BACK TO ORIGINAL : 2019 Hualien International Stone Workshop

BACK TO ORIGINAL : 2019 Hualien International Stone Workshop

BACK TO ORIGINAL : 2019 Hualien International Stone Workshop

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2019 was the year many stone industry enterprisers in Hualien passed the torch to the youngsters of their second or even third generations, who expressed eagerness for brand building and innovative design. “Back to Original” has been set as the start and end vision of the 2019 Hualien International Stone Workshop by the curator team HEY SHENG with this strong desire and need hence became the foundation and enabled to organize of the technical and design resources as well as bringing stone enterprises together to jointly establish an industry cluster. Combine the cultural technology with the particularity of emotional craft, which shows the superiority to make design sustainable. Discovers more diverse sides of stone materials by bringing emotions and warmth to crafts and designs.
The entire program puts cultural and technological strengths together and brings the focus back to the original values of the raw materials. Designers with experiences in mass production joined forces with stone manufacturers, utilizing the idea of “Micro Production” between customization and mass production and therefore taking Taiwan into a new “stone brand generation”. Taiwan's stone brands will be able to exhibit the width and depth of their energies, extend their design capacities, and promoting them to collaborate with diverse global industries in terms form a positive cycle for the industry chain.
All participants should be in strategic thinking. Both the industry with skillful techniques as well as industrial designers with mass production experiences had to start from diverse perspectives and, instead of completing single creative pieces, integrate their own professional manufacturing or designing ideas with Micro Production and come up with proposals that meet market demands. This is a brand new territory for the local stone industry and hence the theme of the 2019 Hualien International Stone Workshop, fully displaying the compounded potentials and values between the stone industry and brand designs in Taiwan. All participants made great strides via 4+1 steps in the workshop, and the Micro Production is the pathway leading to the program's outstanding results, and the indispensable players are the stone industry and industrial designers that have partnered up at the Workshop. The industry contributes manufacturing strengths and processing challenges, while the designers bring in observations, ideas, and inspirations. The power of design has been at full force throughout the entire program, from entering stone factories, searching the true nature of the stone materials with designers, to introducing designers' capacities in crafts, mass production, and technology at different processing stages to explore material characteristics. Based on micro-production, stone enterprises' foresight in markets and environmental protection, the strong supply chains provided by partnering manufacturers, and designers' expertise in customization and mass production, are all combined to showcase the stone industry's strengths and increase product values.

2019 was the year many stone industry enterprisers in Hualien passed the torch to the youngsters of their second or even third generations, who expressed eagerness for brand building and innovative design. “Back to Original” has been set as the start and end vision of the 2019 Hualien International Stone Workshop by the curator team HEY SHENG with this strong desire and need hence became the foundation and enabled to organize of the technical and design resources as well as bringing stone enterprises together to jointly establish an industry cluster. Combine the cultural technology with the particularity of emotional craft, which shows the superiority to make design sustainable. Discovers more diverse sides of stone materials by bringing emotions and warmth to crafts and designs.
The entire program puts cultural and technological strengths together and brings the focus back to the original values of the raw materials. Designers with experiences in mass production joined forces with stone manufacturers, utilizing the idea of “Micro Production” between customization and mass production and therefore taking Taiwan into a new “stone brand generation”. Taiwan's stone brands will be able to exhibit the width and depth of their energies, extend their design capacities, and promoting them to collaborate with diverse global industries in terms form a positive cycle for the industry chain.
All participants should be in strategic thinking. Both the industry with skillful techniques as well as industrial designers with mass production experiences had to start from diverse perspectives and, instead of completing single creative pieces, integrate their own professional manufacturing or designing ideas with Micro Production and come up with proposals that meet market demands. This is a brand new territory for the local stone industry and hence the theme of the 2019 Hualien International Stone Workshop, fully displaying the compounded potentials and values between the stone industry and brand designs in Taiwan. All participants made great strides via 4+1 steps in the workshop, and the Micro Production is the pathway leading to the program's outstanding results, and the indispensable players are the stone industry and industrial designers that have partnered up at the Workshop. The industry contributes manufacturing strengths and processing challenges, while the designers bring in observations, ideas, and inspirations. The power of design has been at full force throughout the entire program, from entering stone factories, searching the true nature of the stone materials with designers, to introducing designers' capacities in crafts, mass production, and technology at different processing stages to explore material characteristics. Based on micro-production, stone enterprises' foresight in markets and environmental protection, the strong supply chains provided by partnering manufacturers, and designers' expertise in customization and mass production, are all combined to showcase the stone industry's strengths and increase product values.

