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About Jia-Chi Wu
Refugium: a Social Engagement about Refugee Issues Migrant: a Journey of Flying Campus of the Future 2037, Imperial College Interface Design for CJD Media Tables Interface Design for TBK Media Tables Posters Graphic Design Works Watercolour Paintings Drawings
Curriculum Vitae, Jia-Chi Wu
Jia-Chi Wu
Contact Information jcw.louty@gmail.com +86 156-2490-1011
Employment
Recognition
Exhibition/Graphic Design
ACADEMIC AWARDS
Aug 2017 - Sep 2017, Placement DUNCAN MCCAULEY, Berlin, Germany
MA with Distinction 2016-2018, CSM-UAL
Exhibition/Installation Manager
Academic Excellence Award 2009, 2010, NTNU
Oct 2013 - Aug 2016 MoNTUE, Museum of National Taipei University of Education, Taipei, Taiwan
Academic Excellence Award 2003, 2004, 2005, NTU
Project Manager Aug 2012 - Aug 2013 Ministry of Education: Arts and Life Education Resource Centre, Taipei, Taiwan Alternative Military Service - Graphic Designer Sep 2011 - Aug 2012 Academia Historica (a.k.a. the Presidential and Vice-Presidential Artifacts Museum), Taipei, Taiwan
Education Central Saint Martins - University of the Arts London Sep 2016 - July 2018 M.A. in Narrative Environments Degree project: Refugium – A creative social engagement about refugees and asylum seekers in need of accommodation in the U.K. National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU) Sep 2008 - Jun 2011 M.F.A. Dept. of Fine Arts, Art Directing Master's thesis: Theatre on Poster: A Study on Theatrical Poster Design for Shakespeare’s Plays
POSTER DESIGN AWARDS 2011 Best 100 Project Sunshine for Japan: International Poster Exhibition/Competition, Düsseldorf, Germany 2010 Selected The 9th Golden Bee-Moscow International Biennale of Graphic Design 2010 Selected The 11th International Poster Biennial Mexico 2009 Bronze Prize Gaze through the Centuries: Student Poster Design of Taiwan Indigenous People, Taipei, Taiwan
Curriculum Vitae, Jia-Chi Wu
Born in Taiwan, and trained as a theatre costume and graphic designer initially, Jia-Chi Wu has worked as a project/installation manager in the museum. He is fascinated by “Museatre”– a hybrid of museum and theatre – which enables him to communicate with people through interdisciplinary approaches. Recently, received his second MA in Narrative Environments from Central Saint Martins - University of the Arts London, he aims to embrace immense opportunities, and looks forward to all possibilities to explore and extend his practices, ahead.
Museum Experiences
Theatre Experiences
2018 Curator Content/concept development, spatial design and installation
2013 Costume Design Assistant Playscript research and analysis
Digital Costume Design of Sunlight after Snowfall 2014 Exhibition Designer Concept and spatial design and installation ArtistsAtayal Weavers of Taiwan 2014, 2015, 2016 Project Manager Exhibition coordination and overseeing design and installation The 12th, 13th, 14th Taishin Arts Award Exhibition Curator, Mun-Lee Lin 2016 Installation Manager Overseeing exhibition design and installation No No Sleep: Tsai Ming-Liang’s Solo Exhibition Curator, Ming-Liang Tsai 2015 Installation Manager Overseeing exhibition design and installation L’OUVRE 9: the Louvre and Comics (Le Louvre et la bande dessinée) Curator, Fabrice Douar 2014 Installation Manager Overseeing exhibition design and installation Stray Dogs at the Museum: Tsai Ming-Liang’s Solo Exhibition Curator, Ming-Liang Tsai and Mun-Lee Lin
Other People’s Money Written by Jerry Sterner Directed by Daniel S. P. Yang Costume design by Yi-Meei Wang Godot Theatre Company Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hall, Taipei, Taiwan 2010 Costume Design Assistant Playscript research and analysis Tuesday with Morrie Written by Jeffrey Hatcher and Mitch Albom Directed by Daniel S. P. Yang Costume design by Yi-Meei Wang Godot Theatre Company Metropolitan Hall, Taipei, Taiwan 2009 Costume Design I Am My Own Wife Written by Doug Wright Directed by Cheng-Han Wu Ren-Shin Theatre Group Crown Theater, Taipei, Taiwan 2007 Costume Design Thieves’ Carnival Written by Jean Anouilh Directed by Kai-Hsiang Tu Senior production of NTU Dept. Drama and Theatre class 2007 NTU Theatre, Taipei, Taiwan
Graphic Design
It’s only when you live with somebody and you share space, stories, evenings and meals with them that it becomes real what is happening and why people are having to flee
— Kitty, a refugee host
Refugium:
A Social Engagement about Refugee Issues Refugium is a pop-up event set up as a ‘property viewing’ that aims to raise public awareness of refugees in need of accommodation, security, and belonging as they integrate themselves into a new society and rebuild their lives in the U.K. It is not intended to be an actual matching service, but to explore the willingness of visitors to consider hosting refugees and to have a better understanding of these issues. The ‘viewing’ engages visitors who are interested in the plight of refugees by having them read stories about hosting. These stories are embedded in different forms of media placed around the communal space of a flat. During the ‘viewing,’ visitors think through their concerns, imagine what it might be like to host refugees in their home, provide commentary in their paper tent ‘host profile,’ and leave as potential hosts.
