Industrial changes usually begin from a flash of inspiration. Since 2011, Brain Magazine has held creativity forum activities and exhibitions around Taiwan in an effort to sow the seeds of creativity.
Taiwan News
Date: 2017/09/12
By: Brain Wu (Wu Chin-sheng), Brain Magazine publisher,Taiwan News, Contributing Writer
Industrial changes usually begin from a flash of inspiration. Since 2011, Brain
Industrial changes usually begin from a flash of inspiration. (photo credit of creator: Nick Youngson – link to – http://nyphotographic.com/
Magazine and Taiwan Amoeba Design Association (TADA) have held creativity forum activities and exhibitions around Taiwan, bringing events to Tainan, Hsinchu, Pingtung and Yilan as well as the offshore islands of Kinmen and Penghu, in an effort to sow the seeds of creativity. It is hoped that the seeds will grow into flourishing plants.
Creativity f8orums sow seeds in rich soil
At the end of February 2012, while I was in discussions with the National Hsinchu Living Arts Center to set up an exhibition there, I received a call from Penghu Tourism Department director Chang Jui-tung, who was calling on behalf of Penghu Rotary International president Chen Chang-ming, to invite us to hold a “Penghu creativity forum.”
At first, preparations for the event came to mind and I brought them up in the conversation. At the other end of the line he instantly promised me everything, and in less than one minute, the Penghu creativity forum was a done deal. On the day of the forum, the audience packed the auditorium and spilled into the hallway, and their enthusiasm provided the momentum that saw a series of creativity forums being held around the country. All began from that one-minute talk.
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