Chiu believes in interdisciplinary collaboration and the effectiveness of a collective voice to represent the creative industry for progress change.
With academic backgrounds in mathematics, chemistry and linguistics, she has spent most of her adult life working to help designers and students of design promote their work across national and cultural barriers. To this end, she has striven to help them achieve true cross-cultural experiences that will add to their lives and enrich their output as professionals.
Prior to her current appointment Chiu was on the Executive Board of the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (Icsid) and Director of the International Design Center NAGOYA (IdcN). In her capacity there, she instigated and acted as creative director for over 160 design promotion projects and collaborated with governments, design centers and academic institutions around the world. In addition, she has lectured at design conferences and academic institutions in over 31 countries, and served on numerous competition juries including Adobe Design Achievement Award, Red Dot Design Concept Award, Brno Biennial, Design for Asia Award, World Design Leadership Award, BIO (Biennale of Industrial Design), and the Good Design Award.
Icograda is the world body for professional communication design. It is a non-profit, non-partisan, member-based network of independent organisations and stakeholders working within the multidisciplinary scope of communication design. Founded in 1963, Icograda actively promotes the value of design, design thinking and design policy, representing 200 organisations in 67 countries and regions globally. Icograda is a partner of the International Design Alliance, maintains consultative status with UNESCO, UNIDO, WIPO and is in liaison with the ISO.
Current key initiatives include the World Design Survey™, Iridescent: Icograda Journal of Design Research, updating the Icograda Design Education Manifesto, INDIGO, the International Indigenous Design Network and the development of SolveD, which will be an action think tank incubated by icograda to solve global agendas by liaising design with non-design stakeholders.
Founded in 1969, JIDPO hosts the "Good Design Award" (G-Mark), and has been playing a key role in formulation and implementation of promotional and developmental measures for growth of the creative industries in Japan, partnering industry, government and the creative community.
A leading art and design university in Japan, The College of Art and Design established at MAU in 1962 was the first academic entity of its kind in Japan.
Icograda Design Education Manifesto 2010, Jinan, China
Icograda Design Education Manifesto 2010, Jinan, China
