they had at least one of the “three highs” — high blood pressure, high blood lipids or high blood sugar, the Health Promotion Administration (HPA) said yesterday. Among adults aged 40 or older who said they did not have any of the “three highs” before taking the health exam, more than 30 percent were found to have at least one of them, Adult Preventive Health Examination Service data from 2022 showed. People with long-term medical conditions such as hypertension or diabetes usually do not
POLICE INVESTIGATING: A man said he quit his job as a nurse at Taipei Tzu Chi Hospital as he had been ‘disgusted’ by the behavior of his colleagues A man yesterday morning wrote online that he had witnessed nurses taking photographs and touching anesthetized patients inappropriately in Taipei Tzu Chi Hospital’s operating theaters. The man surnamed Huang (黃) wrote on the Professional Technology Temple bulletin board that during his six-month stint as a nurse at the hospital, he had seen nurses taking pictures of patients, including of their private parts, after they were anesthetized. Some nurses had also touched patients inappropriately and children were among those photographed, he said. Huang said this “disgusted” him “so much” that “he felt the need to reveal these unethical acts in the operating theater
Heat advisories were in effect for nine administrative regions yesterday afternoon as warm southwesterly winds pushed temperatures above 38°C in parts of southern Taiwan, the Central Weather Administration (CWA) said. As of 3:30pm yesterday, Tainan’s Yujing District (玉井) had recorded the day’s highest temperature of 39.7°C, though the measurement will not be included in Taiwan’s official heat records since Yujing is an automatic rather than manually operated weather station, the CWA said. Highs recorded in other areas were 38.7°C in Kaohsiung’s Neimen District (內門), 38.2°C in Chiayi City and 38.1°C in Pingtung’s Sandimen Township (三地門), CWA data showed. The spell of scorching