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TAIPEI, Dec. 1,2020/PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/--

To Taiwan and Japan, which are both island regions, and Turkey that has just

been hit by a severe earthquake, disaster prevention has always been an

important and highly regarded issue. Both Taiwan and Japan have extensive

experience and professional know-hows in the area of disaster prevention, but

the public still finds disaster prevention knowledge difficult and hard to

understand. "Although disaster prevention is an important issue, a prevailing

problem is that 'its communication is difficult,'" said Vice Director Hirokazu

Nagada of Design and Creative Center Kobe (KIITO).

For the full multimedia release, click here:

https://en.prnasia.com/mnr/TDRI_KIITO_202011.shtml

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Thus, Taiwan Design Research Institute (TDRI) and KIITO have launched an

international cooperation, where TDRI leads eleven teams, New Taipei City

Government, disaster prevention education agencies, and Japanese advisors, for

joint research and design development. The teams have developed promotion

solutions of five emergency kits for fire, earthquake, flood…etc., and eight

experiential disaster prevention teaching aids based on the concept of

experiential learning of disaster prevention knowledge.

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For the emergency kits, interdisciplinary collaborations between Japanese

fashion brand, major Taiwanese distributor of daily supplies, and design

companies, have developed five designs, including MUJI Taiwan x Matinal Design

and AGUA Design, Tzu Chi Foundation x S. Select Lab and LAJOS, Xiaobei Grocery

Store x DHH Studio; in addition to designing the physical packaging, the teams

have compiled and promoted related disaster prevention knowledge through

design, making these kits the best learning aids of the public.

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All 53 MUJI stores in Taiwan have launched the emergency kits immediately, to

promote disaster prevention knowledge, and offered disaster prevention

pamphlets and simulation on its website for download. The emergency kit jointly

launched by Xiaobei and DHH Studio will be available with other products sold

at Xiaobei and a free disaster prevention knowledge manual in December at all

of Xiaobei's 113 stores. Taiwan's largest private disaster prevention

organization, Tzu Chi Foundation, has focused on incubation of disaster relief

volunteers in recent years, and S. Select Lab and LAJOS have jointly tailored

for the foundation an emergency kit and disaster prevention and relief

activities, helping the volunteers to forge strong bonds during promotion of

related knowledge through the power of design.

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Experiential disaster prevention teaching aids are voluntarily designed and

developed by six rising design teams in Taiwan: dosomething studio, STUDIO

COBY, Studio Shikai, A Step Design Studio, YEN Design, and Dot Design, making

this project the first social design action of Taiwanese designers. Starting

from the forum at the end of 2019, after nearly a year of learning,

co-creation, and sharing, designers have conceptualized on the more common

disasters in Taiwan—fire, flood, earthquake, drowning, and first-aid, and

developed board games, Jenga, and game of challenges so that the public can

learn professional disaster prevention knowledge through the games.

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The international collaboration between TDRI and KIITO launched nearly a year

ago first conducted a series of field studies, and then gathered domestic

designers to reference overseas cases and create disaster prevention solutions

suitable for Taiwan. TDRI and the designers hope to utilize flexible design

thinking to break existing frameworks and find solutions for social issues, and

use design to make difficult disaster prevention knowledge more approachable

and straightforward, to not only raise the society's awareness of disaster

prevention, but also export the collaborative design cases between Taiwan and

Japan to other countries in the future, making concrete contribution to

international disaster prevention.

SOURCE Taiwan Design Research Institute

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   Caption: Emergency kit designed by Xiaobei Grocery Store and DHH Studio

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   Caption: Tzu Chi Foundation cooperates with S. Select Lab to design an emergency kit

that can also promote disaster prevention knowledge

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   Caption: MUJI, Matinal Design, and AGUA Design, collaborate for emergency kit and

disaster prevention education

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   Caption: "Match Cat" board game simulates a fire in a building, guiding players to think

about the route of emergency escape

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   Caption: Saving A-zai"helps children to learn from the game how to save a drowning person

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   Caption: Children learn to escape from a burning building