Last Friday and Saturday, I attended the 4th International Workshop on design in Civil and Environmental Engineering (DCEE 2015) in Taipei City, Taiwan (
http://dcee2015.info).
I gave two talks: on the first day, on the "Design for robustness, resilience and anti-fragility in the built and
urban environment: considerations from a civil engineering point of
view", and on the second day, on "The long way towards a sound framework for structural design: 10 years of experience in Rome".
I also chaired a session on the first day, and I gave a talk on our
research team in Rome, since, in the committee meetings, it was decided that the the next workshop will be held in Rome in 2016 (on a date yet to be decided, probably in October).
During the conference, we visited the Songshan Cultural and Creative Park and we were given presentations on the Taipei 2016 Design Capital (
http://wdc2016.taipei/en) from the
World Design Capital CEO Wu Han-chung.
On a side activity, I visited the rooftop of Taipei 101 (a landmark super-tall skyscraper, the world's tallest until 2010), a night-market, the Taipei Expo Park, and the Taipei Fine Arts Museum (
http://www.tfam.museum).
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| together with Shang-Hsien Hsieh (Patrick), the workshop chair |
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| Lotte Bjerregaard Jensen of the Technical University of Denmark |
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| Eduardo Miranda giving his keynote speech on performance-based engineering |
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| group photo |
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| Ying-Chih Chang, founder and chief engineer of Envision Engineering Consultants (EEC) | | | | | |
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| at the group dinner |
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| meeting Eduardo Miranda |
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| from the rooftop of Taipei 101 |
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| the Taipei 101 gigantic TMD |
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| in front of the Taipei 101 TMD room |
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| view from the 90th floor of the Taipei 101 |
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| on top of the Taipei 101 |
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| visiting the Taiwan Design Museum |
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| visiting the robotics room in the civil engineering department |
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| (building) drones everywhere |
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| drone |
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| the seismic isolation floor at the civil engineering department |
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| leaving a sign |
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| at the Taipei Expo Park |
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| at a night market in downtown Taipei |
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| at the Songshan Cultural and Creative Park |
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| at the Songshan Cultural and Creative Park |
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| Alice's Rabbit Hole at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum |
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| the Taipei Fine Arts Museum |
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| the World Design Capital CEO Wu Han-chung |
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| Shih-Chung “Jessy” Kang with Edoardo Miranda |
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| at the dinner |
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| obsolete (?) books |
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| Taipei 2016 World Design Capital |
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| next to me in Business class on my way to Taipei on an Asiana 777 flight |
