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Upcoming Events ：2025 Annual Conference
Theme: Design Thinking Across Boundaries: Reimagining Education in a Changing World
Date: October 25, 2025 (Saturday)
Venue: Messe Taoyuan（No. 99, Sec. 1, Linghang N. Rd., Zhongli Dist., Taoyuan City 320014, Taiwan (R.O.C.) ）
Contact: aite240918@gmail.com
TRANS-Edu 2025 International Conference
Design Thinking Across Boundaries: Reimagining Education in a Changing World
In a rapidly evolving world, education is no longer merely a one-way transmission of knowledge, but rather an innovative practice centered on Design Thinking. Through needs insight, prototype experimentation, and iterative improvement, it continuously reconstructs learning experiences and social value. This international symposium, jointly organized by the Taiwan Society for Innovative Interdisciplinary Education, Taiwan Design Research Institute, and multiple universities, cordially invites designers, scholars, educators, and interdisciplinary practitioners to focus on the convergence of "Design × Education × Social Impact" and explore human-centered pathways for educational transformation.
This conference focuses on four key themes to address the diverse challenges facing contemporary education:
1. Transform: Design-Driven Organizational Innovation
Educational institutions integrate design thinking through human-centered insights, rapid prototyping, and interdisciplinary project systems to reshape governance, curriculum, and service processes, validating effectiveness through Lean Startup methodologies and real-world field practices. This theme will focus on interdisciplinary project frameworks, lean startup methods, and resource integration strategies, exploring how to cultivate students' problem definition and solving capabilities while building future-oriented resilient organizational cultures.
2. Transmute: Learning Communities and Knowledge Integration
Artistic practice uses the body and environment as interfaces, interweaving with technology, humanities, and local knowledge within the design thinking framework to generate dynamic cross-cultural and interdisciplinary collaborative learning communities. This theme will focus on applied theatre, experiential curricula, and body dialogue strategies, exploring how to construct shareable and iterative collective intelligence ecosystems supported by careful operations and feedback mechanisms for long-term knowledge integration and community resilience.
3. Translocate: Global Perspectives and Local Impact
At the intersection of global sustainability agendas and local needs, educational initiatives must leverage co-creation and design research to transform diverse cultural experiences into concrete social impact. This theme will focus on cross-cultural collaborative teaching, overseas workshops, and local field co-creation, exploring how to strengthen educational accessibility through Glocal Design and establish sustainable reciprocal mechanisms.
4. Transpose: Technological Tools and Teaching Innovation
Technological tools are rapidly refreshing the toolkit for interdisciplinary curricula. When teachers design learning contexts through multi-sensory experiences, data-driven platforms, and field prototyping, how should students transform their roles through practice and reflection? And how should interdisciplinary knowledge connections be evaluated? This theme focuses on three major dimensions: sensory artistic methods, VR, and field prototype testing, discussing how these emerging tools reshape curriculum design, enhance interdisciplinary learning effectiveness, and create new opportunities for teacher professional development and interdisciplinary collaboration.
Program
Program
09:30–09:45｜Opening、AITE Introduction
09:45–10:30｜Keynote I — Interdisciplinary Education and Institutional Innovation
Moderator: Chang Sheng Lin (President of AITE )
Panelists:
Johan Lauwereyns (Vice President for International Affairs, Kyushu University)
10:30–10:40｜Break / Transition
10:40–11:20｜Session I — College-Wide / Non-departmental Teaching in Practice (NSYSU Human-Centered Interdisciplinary Program)
Moderator/Discussant:Shin Yi Peng（彭心儀）, Director of the Exploratory Learning Center, National Tsing Hua University (invited)
Presenters:
Shih Hsiang Sung（宋世祥）(Associate Professor, NSYSU Human-Centered Interdisciplinary Program) : From Design Thinking to Interdisciplinary Project Capabilities
Ru Mei Hsieh（謝如梅）(Associate Professor, NSYSU Human-Centered Interdisciplinary Program) : How to Teach Interdisciplinary Making? Lessons from Lean Startup and Reflective Practice
Hao Ching Hsia（夏晧清）(Assistant Professor, NSYSU Human-Centered Interdisciplinary Program) : What Projects Often Overlook: Mapping and Integrating External Resources
11:20–11:30｜Break / Transition
11:30–12:10｜Session II — Artistic Practice as an Entry to Interdisciplinary Education (NCCU X-College × TMiS × Taipei National University of the Arts)
Moderator/Discussant: Chia Chi Chang（張佳琪）, Dean, College of Interdisciplinary Studies, Taipei Medical University (invited)
Presenters:
Wen Ling Chen（陳文玲）(Professor, National Chengchi University X-College) and Yan Chen Huang（黃彥晨）(Executive Officer, National Chengchi University X-College / In-Service Master's Student, Psychoanalysis, Shih Chien University)
Shu Hwa Jung（容淑華）(Associate Professor, TNUA Graduate Institute of Arts and Humanities Education) : Toward Borderless Arts Education: Theatre Arts in Applied Theatre
Chu Yun Wang（王筑筠）(Adjunct Assistant Professor, TNUA Center for General Education) : When the Body Becomes a Site of Dialogue: Pedagogical Shifts and Interactive Learning in Experiential Courses
12:10–13:00｜Lunch
Board of Directors and Supervisors Meeting (Pre-meeting Online Conference)
Members' General Assembly (In-Person)
13:00–13:40｜Keynote II — Global Trends in Transdisciplinary Education
Moderator: Chang Sheng Lin (President of AITE )
Speakers:
Spencer A. Benson (Education Innovations International Consulting)
13:40–14:00｜Break / Transition
14:00–14:40｜Session III — Cross-Cultural Experiences in Interdisciplinary Teaching
Moderator/Discussant: Spencer A. Benson (Education Innovations International Consulting)
Presenters:
Hiroki Tsuruta (Professor, Kobe University V.School) : TBD
Titus Spree （University of the Ryukyus ）: Ryudai+C
Xiao Yan Li（李曉燕）(Assistant Professor, Kyushu University, School of Interdisciplinary Science and Innovation): Exploring Interdisciplinary Education from a Co-creation Perspective: Educational Visions and Talent Development Goals from Teachers and Students.
14:40–14:50｜Break / Transition
14:50–15:50｜Session IV — Tools & Strategies for Interdisciplinary Teaching
Moderator/Discussant: Tseng Yuan Chi （曾元琦）(Dean of Tsing Hua Residential College, NTHU) （invited）
Presenters:
Tsung Hsin Lee（李宗興）(Project Assistant Professor, NTU Transdisciplinary Bachelor’s Program) : Designing Perceptual Experience: Art-Based Innovations in Interdisciplinary Teaching
Jen I Chiu（邱仁一）(Assistant Professor, Yuan Ze University, Dept. of Information Communication) : Meta-Analysis: Leveraging EdTech to Enhance Design-Driven Interdisciplinary Learning
Ying Fen Chen（陳盈棻）(Assistant Professor, National Taipei University of Technology, Dept. of Architecture) : Making the Design “Black Box” Perceptible: Incorporating 3D Spatial Scanning into Architectural Education
Shu Shiun Ku（古淑薰）(Associate Professor, National Pingtung University, Department of Cultural & Creative Industries): Designing Dialogue with the Other: An Exploration of Mediumship Culture and Cross-cultural Teaching Practices
15:50–16:00｜Coffee Break
16:00–16:30｜TRANS-Ed AI Co-Creation Studio (Round-Table Discussions)
Priority for participants with prior design or interdisciplinary teaching experience.
16:30–16:50｜General Discussion
16:50–17:00｜Closing
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