TAINAN, Taiwan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A total of ten students from the College of Planning and Design at National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Tainan, Taiwan, traveled to the Netherlands this summer from July to September for internship to work with local Dutch designers.
Among them, six headed to Amsterdam to work at Metabolic, Mediamatic, and Pilotfish, and four headed to Eindhoven to work at PeliDesign, Gerard Jasperse and Teun Fleskens, according to Bart van Bueren who initiated the internship program with Prof. Yi Sheng Goh to foster sustainable collaboration between NCKU and Dutch design industries.
Bart said, to do internship program in Netherlands is a smart choice. The expert is from the Netherlands, currently a visiting expert in the Institute of Creative Industry Design (ICID).
He added, with the Dutch Design Post (DDP), a Dutch-based trading house set up by NCKU in Tainan City, "We had lots of Dutch designers coming to Taiwan and the collaboration went well."
This program is part of the larger Pilot Overseas Internship Program sponsored by the Ministry of Education. "About 25 students applied for the internship and we took only 10 of them," he said.
“I’m very proud of this program,” said Bart, “It’s really something as a foreign faculty that I could do and the Taiwanese teachers would not be able to do in the same way.”
ICID graduate student Penny Wu said, “I did some sketches of chairs with designers in PeliDesign.”
“I also learned a lot of business models as an intern in PeliDesign and Teun Fleskens. People I work with are so encouraging and supportive for new ideas,” added Penny.
Ruby Lee from the Department of Industrial Design is interested in programming, data visualization and interactive design and she had two-month internship with Mediamatic.
“My job there was helping the designers to show their work in the city, which involved a lot of negotiation and communication.” said Ruby.
She also noted, “Because of the job, I pedaled around in Amsterdam taking photos every day and as a result I learned the city’s cycle routes very well.”
Talking about the most interesting experience that she had with the company, she said, “I even helped with building a pizza oven in the office just because they’d like to have pizza there.”
