What if the future souvenir of the Highlands is not just a physical object to take away, but a tangible contribution left behind?

Inspired by origami and Sumida’s historical connection to paper craftsmanship and printing industries, the project encourages visitors to explore local neighbourhoods rather than only major tourist attractions. Through field research, we found that many cultural spots and unique shops are scattered throughout the district, leading to the idea of a treasure-hunt-style journey.

Each origami sheet provides clues to the next destination, and collected sheets can later be assembled into a map of the visitor’s exploration. The reverse side introduces local history and origami instructions, transforming tourism into a playful and participatory cultural experience.

The programme was guided by Scott Carballo, Xinyue Liu and Chuan Zhao with on-site insights from heritage professional Helen Avenell from the St. Laurence Forres Trust.

Together, we engaged with a real-world context - observing, listening, and mapping stakeholders to understand the relationships within the system.

Our project focused on St. Laurence Church, exploring how the space could be activated through events to generate sustainable income while building partnerships with the local community.

By focusing on identity and visibility, we developed a series of seasonal interventions, including a zine, a floor mural, and rotating installations, each designed to respond to different use scenarios and strengthen community engagement.

This experience challenged me to rethink how cultural spaces can shift from static heritage sites into active community platforms.

The course introduced design thinking integrated with circular economy principles, translating these concepts into basic business and entrepreneurial models suitable for young learners.

The school’s mission is to expose students to knowledge beyond the standard curriculum and to equip them with skills and mindsets for future entrepreneurship.

However, as highlighted by local teachers, educational resources in Nepal are often fragmented and limited, and accessing educators with both design methodology and business knowledge typically involves high costs.

Through this program, I aimed to bridge this gap by delivering interdisciplinary education in a low-resource, accessible, and age-appropriate manner, helping students develop problem-solving skills, creative confidence, and early awareness of sustainability and value creation.

This project integrates bus stops directly with pedestrian pathways, eliminating gaps and uneven surfaces to ensure effortless, safe boarding for everyone.

Backed by real-world testing and data analysis, our design significantly reduces boarding time and fall risks, proving that accessibility-driven urban planning can empower individuals and create truly inclusive cities.

Global temperature extremes have increased both the incidence and fatality rate of heat stroke, and the majority of cases take place outside of hospitals, without the assistance of medical personnel.

People who work in manual labour ignore vital physiological signals and are unaware that heat stroke is happening, losing the crucial 30 minutes for rescue and risking permanent physical harm or death. The general public is unaware of the proper treatment for heat stroke, even though medical specialists can frequently recognise labour-related heat stroke rapidly.

With the development of technology, augmented reality (AR) technology has been incorporated into a variety of industries, providing the medical sector with cutting-edge applications in the area of emergency care. Medical practitioners can swiftly and repeatedly exercise their medical skills by using the advantages of visual medicine when augmented reality technology is used in conjunction with applications for clinical training and practice.

Numerous studies have adapted augmented reality technology into applications to help first responders make crucial ambulance decisions in increasingly complicated situations with a visual aid interface, improving the effectiveness of emergency care.

In conclusion, this study focuses on how augmented reality technology may be used to create an interface that enables members of the general public to obtain care for heat stroke victims as quickly and effectively as possible. This project adopts a Quality Function Deployment to develop a user interface for heatstroke first aid that will satisfy users' demands and design criteria. The user interface is meant to give them a quick and easy way to understand how to manage heat stroke victims before they seek medical attention.

This study explores future needs and trends in AI-powered design-manufacturing collaboration for circular economy business models, focusing on Taiwan’s small and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises (SMEs), particularly in sectors such as textiles, electronics, and recycling-related industries.

By integrating global sustainability trends and circular economy strategies, the research investigates how hybrid design and manufacturing models can drive sustainability and enhance resource efficiency. Using Quality Function Deployment (QFD) methodology, the study identifies key design requirements and translates them into technical solutions to address gaps in design-manufacturing collaboration.