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The visitor journey takes place as a property viewing experience with stories about hosting placed around the living room and other communal spaces
The Visitor’s Journey As seen in the matrices, the visitor journey demonstrates how all the elements work together through space and time. The ‘viewing’ itself consists of visitors arranging/booking a viewing, being guided by an agent, reading the stories, thinking through the questions posed, collecting colour triangles, writing down their responses, assembling and pasting them, building a ‘roof ’ by placing the paper tent on top of the installation house, asking further questions if interested, and finally leaving as potential hosts.
Booking
Refugium: Book Your Viewing Refugium is a pop-up event set up as a ‘property viewing’ that engages visitors in their interests and concerns about hosting refugees. Through the 'viewing' experience, visitors will learn more about hosting, and hopefully will leave more willing to take meaningful action as a result. If you are interested in the plight of refugees, please consider booking a 'viewing'. It would be fantastic if you could bring others with you. Light refreshments will be provided. Thank you very much!
1. What's your name?
2. Will you be bringing any guests to the viewing and how many?
3. When would you like to schedule your viewing?
4. How can we contact you?
Being guided
Arranging a viewing through an online booking system and arriving at the venue at the designated time; Being guided by an agent to explore stories in various reading material, which is placed in the communal space of a flat.
What impressions do you make on others?
Encounter:
Life is full of encounters. Can anyone be really prepared for the unexpected? What does your mind say to you at the moment? In the stories, the two hosts and their eventual refugee guests, share their own mixed feelings—worries, insecurities, anticipations, and uncertainties—surrounding their first meetings and impressions.
impressions
Thinking of the question unveiled by the stories under each topic; collecting a colour triangle from each model house and writing down their thoughts on the triangle.
What might interest you doing together with your refugee guest?
Connect:
Spending time together is always the best way to get to know each other better. The three stories here depict how hosts and refugee guests open up to each other by doing things that interest them both, such as watching football games, drinking tea, and reading. At the moment that they connect, they find something in common.
interests
Thinking of the question unveiled by the stories under each topic; collecting a colour triangle from each model house and writing down their thoughts on the triangle.
Do you have any special circumstances or rules that your guest should know?
Relate:
'An Englishman's home is his castle.' These hosts have decided to open their homes to welcome refugee guests. Even though they might have initially set up some rules in the beginning, they end up changing, even breaking them, as roles evolved through time. Beyond hosting and being guests, they have become friends, brothers and sisters, and even parents!
roles
Thinking of the question unveiled by the stories under each topic; collecting a colour triangle from each model house and writing down their thoughts on the triangle.
What special skills or volunteer experiences do you have?
Impact:
The seemingly little difference we make for people might actually bring tremendous change in them and even in us too. The two hosts’ stories below tell us about their experiences of hosting refugees and using the skills they have to empower them. Unexpectedly, the tiny differences they make bring mutual benefit and great impact.
experiences
Thinking of the question unveiled by the stories under each topic; collecting a colour triangle from each model house and writing down their thoughts on the triangle.
If you have a spare room, would you consider hosting a refugee? How long could you offer to host?
Host:
It is perhaps a good time that we think again about who we are, what we can do, the definition of home, and what makes up a home. Here, two host families take in refugee guests who have different religions from them, but they turn out to be perfect matches.
possibilities
Thinking of the question unveiled by the stories under each topic; collecting a colour triangle from each model house and writing down their thoughts on the triangle.
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The paper tent roof is an individual visitor’s host profile, which consists of five triangles pasted on it with specific questions and their thoughts. These profiles are placed above an installation house, and the act of ‘building’ the house reflects their contribution to the issue.
Leaving
Building a ‘roof’ by folding the paper tent in half and placing it above an installation house. Asking further questions about how to officially register to be a host, if interested; Leaving as a potential host!
Mindgrant:
A Journey of Flying Our research and analysis has shown that the park could be a unique place to treat depression and anxiety, either from London and surrounding groups to its local community, reason why we are working to develop this brand. We would like to develop events around wellbeing and to host corporate event and overnight company retreats, while collaborating in make them to understand the importance of this park and its wildlife. So our target is to formalise and provide a package to NHS and ocal health organisations to use the space of Elmley with this purpose. Our target audience therefore will be NHS and other organisations that cooperate with depression treatment, and will include from Isle of Sheppey’s local community to a wider range of audiences, taking into account that the island is, besides, just one hour by train from London.
