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).
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 |