International case studies were selected from countries consistently ranked in the top ten of the United Nations Sustainable Development Report (2020–2024). Selection was guided by criteria such as engagement in circular economy practices, relevance to SMEs, industrial structure similarity, innovation potential, and overall sustainability performance.

The findings highlight the role of artificial intelligence in bridging cognitive gaps, Impact on SMEs, optimising resource allocation, and improving decision- making processes between design and manufacturing. The study concludes with recommendations to implement collaborative frameworks, leveraging AI tools to achieve equal partnerships and advance Taiwan’s SMEs toward a competitive, sustainable future.

Limitations include the reliance on expert perspectives and selected case studies; thus, future work should involve longitudinal studies and cross- sectoral validation to refine the proposed framework and assess measurable outcomes.

At the same time, the logo is developed with flexibility in mind, enabling future applications through a wide range of color combinations and visual systems across tourism, cultural events, and local branding materials.

This design uses backflow incense and incense ware to connect Dunhuang’s religious culture, artistic heritage, and geographical environment. The ceramic incense holder features a stone-like exterior inspired by cave textures, while glazed transfer patterns inside reference the visual language of Dunhuang murals.

interactive experiences."

The Port of Keelung, which serves as the largest passenger port in Taiwan, is a significant economic hub for the city.

However, research indicates that international tourists often have Taipei

as their primary destination rather than Keelung.

Therefore, this project aims to leverage the flow of international

tourists by promoting Keelung as a prime location for frequent

cruise ship stops.

In response, Urban Tree proposes a modular air purification system under a leasing model, enabling governments to deploy units flexibly and cost-effectively across various urban scales. This approach not only improves residential air quality but also ensures a sustainable revenue stream for the urban tree.

At the same time, the design language adopts biomimicry-inspired forms to create a closer connection between people, nature, and human behavior.

The form resembles a travel pillow, symbolising the EU’s mission to ensure that its people can feel comfortable and secure wherever they are in the world.

The aim of this study is to develop an application utilizing Augmented Reality (AR) technology to enhance English language learning.

Employing the Quality Function Deployment (QFD) method and

instructional steps involving Concept Mapping (CM), we identified important design elements and learning

content. Firstly, user requirements concerning interface style, CM application, and AR interface were explored through brainstorming sessions.

Subsequently, employing the Point of View method, we established vital user requirements, and the How Might We method was used to transform them into

design elements. The most significant design elements were selected through an evaluation of a relationship matrix.

Based on the most important design elements and instructional steps involving CM, the primary design direction was determined, involving the amalgamation of physical word cards and AR visual effects in the form of AR Vocabulary Card. To assess the application's effectiveness, 9 users aged between 20 and 31, with over five years of English learning experience, participated in 10-15 minutes of learning.

Their feedback was collected through vocabulary assessment and semi-structured interviews.

Results indicated that users held a favorable impression of the vocabulary learned through AR Vocabulary Card.

User recommendations mainly centered around the AR interface and its features, as well as CM learning.

In summary, this study has created the AR Vocabulary Card, offering English learners an innovative learning tool. It also underscores the promising role of AR in design education, personalized learning, and user engagement, shaping more interactive and effective learning experiences in the future.

Subsequent

research can focus on enhancing features, integrating it into authentic learning contexts, and broadening the sample size for more comprehensive user feedback.

The bottle is embellished with bubbles from the fermenting yeast and water, bringing the bottle to life.

The matte glass texture creates the

atmosphere of steam generated during the brewing process, bringing the charm of the craft to life from a design perspective.

Through changes in temperature, the liquid inside creates evolving physical phenomena, offering emotional comfort and companionship for people experiencing feelings of depression, whether at home or outdoors. By using a low-tech approach, the object forms a more intimate and sensitive interaction with its user.

Combining principles of physics and chemistry, the lamp recreates artificial natural phenomena within the glass chamber. Through a gradual and calming sensory experience, it gently encourages users to open themselves emotionally and slowly return to the rhythm of everyday life.