Being a supporter and facilitator of Taiwan’s stone Industry, the SRDC has begun organizing Hualien International Stone Workshop since 2016 to inspire new ideas and take on challenges but it also opens up new grounds for the stone industry. 2019 was the year many stone industry enterprisers in Hualien passed the torch to the youngsters of their second or even third generations, who expressed eagerness for brand building and innovative design.
“Back to Original” has been set as the start and end vision of the 2019 Hualien International Stone Workshop by the curator team HEY SHENG with this strong desire and need hence became the foundation and enabled to organize of the technical and design resources as well as bringing stone enterprises together to jointly establish an industry cluster. Combine the cultural technology with the particularity of emotional craft, which shows the superiority to make design sustainable. “Back to Original” discovers more diverse sides of stone materials by bringing emotions and warmth to crafts and designs.
The entire program put cultural and technological strengths together and brings focuses back to the original values of the raw materials. Designers with experiences in mass production joined forces with stone manufacturers, utilizing the idea of “Micro Production” between customization and mass production and therefore taking Taiwan into a new “stone brand generation”, and plays a lead role in the 2019 Hualien International Stone Workshop to prepare the stone industry and designers for large number of international orders, and promote them to collaborate with diverse global industries, such as architecture, interior design, and even galleries. Taiwan's stone brands will be able to exhibit the width and depth of their energies, extend their design capacities, and in term form a positive cycle for the industry chain.
All participants should be in strategic thinking. Both the industry with skillful techniques as well as industrial designers with mass production experiences had to start from diverse perspectives and, instead of completing single creative pieces, integrate their own professional manufacturing or designing ideas with Micro Production and come up with proposals that meet market demands. This is a brand new territory for the local stone industry and hence the theme of the 2019 Hualien International Stone Workshop, fully displaying the compounded potentials and values between the stone industry and brand designs in Taiwan. All participants made great strides via 4+1 steps in the workshop, and the Micro Production is the pathway leading to the program's outstanding results, and the indispensable players are the stone industry and industrial designers that have partnered up at the Workshop. The industry contributes manufacturing strengths and processing challenges, while the designers bring in observations, ideas, and inspirations. The power of design has been at full force throughout the entire program, from entering stone factories, searching the true nature of the stone materials with designers, to introducing designers' capacities in crafts, mass production, and technology at different processing stages to explore material characteristics. Based on micro-production, stone enterprises' foresight in markets and environmental protection, the strong supply chains provided by partnering manufacturers, and designers' expertise in customization and mass production, are all combined to showcase the stone industry's strengths and increase product values. Taiwan's stone brands and industrial designers partner up, achieving sustainability, design capacity, and economic strengths.

STEP 1 Communication
In the visits, stone enterprises explained various manufacturing methods as well as characteristics of different stones before showing how products are actually manufactured, while also giving designers complete physical senses of the stones. Already with thorough concepts and creative ideas before the workshop was launched, the team of designers got to participate constructively, observing and familiarizing with the advantages of the local stone processing as well as asking questions and confirming possibilities for manufacturing innovative designs. Meanwhile, the companies shared that the stone industry has gradually taken steps to take costs of the expendables and environmental protection into consideration for manufacturing, which became useful when designers adjusted their directions on their pieces.

