Infusing emotion as a medium for design sustainability

The Peel is based on touch. Through contact with the textures of the cup, not only are users’ thinking and feelings through touch memory called forth, but the cups contain a double-layered, hollow designed ceramic technology so users can hold their cup while drinking hot beverages without worrying about the cup becoming too hot to the touch. This is what I meant when I mentioned the core of my design: “Extend memory touch through the evolution of technology.” In the face of ever-improving technology and changing lifestyles, the configuration can quickly become a thing of the past. Creating designs with more possibilities or influences allows for sustainability to become the core of the design, helping to create sustainable design products and instill every design with sustainable value. During the creation and application of my products, my design philosophy of “Symbiotic Emotion” deeply influences every detail and consideration. By injecting emotional design into my work, my symbiotic emotion serves as a medium for sustainable design.

Caption: Evolved technology extends memory touch

The Sensory Connecting Memory –– The Influence of Beauty

From product design, we expanded to spatial design/renovation, curatorial planning, interior design, and other fields. The Peel is a clear and concrete empathic design, and many of our subsequent works have shown and conveyed the importance and influence of emotion in the design process.

Caption: INTERLACED uses WIRE MESH to create the effect of a blurred light source, presenting the subtle interaction of light.

The concept of the “INTERLACED” screen lamp also comes from our design team’s daily life. In a courtyard house garden, the moon outside the window filters through the pane of a wooden window frame. To replicate that simultaneously blurry yet clear view, WIRE MESH was used to create the effect of a blurred light source. As a lamp, it illuminates and can also be used as a situational decoration; as a screen, it can segment the visuals by creating an effect by rearrangement based on density while feeling the subtle interaction of light.

INTERLACED uses the interweaving of mesh and the tenacity of wood to place the light source behind the mesh screen, but it’s surprisingly soft and integrated. Each time a customer selects it as a furnishing, a new experience and aesthetic feeling is created. At an exhibit, a visitor stood in front of the INTERLACED for a long time, stating new feelings that the INTERLACED welled up in him. This piece is also my continuation of emotion in design and practice in sustainable design. In addition to a connection with memory, it’s also an appreciation of beauty.

Continuous Expansion of Vision, Demonstrating Design Influence

Expand emotional design into different fields, retain the value of the original building; with modern design, infuse functional furniture for a new campus look

The Tong-hsin Hall and the Future Roof Room at Hsinchu Municipal Beimen Elementary School are spatial buildings with century-old histories. Before the renovation, I was already attracted to the characteristics of the original building. When designing, it was necessary to not only maintain the quality of the original building but to also create a space that keeps in step with the times in order to spur on the vitality of children when in use. The bright color schemes stimulate students’ visual experience and create a rich and interesting learning atmosphere. Integrating emotions into design considerations where the old and new coexist; through memories and images of different times and spaces, the historical value of Hsinchu Beimen Elementary School will be perpetuated.

On a different level and through a different field, this work demonstrates “extending the emotion, the influence of beauty.” When I practice empathy design, I consider the people and the objects and transform them into spaces: physical space and time-space. This isn’t done to reduce the importance of people and objects, but rather, to preserve and present the beauty and emotion of the past, present, and future, and allow for them to ferment within these architectural spaces, showing the influence of the design.

Caption: Tong-hsin Hall was originally a lecture hall during the Japanese colonial era. With the concept of being a “campus museum,” Tong-hsin Hall is now transformed into a children’s exploratory base.

Caption: Using modern designs, inject functional furniture into the campus space, retain the beauty of the original building, and present the Future Roof Room.

The Value of Sustainable Design Continues with Emotion

Designs offer different trends in different eras, such as innovation, customization, and transformation... These are all different aspects of design. In response to the needs of current lifestyles, people’s expectations for design and the influence they bring are constantly changing. And in the design field, we pay more and more attention to the value of “sustainability.” This connotation is found in the selection of the right materials and the right application, without the possibility of waste, loss, and damage. It’s also expected that it’ll be a work that transcends the backgrounds of time and space and life needs, and will be preserved, used, defined, and given value. With the ongoing development of science and technology, extending and injecting emotion into design gives a timeless connection between the work and the user, which may be an existing connection/habit, a feeling of the moment, or a new experience, which will continue to circulate. In future time and space, emotions from these memories will emerge, and the user will have another experience again. Through the core concept of “symbiotic emotion,” this won’t be limited to a single design field. It can be cultivated on different levels, allowing the design to continue to expand and the design value to be sustainable.