The warmth generated by the traditional halogen bulb provides a tangible sense of physical comfort, while its heat also activates chemical reactions within the liquid-filled shade, allowing the storm glass to continuously transform over time.

of Taiwan's Matsu Islands through the

creation of artificial floating islands at

sea

The space bridges past and future.

Why

NCKU's Public Health Department grew from a graduate program, needing a fresh look. To stay eco-friendly, existing items were reused as much as possible.

How

Reused and reorganized items, added functional ones, and integrated online-offline systems. Modular designs allow flexibility for future growth.

Results

Most of objects reused with adaptability for future expansion/replacement, including corkboard teaching walls, adjustable bulletin boards, linked space guides, and a repurposed student map.

During the event, participants use specially provided retro cameras to capture their personal memories and emotional connections with Tainan. After returning to their home countries, they can replay and share these nostalgic moments with friends and family, transforming the experience into a lasting cultural story that extends beyond the journey itself.

Its three eyes never miss any food in sight, while its five agile legs quickly carry it toward every delicious meal before devouring it in one big bite.

The character design is inspired by the process of sculpting clay, expressing the limitless possibilities of form and creativity through hand-shaping. This reflects Shang Shan Cai Mi’s passion and attitude toward culinary innovation. The use of restrained, understated colors helps people focus on enjoying the brunch experience itself, while also conveying that Shang Shan Cai Mi values not superficial appearance, but the true soul and depth of food.

What if
bio-metabolic interfaces were not just eco-equipment, but desirable artefacts embedded in everyday life?

In Moray, Scotland’s premier whisky-producing region, the continuous evaporation of ethanol from distilleries, the “Angel’s Share”, drives the uncontrolled growth of whisky fungus (Baudoinia compniacensis). This phenomenon reveals a limitation of conventional circular economy models: while they focus on closing industrial material loops, they often overlook the wider ecological impacts of industry, creating tensions between distilleries, local environments, and communities.

Rather than treating whisky fungus as a nuisance, this project reframes it as a design opportunity. Positioned between industrial and social design, it uses a site-specific artefact to connect industrial processes with ecological awareness, making otherwise invisible flows of wind, ethanol, and time physically perceptible.

The outcome, Aero Foliage, utilises a parametrically textured Kappa-carrageenan substrate designed as a series of contemporary tartans. By translating the unique geographical and natural elements of different towns across Moray into physical topographies, the artefact encourages localised fungal colonisation.

As it gradually blackens in response to local microclimates, the artefact becomes a living record of whisky production. Moving beyond the product level of the circular economy, it extends circular thinking to the socio-ecological level, transforming industrial emissions into catalysts for ecological regeneration, cultural meaning, and new forms of coexistence within patchy landscapes.

Design can more easily help customers in their circular transition strategy.

Why

Currently, most circular transition tools or consulting services are only affordable for large enterprises. The development goal of C-BAT is to address two major pain points commonly faced by designers before engaging in circular design innovation: 1. The expectation gap in project scale between designers and clients; 2. Companies' reluctance to invest or insufficient disclosure of internal and industry information, which hinders circular design projects from achieving their intended impact in business model innovation.

How

C-BAT integrates various technologies from multiple fields through design. By conducting a survey with 50 leaders from local small and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises, and performing in-depth interviews and UX testing with 7 local designers using product personas, we compare the current user experience of designers with clients' willingness to disclose information. This process is systematised and broken down into complete steps, with corresponding supporting tools constructed based on literature, to provide more comprehensive assistance in the communication process for designers.

Results

C-BAT digitises the service process to assist designers through three aspects: guidance, provision, and support. It leverages the advantages of artificial intelligence in key point summarisation and cross-analysis, enabling designers to conduct preliminary research with less time and cost. By integrating design with various technological fields, it allows design innovation to genuinely explore the core issues related to resource leakage.