STEP 2 Workshop
Designers went on a tour to the stone industry clustering for visiting including six stone enterprises and eight cooperation manufacturers, they are showing the competitive edges of these satellite manufacturers in Taiwan. During the entire workshop, they demonstrated a wide range of highly professional techniques respectively, including water jet cutting, stone product manufacturing, lathing (wet processing), molding, 5-axis CNC processing, etc. Designers got to familiarize themselves with all stones and manufacturing up close by learning to distinguish different materials and choose suitable ones as well as knowing first-hand all processing steps and tips. Therefore, they were able to determine needed materials and resources needed and also thoroughly assess the overall designs. The curator reminded all workshop participants to factor in manufacturing costs (for environmental protection) and adaptability (for mass production) in terms of micro-production.

STEP 3 League leaders
The primary objective of the 2019 Hualien International Stone Workshop is to establish a symbiotic partnership between the stone industry and designers. Via 2 tours displaying the local industry’s manufacturing capacity, the designers have had a deep understanding of the industry’s strengths, which became useful inputs in their creative processes.
The first is to build mutual trust. It began with stone enterprises, sharing their brand ideas and feature products. Along with the SRDC technicians, they explained both the current conditions and future trends of Taiwan’s stone market and industry from the points of design, manufacturing, and non-profit organizations. This has allowed designers to put their original ideas into perspective by making realistic evaluations and reaching out to potential manufacturers for future collaboration. Second, the designers got to introduce their ideas in a more creative and fun fashion by presenting 10 slides with 10 seconds each. Some even chose the unconventional way with vlogs of their daily lives to showcase their brands. Besides closing the distance between designers and manufacturers, it enabled the stone enterprises to find designers that align with brand values.
Accompanied by the curator and the SRDC directors, stone enterprises sat down and talked face-to-face with collaborating designers afterward. The discussion spanned from employing proper processing techniques, manufacturing feasibility, design strategies, and sales on the market. Designers were provided with solutions to their problems on manufacturing for their ideas, and the exchanges also served as a direct and effective channel between the design and manufacturing circles. During this stage, the curator also communicated with stone enterprises that desire to establish house brands, helping them find missions and directions of their own while facing challenges from existing designs. To show them how to maintain the cores and edges of house brands and look for the right partners to collaborate within the design as well.

STEP 4 Presentation of design concepts
After 3 visits to the industry, the designers finally presented the concepts of their projects for the first time on the last day of the workshop. In the presentation, each designer talked about the origins of their ideas and processing techniques to be undertaken, and the curator Vii Chen and the SRDC directors asked detailed questions to know more before offering advice for designers for further adjustments.
This is actually a great example of strategic partnership. As most designers had already decided what materials and processing techniques to choose during the 3 visits, the signals for potential collaboration were given to desired stone enterprises at the first presentations with slides and sketches. Therefore, designers were able to tune their proposals and find solutions for manufacturing problems with less time and more in-depth knowledge of the industry. On the other hand, stone enterprises learned whether they were able to carry out the proposed techniques.
Besides letting the stone enterprises and designers choose respective partners to work with, the entire presentation gave designers in the audience an opportunity to understand the industry’s needs when the enterprises exchanged their thoughts on the proposed ideas. Moreover, the industry got to learn more about the current market trends. It all became additional achievements of the 2019 Hualien International Stone Workshop.
On the next day, the SRDC and the curator Vii Chen asked both the stone enterprises and the designers who they would choose as partners in orders. Designers also began adjusting the piece sketches and making final changes based on the inputs from the enterprises.

STEP 4＋ Final presentation of the partnership
In the last chapter, the designers present their respective final proposals and then, arriving at an important milestone of the 2019 Hualien International Stone Workshop, be a partnership agreement.
It was high-pressure and fast-paced with all the processes, matching, announcement, and agreement signing. On this day, not only did everyone hang out with each other like family after interacting for 4 days, but the stone enterprises also changed their previous attitude towards designers from feeling unfamiliar to building trust.

