NCKU students travel to Netherlands for Dutch Design Summer Internship - CNA
A total of ten students from the College of Planning and Design at National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Tainan, Taiwan, traveled to the Netherlands this summer from July to September for internship to work with local Dutch designers.
Among them, six headed to Amsterdam to work at Metabolic, Mediamatic, and Pilotfish, and four headed to Eindhoven to work at PeliDesign, Gerard Jasperse and Teun Fleskens, according to Bart van Bueren who initiated this program with Prof. Yi Sheng Goh to foster sustainable collaboration between NCKU and Dutch design industries.
This program is part of the larger Pilot Overseas Internship Program sponsored by the Ministry of Education in Taiwan.
Bart said, to do internship program in Netherlands is a smart choice. With the Dutch Design Post (DDP), we have lots of Dutch designers coming here to Taiwan. The collaboration is so good that we have friends in the Netherlands.
About 25 students applied for the internship and we took only 10 of them to the Netherlands, he added.
“I’m very proud of this program,” said Bart, “It’s really something as a foreign faculty that I could do and the Taiwanese teachers would not be able to do in the same way, all the connections and much easier way to communicate to know the Dutch problems the Taiwanese would have.”
Penny Wu, a graduate student from the Institute of Creative Industry Design, who has a passion in design proudly said, “I did some sketches of chairs with designers in PeliDesign.”
“I also learned a lot of business models as an intern in PeliDesign and Teun Fleskens. People I work with are so encouraging and supportive for new ideas,” said Penny.
Ruby Lee from the Department of Industrial Design is interested in programming, data visualization and interactive design and she had two-month internship with Mediamatic.
My job there is helping the designers to show their work in the city, said Ruby, which involves a lot of negotiation and communication.
She also said, “Because of the job, I pedal around in Amsterdam taking photos every day and as a result I learn the city’s cycle routes very well.”
Talking about the most interesting experience that she had with the company, she said, “I even help with building a pizza oven in the office just because they’d like to have pizza there.”
Based on her observation, Ruby said that in Mediamatic, the designers cooperated with the local government are able to do a lot of experimental projects and in this way the society and design will make progress.
Penny also claimed, “The best part about the internship is that I met a lot of people in the Netherlands, having good connection with the locals.”
According to Bart, Four of the companies where the students work are going to come to Taiwan again soon so the collaboration continues.
Among them, six headed to Amsterdam to work at Metabolic, Mediamatic, and Pilotfish, and four headed to Eindhoven to work at PeliDesign, Gerard Jasperse and Teun Fleskens, according to Bart van Bueren who initiated this program with Prof. Yi Sheng Goh to foster sustainable collaboration between NCKU and Dutch design industries.
This program is part of the larger Pilot Overseas Internship Program sponsored by the Ministry of Education in Taiwan.
Bart said, to do internship program in Netherlands is a smart choice. With the Dutch Design Post (DDP), we have lots of Dutch designers coming here to Taiwan. The collaboration is so good that we have friends in the Netherlands.
About 25 students applied for the internship and we took only 10 of them to the Netherlands, he added.
“I’m very proud of this program,” said Bart, “It’s really something as a foreign faculty that I could do and the Taiwanese teachers would not be able to do in the same way, all the connections and much easier way to communicate to know the Dutch problems the Taiwanese would have.”
Penny Wu, a graduate student from the Institute of Creative Industry Design, who has a passion in design proudly said, “I did some sketches of chairs with designers in PeliDesign.”
“I also learned a lot of business models as an intern in PeliDesign and Teun Fleskens. People I work with are so encouraging and supportive for new ideas,” said Penny.
Ruby Lee from the Department of Industrial Design is interested in programming, data visualization and interactive design and she had two-month internship with Mediamatic.
My job there is helping the designers to show their work in the city, said Ruby, which involves a lot of negotiation and communication.
She also said, “Because of the job, I pedal around in Amsterdam taking photos every day and as a result I learn the city’s cycle routes very well.”
Talking about the most interesting experience that she had with the company, she said, “I even help with building a pizza oven in the office just because they’d like to have pizza there.”
Based on her observation, Ruby said that in Mediamatic, the designers cooperated with the local government are able to do a lot of experimental projects and in this way the society and design will make progress.
Penny also claimed, “The best part about the internship is that I met a lot of people in the Netherlands, having good connection with the locals.”
According to Bart, Four of the companies where the students work are going to come to Taiwan again soon so the collaboration continues.
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