Ming Chuan University

Subverting conventional narratives

Lin Meng-Ru, Ma Yi-Hsuan, Chi Szu-Yu and Wu Chieh-Ling are students in the Department of Commercial Design at Ming Chuan University in Taipei, Taiwan. The famous, internationally acclaimed private university currently has around 21,000 enrolled students. In the Department of Commercial Design, the teaching and research focus is on the integration of humanities, aesthetics and technology, as well as on forging connections between education and industry. Largely independent projects are also promoted, as is demonstrated by this award-winning project.

Red Dot about Lin Meng-Ru, Ma Yi-Hsuan, Chi Szu-Yu and Wu Chieh-Ling

The most important thing at the moment, we believe, is to innovate both our heritage and our future.

Lin Meng-Ru, Ma Yi-Hsuan, Wu Chieh-Ling, Chi Szu-Yu

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18,000

Students as of

14

Distinctions in the Red Dot Award

1957

Year of foundation

Awarded in

Winning projects 2023

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Despotism

Using illustrations and a picture book format, "DESPOTISM" draws on conventional approaches to the telling of fairy tales, as they are handed down in Taiwan. The traditional look clashes with the themes of dictatorship and despotism in order to sensitise people, particularly the younger generation, to these issues.

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