After the workshop, besides the industry and designers' professional inputs, the Workshop serves as a venue that promotes participants' achievements to larger international markets. It strengthens the stone's features and values, the stone industry's manufacturing powers, and the design community's competitive edges by bringing all of the above Back to Original, and as a result, builds a new and sustainable design-centered economy for Taiwan's stone brands. Into the New Generation of Cultural Technology in Taiwan Stone Industry.

Being a supporter and facilitator of Taiwan’s stone Industry, the SRDC has begun organizing Hualien International Stone Workshop since 2016 to inspire new ideas and take on challenges but it also opens up new grounds for the stone industry. 2019 was the year many stone industry enterprisers in Hualien passed the torch to the youngsters of their second or even third generations, who expressed eagerness for brand building and innovative design.
“Back to Original” has been set as the start and end vision of the 2019 Hualien International Stone Workshop by the curator team HEY SHENG with this strong desire and need hence became the foundation and enabled to organize of the technical and design resources as well as bringing stone enterprises together to jointly establish an industry cluster. Combine the cultural technology with the particularity of emotional craft, which shows the superiority to make design sustainable. “Back to Original” discovers more diverse sides of stone materials by bringing emotions and warmth to crafts and designs.
The entire program put cultural and technological strengths together and brings focuses back to the original values of the raw materials. Designers with experiences in mass production joined forces with stone manufacturers, utilizing the idea of “Micro Production” between customization and mass production and therefore taking Taiwan into a new “stone brand generation”, and plays a lead role in the 2019 Hualien International Stone Workshop to prepare the stone industry and designers for large number of international orders, and promote them to collaborate with diverse global industries, such as architecture, interior design, and even galleries. Taiwan's stone brands will be able to exhibit the width and depth of their energies, extend their design capacities, and in term form a positive cycle for the industry chain.
All participants should be in strategic thinking. Both the industry with skillful techniques as well as industrial designers with mass production experiences had to start from diverse perspectives and, instead of completing single creative pieces, integrate their own professional manufacturing or designing ideas with Micro Production and come up with proposals that meet market demands. This is a brand new territory for the local stone industry and hence the theme of the 2019 Hualien International Stone Workshop, fully displaying the compounded potentials and values between the stone industry and brand designs in Taiwan. All participants made great strides via 4+1 steps in the workshop, and the Micro Production is the pathway leading to the program's outstanding results, and the indispensable players are the stone industry and industrial designers that have partnered up at the Workshop. The industry contributes manufacturing strengths and processing challenges, while the designers bring in observations, ideas, and inspirations. The power of design has been at full force throughout the entire program, from entering stone factories, searching the true nature of the stone materials with designers, to introducing designers' capacities in crafts, mass production, and technology at different processing stages to explore material characteristics. Based on micro-production, stone enterprises' foresight in markets and environmental protection, the strong supply chains provided by partnering manufacturers, and designers' expertise in customization and mass production, are all combined to showcase the stone industry's strengths and increase product values. Taiwan's stone brands and industrial designers partner up, achieving sustainability, design capacity, and economic strengths.

STEP 1 Communication
In the visits, stone enterprises explained various manufacturing methods as well as characteristics of different stones before showing how products are actually manufactured, while also giving designers complete physical senses of the stones. Already with thorough concepts and creative ideas before the workshop was launched, the team of designers got to participate constructively, observing and familiarizing with the advantages of the local stone processing as well as asking questions and confirming possibilities for manufacturing innovative designs. Meanwhile, the companies shared that the stone industry has gradually taken steps to take costs of the expendables and environmental protection into consideration for manufacturing, which became useful when designers adjusted their directions on their pieces.

STEP 2 Workshop
Designers went on a tour to the stone industry clustering for visiting including six stone enterprises and eight cooperation manufacturers, they are showing the competitive edges of these satellite manufacturers in Taiwan. During the entire workshop, they demonstrated a wide range of highly professional techniques respectively, including water jet cutting, stone product manufacturing, lathing (wet processing), molding, 5-axis CNC processing, etc. Designers got to familiarize themselves with all stones and manufacturing up close by learning to distinguish different materials and choose suitable ones as well as knowing first-hand all processing steps and tips. Therefore, they were able to determine needed materials and resources needed and also thoroughly assess the overall designs. The curator reminded all workshop participants to factor in manufacturing costs (for environmental protection) and adaptability (for mass production) in terms of micro-production.

