Modular Design workshop with Alei Verspoor at NCKU
Tainan, Taiwan, December 2, 2016
National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) C-Hub designers and students teamed up with Dutch designer Alei Verspoor in a workshop to design modular bags. The results were presented on December 2nd at the C-Hub building with a mini fashion show.
Modular design is the specialty of Alei Verspoor, who set up the brand ‘Pack’, with various textile products designed in modules. Modular designs foresee in the option to easily disassemble a product in separate materials.
Benefits from this are easy customizing, easy repairing and easy recyclability. But Alei Verspoor is also exploring the opportunity to co-design one modular bag with various designers. Different designers can design one part, from handles, back straps, wheels and other modules that can easily be added and replaced.
Co-design creates co-ownership with collective branding, marketing and branding, but also the freedom of the user to modify a bag totally to his or her likings. This innovative concept relates to circular economy and social design.
A visit was made to Hualien to collaborate with traditional crafts from the Truku tribe and Kbalan tribe. Weaver expert Tumun Masaw (馬邵都姆) taught her expertise on weaving a local spiky rotan into bags.
The Kbalan have a unique tradition of weaving banana tree fibers into a textile, this was learned at Lala Ban (新社香蕉絲工坊). C-Hub designer Himi Chang from QIZHI 噐質 seeks collaboration with these crafts from bio-materials.
In the workshop 15 NCKU students participated mostly from the Institute of Creative Industries Design (ICID) and Creativity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center (CIE). Each of them designed modular bags with recyclable materials or bio-materials.
The mini fashion show was to test the bags on esthetics, wear-ability and strength. Alei Verspoor is works with C-Hub and NCKU through a collaboration from the Taiwan Dutch Design Post.
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National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) C-Hub designers and students teamed up with Dutch designer Alei Verspoor in a workshop to design modular bags. The results were presented on December 2nd at the C-Hub building with a mini fashion show.
Modular design is the specialty of Alei Verspoor, who set up the brand ‘Pack’, with various textile products designed in modules. Modular designs foresee in the option to easily disassemble a product in separate materials.
Benefits from this are easy customizing, easy repairing and easy recyclability. But Alei Verspoor is also exploring the opportunity to co-design one modular bag with various designers. Different designers can design one part, from handles, back straps, wheels and other modules that can easily be added and replaced.
Co-design creates co-ownership with collective branding, marketing and branding, but also the freedom of the user to modify a bag totally to his or her likings. This innovative concept relates to circular economy and social design.
A visit was made to Hualien to collaborate with traditional crafts from the Truku tribe and Kbalan tribe. Weaver expert Tumun Masaw (馬邵都姆) taught her expertise on weaving a local spiky rotan into bags.
The Kbalan have a unique tradition of weaving banana tree fibers into a textile, this was learned at Lala Ban (新社香蕉絲工坊). C-Hub designer Himi Chang from QIZHI 噐質 seeks collaboration with these crafts from bio-materials.
In the workshop 15 NCKU students participated mostly from the Institute of Creative Industries Design (ICID) and Creativity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center (CIE). Each of them designed modular bags with recyclable materials or bio-materials.
The mini fashion show was to test the bags on esthetics, wear-ability and strength. Alei Verspoor is works with C-Hub and NCKU through a collaboration from the Taiwan Dutch Design Post.
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