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TAIPEI, Dec. 1, 2021 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/ --

-After a four-year hiatus, the World Design Impact Prize(TM) initiated by World

Design Organization (WDO) was once again held in 2021, a year the world

struggled, and Taiwanese firm Miniwiz won the First Prize with sustainable and

innovative design, TRASHPRESSO.

With countries in the world growingly concerned with issues of climate and

environmental changes, uneven distribution of resources, and sustainability,

global designers have also started to proactively shift their attention onto

social issues. Unlike traditional designs that focused on "product" and

"function," designers have turned to "people" and "environment" as the focus of

their works, and more and more of them begin to propose different observations

and solutions for social issues of sustainable industrial development, wealth

gap, and ageing population, changing life through design, and the concept of

building better environment through the power of design is becoming more

prominent across the world.

WDC launched the biennial World Design Impact Prize(TM)(WDIP) in 2011,

encouraging designers to apply design to solve the social, economic, cultural,

and environmental problems the world will face in real urban development, in

order to enhance world citizens' quality of life and create a better

environment.

Since the award ceremony at World Design Capital Taipei in 2016, the Fourth

WDIP finally called for submissions again after a four-year hiatus. This

edition of WDIP focused on the theme of SDGs, and applicants were recommended

by WDO members. Taiwan Design Research Institute, a WDO member in Taiwan,

recommended TRASHPRESSO by Taiwanese firm Miniwiz to represent Taiwan at this

year's WDIP.

This year's WDIP jury consisted of five experts in different disciplines,

including Chetan Choudhury, an advisor with the Prime Minister's Office of the

UAE in Dubai, Teresa Franqueira, associate professor at Aveiro University, and

Wenny Kusuma, former UN Women Country Representative in Cambodia. The jurors

selected 10 most iconic real cases from a pool of 129 global submissions as

finalists, and 170 WDO member organizations around the globe voted for the

winners. Miniwiz's TRASHPRESSO won the First Prize of the 2021 WDIP, marking

Taiwan's first win at the global design award, a testament to the universal

recognition of Taiwan design.

"Turning wastes into gold" is the belief and motive Arthur Huang has continued

developing since founding Miniwiz. The WDIP-winning TRASHPRESSO is the world's

first portable industrial-grade plastic waste recycling platform with a size of

merely two industrial refrigerators. It makes the collection, classification,

and conversion of garbage more democratic, and consumes only 7,000W of power,

leaving minimal air/water footprints. The machine is capable of converting

industrial and domestic wastes into valuable materials such as sustainable

building supplies, special textiles, and furniture, through 3-minute cycles,

and can process up to 500 kg of plastic waste daily for a community of 10,000

people.

Now, Miniwiz is bringing TRASHPRESSO to cooperate with global organizations,

such as using local wastes to build schools in Tibet, and turning ocean

plastics collected through beach cleaning activities into the floor tiles of

Sardinia Community Center. Through innovative design thinking, Miniwiz

facilitates real changes to the seemingly complicated and irreversible social

issues. "Design for a better tomorrow" has become a global trend, and Taiwan

design is also exerting its influences in all corners of the world.

SOURCE: Taiwan Design Research Institute

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   Caption: TRASHPRESSO by Miniwiz wins 2021 WDIP, they brings TRASHPRESSO to Tibet and

builds a school using local wastes/Photo credit: Miniwiz