Fàdákà Àjọ · 2021
Daxi Daxi Ajọdun Aṣa Agbegbe
by BIAS Architects and Associates
- Àmì-ẹ̀yẹ Fàdákà A' Design Award 2021 in Àjọ
- CLIENT: Taoyuan City Government, Department of Cultural Affairs, & Daxi Ecomuseum
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 45,374
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About Daxi Daxi Ajọdun Aṣa Agbegbe
Lati ọdun 2018, BIAS ti ni idagbasoke ati imuse ajọdun ilu kan lati ṣe iranlọwọ fun ilu Daxi ngbaradi fun ayẹyẹ ẹsin pataki ti aaye naa. Nigbagbogbo, awọn ayẹyẹ Taiwanese jẹ Konsafetifu ati ti o da lori awọn aṣa igberiko ti o ṣe ilana ilana ti o muna. Lati pin ifaya ti awọn igbagbọ eniyan pẹlu gbogbo eniyan ilu, BIAS ṣe agbero awọn aṣa nipasẹ eto ilana ti awọn ilowosi apẹrẹ ati awọn iṣe ti o pese gbigbọn aṣa agbejade si iṣẹlẹ naa. Ni pataki, BIAS ṣe bi olutọju ati pe ọpọlọpọ awọn oṣere ọdọ ati awọn apẹẹrẹ lati ṣe ifowosowopo pẹlu awọn ti o tọju awọn aṣa atijọ.
About the Àmì-ẹ̀yẹ Fàdákà A' Design Award
Daxi Daxi Ajọdun Aṣa Agbegbe jẹ́ olùborí Àmì-ẹ̀yẹ Fàdákà A' Design Award, ìdánimọ̀ onípọ̀nlé lọ́nà àrà ọ̀tọ̀ tí a fún àwọn àwòṣe ìpele gíga jùlọ tó dára tó sì ń kan ọkàn. Àwọn olùborí Fàdákà jẹ́ àwọn iṣẹ́ tó ń tàn yòò gidigidi tó sì ní ìṣẹ̀dá púpọ̀ tí wọ́n ń ṣàfihàn ìmọ̀ ìjìnlẹ̀, ẹ̀bùn àti ìmọ̀ràn àwọn olùṣàwòṣe wọn. A retí pé Daxi Daxi Ajọdun Aṣa Agbegbe yóò jẹ́ iṣẹ́ àgbàyanu, àpẹẹrẹ rere, ti ọ̀jáfáfá lọ́nà tó ṣe pàtàkì tó sì ní ìmúṣẹ̀dá tuntun jinlẹ̀. Àwòṣe tó borí Àmì-ẹ̀yẹ Fàdákà A' Design Award yìí jẹ́ ohun ìmúṣẹ̀dá tó hàn gbangba gidigidi tí a mọrírì tó ń ṣe anfàní tó sì ń tì ààlà iṣẹ́ ọnà, sáyẹ́ǹsì, àwòṣe àti ìmọ̀-ẹ̀rọ síwájú. Daxi Daxi Ajọdun Aṣa Agbegbe jẹ́ ẹ̀dá tí ọ̀pọ̀lọpọ̀ ń ṣe ìlara, tó ń jí ìfẹ́ inú, tó ń mú ìmọ̀lára rere wá tó sì ń jí ìyàlẹ́nu àti ìyanu.
Press Kit
- Unique Properties
- Lord Guan's birthday celebration is an important traditional event held in the rural outskirts of Taipei. The local people call it "the second Chinese New Year for Daxi," and everyone in the township of Daxi uses to put significant effort into the preparations. Tasked to preserve and promote the event, since 2018, BIAS has developed and implemented an urban festival to help the township preparing for the celebration. The festival has been named "Daxi Daxi," i.e., a play of words that means "Good Luck Daxi." In particular, in 2020, the third installment of "Daxi Daxi," the "Lord Guan Online" concept was implemented, i.e., a creative offline and online approach that 'allows the god's blessings to spread far away' through the new media. This festival strengthened the local community's identity, but the last installment attracted more than 100,000 people to the township. Besides this, an exhibition focused on the "backstage" of the religious event and a show mixing modern and traditional arts were implemented. By this, BIAS hopes that the traditional culture can intertwine with the urban one and, thanks to this, get enough momentum to be preserved for the future.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Total event area: 121,000 sqm
- Tags
- festival, traditional rural culture, urban pop culture, religion, parade, design as mediation, curating
- Production Technology
- The main concept of Daxi Daxi is to combine traditions and pop culture so as to both rejuvenate the audience of Taiwanese religious festivals and deepen the understanding of these by the young generations. In order to achieve this, a curatorial approach was adopted, focused on selecting a series of young artists and designers that could cooperate with those holding the traditions. Most importantly, the artists, designers, and the holders of traditions were supported by BIAS that mediated their cooperation so as to ease their efforts and bring it to a good end. That is to say, BIAS initiated their encounter and acted as a facilitator and translator of their different point of view.
- Design Challenge
- The key challenge of the project was at the curatorial level. In particular, it was the selection of third-party artists and designers that could dialogue with those today bringing forward the ancient traditions. Not only but also, it was to create proper occasions for the encounter of these seemingly opposite actors.
- Research
- The research was developed on various aspects, including the following. First of all, it was developed a deep understanding of ancient rituals and those people that carry on the traditions today. Then, it was developed curatorial research on a set of artists and designers that could develop a dialogue and thus intervene in the strategic renewal of traditions. Finally, mediatory research was implemented in order to help the community and the designers collaborate for the good end.
- Inspiration
- Usually, Taiwanese religious ceremonies are conservative and based on rural traditions that strictly dictate parade rules. To share the charm of the folk beliefs with the urban public, BIAS tried to mediate the ancient traditions by a strategic set of design interventions and educational activities that could provide a contemporary pop culture vibe to the festival.
- Project Duration
- The event starts in mid-July and finishes in mid-August each year since 2018 in Daxi, Taiwan. The last installment was held in 2020.
- Operation Flow
- The key aspects of the festival are to be found in the mixing of various aspects of the traditional parade rules and preparations with popo-culture and aesthetics. In particular, while the traditional aspects were not obliterated or negated in their functionality, touches of a new aesthetics were added and communicated to the large public as the product of a new pride of the local community.
- Image Credits
- Image #1: Photographer Yu Dong, 2019
Image #2: Photographer Yu Dong, 2020
Image #3: Photographer Jia-Ying Yang, 2019
Image #4: Photographer Yu Dong, 2018
Image #5: Photographer Jia-Ying Yang, 2018
