The best way to predict the future is to invent it. ―Alan Kay
預測未來的最好辦法，就是將它創造出來。
當數位、製造與無所不在的全球化與運算互相結合時，足以改變未來。秉持著成為發明者和創造者之前，必須先成為自造者和駭客的概念，我們舉辦一系列 創造•未來•原型的國際工作坊。每年我們招募專家來教授學生，並提供建議幫助學生測試他們的想法。
2019年工作營主題「循環法則 (Ouroboros)」。Ouroboros是來自希臘的銜尾蛇古老象徵。它所衍生的「∞」符號有很多不同的意義，其中之一是象徵所有事物皆有兩極，這兩股對立的力量雖然不相容，但並非處於對抗的立場。而Ouroboros的另一種意義象徵著無限，在自我焚滅的過程中能再次重生。
人、事、時、地、物構成循環時，便開始周期性的自我發展，不斷的更迭，進行「破壞」與「建構」的反覆，成為一種永恆的循環模式，而生物、空間幾何與社交互動皆有自己的循環模式。在2019「循環法則」國際工作營中，我們試圖從這三個層面進行破壞與建構，探索各領域是如何構成獨特的循環法則，亦試圖形成生物、空間幾何與社交互動的循環。
When the manufacturing, globe ubiquitous computing are integrated with digital technology, it is the key to change the future. Thus, IDF held a series of international workshop focus upon Create。Future。Prototype every year, we invited experts and scholars all over the world to share their most advanced technology and help students to testify their ideas with practice. We believed that one must first be makers and hackers, before he become an inventors or creators.
The 2019 workshop subject is "Ouroboros", which is an ancient Egyptian iconography symbol depicting a serpent or dragon eating its own tail. For its picturesque metaphor in shape and self-eating activity, ouroboros was adopted as a notable symbol in Gnosticism, Hermeticism, alchemy and being related to "∞" symbol in mathematics. Ouroboros symbolize two ends in one line, where two opposing forces are incompatible, but not in a confrontational position. In addition, ouroboros can also be interpreted as infinity and reborn again in the process of self-burning. Just as a cycle system which contains people, events, time, space, and things, everything included will constantly change and begin to develop by themselves. With the eternal pattern of "destruction" and "construction" recursively. In this anniversary international workshop, “Ouroboros”, we will focus on 3 direction: biological, spatial, and social interaction, try to explore the unique cycle pattern between destruction and the construction in each fields.
Ouroboros ─ 循環法則
從生物、空間幾何、社交互動的關係意象發展
三方面因素組成的圖形觸動啟發、交錯疊累，產生不同的樣貌，並且向下延續
交集的線條表現不同領域互動意象，彼此探討並交流，圖形層層發展
形成無止盡環繞的迴圈，呼應 Ouroboros 無限的循環
Client｜國立雲林科技大學 自造者中心 National Yunlin University of Science and Technology
Graphic design｜楊綠早 Green Yang
Graphic design｜楊綠早 Green Yang
Photography｜Jimmy Wu