STEP 3 League leaders
The primary objective of the 2019 Hualien International Stone Workshop is to establish a symbiotic partnership between the stone industry and designers. Via 2 tours displaying the local industry’s manufacturing capacity, the designers have had a deep understanding of the industry’s strengths, which became useful inputs in their creative processes.
The first is to build mutual trust. It began with stone enterprises, sharing their brand ideas and feature products. Along with the SRDC technicians, they explained both the current conditions and future trends of Taiwan’s stone market and industry from the points of design, manufacturing, and non-profit organizations. This has allowed designers to put their original ideas into perspective by making realistic evaluations and reaching out to potential manufacturers for future collaboration. Second, the designers got to introduce their ideas in a more creative and fun fashion by presenting 10 slides with 10 seconds each. Some even chose the unconventional way with vlogs of their daily lives to showcase their brands. Besides closing the distance between designers and manufacturers, it enabled the stone enterprises to find designers that align with brand values.
Accompanied by the curator and the SRDC directors, stone enterprises sat down and talked face-to-face with collaborating designers afterward. The discussion spanned from employing proper processing techniques, manufacturing feasibility, design strategies, and sales on the market. Designers were provided with solutions to their problems on manufacturing for their ideas, and the exchanges also served as a direct and effective channel between the design and manufacturing circles. During this stage, the curator also communicated with stone enterprises that desire to establish house brands, helping them find missions and directions of their own while facing challenges from existing designs. To show them how to maintain the cores and edges of house brands and look for the right partners to collaborate within the design as well.

STEP 4 Presentation of design concepts
After 3 visits to the industry, the designers finally presented the concepts of their projects for the first time on the last day of the workshop. In the presentation, each designer talked about the origins of their ideas and processing techniques to be undertaken, and the curator Vii Chen and the SRDC directors asked detailed questions to know more before offering advice for designers for further adjustments.
This is actually a great example of strategic partnership. As most designers had already decided what materials and processing techniques to choose during the 3 visits, the signals for potential collaboration were given to desired stone enterprises at the first presentations with slides and sketches. Therefore, designers were able to tune their proposals and find solutions for manufacturing problems with less time and more in-depth knowledge of the industry. On the other hand, stone enterprises learned whether they were able to carry out the proposed techniques.
Besides letting the stone enterprises and designers choose respective partners to work with, the entire presentation gave designers in the audience an opportunity to understand the industry’s needs when the enterprises exchanged their thoughts on the proposed ideas. Moreover, the industry got to learn more about the current market trends. It all became additional achievements of the 2019 Hualien International Stone Workshop.
On the next day, the SRDC and the curator Vii Chen asked both the stone enterprises and the designers who they would choose as partners in orders. Designers also began adjusting the piece sketches and making final changes based on the inputs from the enterprises.

STEP 4＋ Final presentation of the partnership
In the last chapter, the designers present their respective final proposals and then, arriving at an important milestone of the 2019 Hualien International Stone Workshop, be a partnership agreement.
It was high-pressure and fast-paced with all the processes, matching, announcement, and agreement signing. On this day, not only did everyone hang out with each other like family after interacting for 4 days, but the stone enterprises also changed their previous attitude towards designers from feeling unfamiliar to building trust.

After the workshop, besides the industry and designers' professional inputs, the Workshop serves as a venue that promotes participants' achievements to larger international markets. It strengthens the stone's features and values, the stone industry's manufacturing powers, and the design community's competitive edges by bringing all of the above Back to Original, and as a result, builds a new and sustainable design-centered economy for Taiwan's stone brands. Into the New Generation of Cultural Technology in Taiwan Stone Industry.