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Chih-Kang Chu Receives the Bronze A' Design Award for Trolley Coaster Installation in Performing Arts, Stage, Style and Scenery Design
Chih-Kang Chu recognized for performing arts, stage, style and scenery design by the international grand jury of the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2021 /DesignNewswire/ Trolley Coaster Installation by Chih-Kang Chu, designed for Cultural Affairs Department of PINGTUNG County Government, has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Performing Arts, Stage, Style and Scenery Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The award was conferred within the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition and was reached through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who evaluated anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
What the Bronze A' Design Award Means
The Bronze A' Design Award is given to outstanding designs that showcase a high degree of creativity and practicality. It recognizes the dedication and skill of designers who produce work that stands out for its thoughtful development and innovative use of materials and technology. These designs are acknowledged for their professional execution and potential to influence industry standards positively. Winning this award highlights the designer's ability to blend form and function effectively, offering solutions that enhance people's lives and wellbeing.
More About Trolley Coaster Installation
Trolley Coaster is a dynamic installation created for a design exhibition in Pingtung, Taiwan. Two overlapping elevated tracks carry shopping trolleys around a venue of 6600 square metres, linking six themed exhibition areas. The moving trolleys recall the sight and the sound of a supermarket. The tracks were designed and produced by glove puppetry stage cart technicians. The trolleys were borrowed from a retail company and returned for public use after the exhibition. The motors, wheels and tracks were reused for puppetry stage carts, lowering cost and waste.
About Chih-Kang Chu
Chu comes from Taiwan and has been exposed to rich culture since his childhood. Chinese cultural elements, which are not superficial but with deep cultural connotation, could always be found in his design. Combined with his keen observation of scenario, his works could always awaken those emotions in people’s memories. That is why his works could touch readers’ heart. His works touch not only Chinese who have shared cultural memories, but also westerners. “In Chu’s works, we see new modern eastern design” said such westerners.
Award Record
Chih-Kang Chu is a winner of 3 A' Design Awards, including this recognition. The awards span the editions from 2015 - 2016 to 2020 - 2021 of the A' Design Award & Competition.
About the A' Performing Arts, Stage, Style and Scenery Design Award
The A' Performing Arts Design Award is an international competition recognizing excellence in set, stage, and performing arts design by top designers worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to performing arts designers, set designers, theater architects and costume designers from all countries. Entries typically include choreography, dance moves, theatrical sets, dance costumes, stage lighting and opera props. Awarded performing arts designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/performing-arts
About A' Design Award & Competition
A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade organized annually since 2008. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The A' Design Award has a philanthropic mission to advance society through good design by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Entries are peer reviewed and anonymously evaluated by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. The A' Design Prize granted to eligible laureates includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, the upload of a work and the preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. Further information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://designers.org/111246
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/111246
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!111246
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/154809
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://2019.designexpo.org.tw/en/
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Trolley Coaster Installation
- Function
- Installation
- Category
- Performing Arts, Stage, Style and Scenery Design
- Discipline
- Communication Design
- Industry
- Arts and Entertainment
- Colors
- Dark Olive Green, Dark Slate Gray, Dim Gray, Dark Khaki and Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Cultural Affairs Department of PINGTUNG County Government
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Chih-Kang Chu
- Country
- Taiwan (China)
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2020 - 2021
- Design ID
- #111246
Credits
- Team
- Meng-Hung Tsai, Shin Yu and Yao-Chou Yu
- Image Credits
- Photographer Kuo-Min Lee, Trolley Coaster, 2019
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- The dynamic installation, Trolley Coaster, was a joint effort between the government and the public. The tracks were designed and produced by glove puppetry stage cart technicians. The Pingtung County Government and Taiwan Design Center collaborated with a private corporation to borrow trolleys for the installation, lowering costs and potential waste of resources. All trolleys part of the trolley coaster will be safely returned to Carrefour after the exhibit to continue serving the public.
- Inspiration
- Trolley Coaster evokes the happiness and anticipation of shopping in the supermarket before the holiday. Two tracks that sometimes overlapping and trolleys winding down the tracks like roller coasters in a theme park. Visitors will be able to see the trolleys coasting down the tracks but also hear the sounds of the trolley which reminds them of a supermarket thus transforming the design expo into a happy and vibrant Super South Supermarket.
- Research
- Trolley Coaster not only solves the problem of space use, strengthens the concept of exhibition, but also increases the topicality of the exhibition and improves the publicity effect. Shopping in the supermarket is a common experience. The dynamic installation evokes the memory of the supermarket visually and acoustically, echoing the local enthusiasm of Pingtung, bringing the design expo closer to the public.
- Challenge
- The Trolley Coaster is like a roller coaster in an amusement park, attracting people to the exhibition; at the entrance, it is the focus of vision and becomes an important visual for the people to check in; when the people enter the exhibition, the roller coaster becomes a series of links In the background of each exhibition area, the elevated track has invisibly partitioned and visited the exhibition venue.
- Realization and Technology
- Many large exhibits produce a large amount of waste which is why this time, we chose to take advantage of materials that could largely be recycled and reused. As the exhibit would only last for two weeks, we had already planned for where everything will go after the exhibit in the very early stages of planning. We’ve already found a home for the trolleys, scaffolds, motors, tracks, wheels, and canvas. The trolleys were borrowed from private corporation – Carrefour. All trolleys part of the trolley coaster will be safely returned to Carrefour after the exhibit to continue serving the public. The tracks were designed and produced by glove puppetry stage cart technicians.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project design process started in June 2019 and finished in August 2019. The construction started in August 2019 and finished at 1st October. Taiwan Design Expo’19 started from 5th October to 20th October to public. There were a total 4.25 million visitors, which breaks the records in the number of visitors of Taiwan Design Expo.
- Specifications
- The main venue is 6600 m2. The space is quite large, even though there are six themed exhibitions in the area, it still looks a little empty. Therefore, using two passing across tracks, the trolleys surround the entire exhibition area to connect all the themed exhibitions.
- Keywords
- Trolley Coaster, dynamic installation, Taiwan Design Expo, Pingtung, Chu Chih-Kang