title Elmley: Well-being what Branding | in 2016 for Elmley: National Nature Reserve what flyer | size 29.7 x 42 cm
title Flying Minds what Poster | in 2016 for Elmley: NHS Well-being size 70 x 100 cm
ARUP: Campus of the Future 2037 Imperial College
Imperial College London’s 2037 campus is a sleek, intensive facility, with the prime purpose of encouraging peer-to-peer interaction, multidisciplinary work and student exposure to partners and audiences from outside the university. We integrated the above ideas into our design by aiming to make a campus that incubates student ‘cross-pollination’ - but we interpreted this creatively by creating a campus that is under the guise of being a progressive haven for pursuing one’s passions, while in actual fact being harshly controlling. We identified a conflict in the form of accessibility and getting from one place to another, inspired by early site visits where we witnessed the barriers of a wide motorway and railway line. The prescription of a campus that blended disciplines and maximised peer collaboration but consisted of dispersed hubs heightened this specific conflict. Our storyboard exemplifies how the campus’s structure controls those within it, placing competing students in adjacent, transparent rooms, throwing them together in various collaborative spaces and encouraging rivalry for public attention in the Project Market. We also witness selectivity; certain areas are inaccessible to the public, and within this space certain areas are inaccessible to particular students, creating the tension of a value system. However, our storyboard also demonstrates how such controlling elements can be challenged, both physically and ideologically; the spaces used in alternative ways.
title Campus of the Future 2037: Imperial College what Illustration Overview | in 2017 for ARUP size 100 x 70 cm
ARUP: Campus of the Future 2037 Imperial College
title Campus of the Future 2037: Imperial College what Illustration in Details | in 2017 for ARUP size 10 x 10 cm
title CJD: Interactive Media Table what Interface Design | in 2017 for CJD
title TBK: Interactive Media Table what Interface Design | in 2017 for TBK
title Faces what Seires Poster | in 2009 for Shung Ye Museum of Formosan Aborigines size 70 x 100 cm
Bronze Prize, Gaze through the Centuries: Student Poster Design of Taiwan Indigenous People, Taipei, Taiwan
title Bio-Kaleidoscope what Poster | in 2010 for COP 10 size 70 x 100 cm
Selected, the 11th International Poster Biennial Mexico Biological Diversity: COP 10, Nagoya, Taipei and Seoul
title A Thousand Winds what Poster | in 2011 for Project Sunshine for Japan size 70 x 100 cm
Best 100, Project Sunshine for Japan: International Poster Exhibition/Competition, DĂźsseldorf, Germany
title Don't Eat, Don't Kill
title Water is Life
what Poster | in 2010
what Poster | in 2010
size 70 x 100 cm
size 118 x 76 cm
Finalist, Restore: Taiwan International Student Design Competition
title Global Eyes on America
title Welcome poster for Project Review
what Poster | in 2012
what Poster | in 2012
for Academia Historica
for Academia Historica
size 59.4 x 84.1 cm
size 59.4 x 84.1 cm
title History and Movie on Eileen Chang what Poster | in 2012 for Academia Historica size 59.4 x 84.1 cm
title Voices of Nature what Poster | in 2018 for NTU Chorus summer concert size 59.4 x 84.1 cm
what flyer | size 10.5 x 21 cm
title DREAM what Poster | in 2015 for NTU Chorus winter concert size 59.4 x 84.1 cm
what flyer | size 12 x 21 cm
title Water Night what Poster | in 2012 for NTU Chorus summer concert size 59.4 x 84.1 cm
what flyer | size 10.5 x 21 cm
title Spirit what Poster | in 2010 for NTU Chorus winter concert size 59.4 x 84.1 cm what flyer | size 10 x 26 cm
Selected, the 9th Golden Bee-Moscow International Biennale of Graphic Design
title Meandering
title Tell Me the Stories
what Poster | in 2009
what Poster | in 2012
for NTU Chorus summer concert
for NTU Chorus winter concert
size 59.4 x 84.1 cm
size 59.4 x 84.1 cm
title May You Go Forth in Love what Poster | in 2014 for NTU Chorus summer concert size 59.4 x 84.1 cm
title Humming in the Field what flyer | in 2011 for NTU Chorus winter concert size 21 x 10.5 cm
title Humming in the Field what flyer | in 2014 for NTU Chorus winter concert size 12 x 21 cm
title Swing with Childhood what flyer | in 2009 for NTU Chorus winter concert size 21 x 9.7 cm
title Celebration: 50th Anniversary Concert what Visual design | in 2013 for NTU Chorus 50th anniversary concert
what Watercolour masterpieces imitation in 2012-2013 | size 27.2 x 19.6 cm
title Lily Pond in Sunday Afternoon
title Farmhouse
what Watercolour | in 2013
what Watercolour | in 2012
size 27.2 x 19.6 cm
size 27.2 x 19.6 cm
title After Raining what Watercolour | in 2013 size 27.2 x 19.6 cm
title Venus
title Chopin
what Sketch | in 2013
what Sketch | in 2013
size 21 x 29.7 cm
size 21 x 29.7 cm
title Female what Sketch | in 2013 size 21 x 29.7 cm
Designed by Jia-Chi Wu, 2019