Event Background
"Gongan Social Lab: CGE Social Practice Week" is an initiative launched by the Center for General Education in 2025 to promote the core spirit of social practice. It invites organizations actively engaged in social practice to come on campus and, through a series of diverse events held over several consecutive days, interpret for our faculty and students the various strategies and forms of creating social impact. To bring change to our everyday challenges, we must first spark empathy, propose innovative strategies, and embrace a spirit of adventure. Gongan Social Lab is our laboratory for moving toward a better future.
Event Introduction
The 2026 "Gongan Social Lab – CGE Social Practice Week" takes "Power in Action: Design Innovation, Sustainable Practice, and Social Dialogue" as its theme. Partnering with Taiwan Power Company (Taipower), the event opens a profound dialogue that spans generations and shifts in values.
Looking back, Taipower has long been rooted in a culture of professional and precise engineering. However, the intense public interest and challenges surrounding energy issues in Taiwan around 2012 sent a clear message: to earn public trust, the connection with society could not be limited to "transmitting electricity" — it also required an "intersection of values," becoming a true partner in everyday life.
Since 2015, Taipower has been steadily building experience in public art, cultural preservation, creative industry development, energy education, community activities, and sports support — reaching into neighborhoods through various mediums such as light and shadow, art, curation, and storytelling. Through these thoughtful connections, more and more people have come to understand that Taipower is not only a supplier of electricity, but also a warm network weaving Taiwan's society together.
This Social Practice Week brings together exhibitions, lectures, field visits, and workshops to interpret the meaning of social practice through the lens of Taipower. Starting from the exhibition, participants will gain a comprehensive understanding of Taipower's approaches to energy transition, public art, and the repurposing of retired materials. Through lectures, the event delves into how corporations respond to environmental issues and their responsibilities in public space and social communication. Field visits offer a firsthand look at how companies create pathways for dialogue with the public. In workshops, interactive games transform energy and sustainability topics into concrete actions. Participants will also be delighted to discover the deep connections between NTUST and Taipower.
The event features bilingual (Chinese and English) exhibitions and select bilingual activities, creating an immersive bilingual learning environment.
"Power in Action" will take you to appreciate Taipower's cultural and creative works, step into its public art spaces, experience the facilities at Energym, discover repurposed retired materials, and listen to stories of Taipower's transformation — deepening your understanding of Taipower's vision with each encounter. A decade of steady effort has allowed Taiwan to experience a more open and warm energy partner.
Exhibition Information
Exhibition Period: May 18 (Mon) – May 22 (Fri), 2026, daily 9:30–16:30
Exhibition Venue: NTUST Art Gallery, International Building IB-B Area
Guided Tour Times: May 18 (Mon), 12:45–13:10
Tour Language: Chinese
[Exhibition Content] Themed Exhibition: "Power in Action: Design Innovation, Sustainable Practice, and Social Dialogue"
In the past, Taipower's core mission was to provide stable electricity. However, as green thinking and energy transition advance, the power industry is no longer defined solely by a heads-down engineering culture. We begin to ask: once electricity supply becomes a basic guarantee of daily life, how can a power company harness the power of design to create meaningful ESG impact and thrive together with society?
"Gongan Social Lab" hopes to use this exhibition as a starting point for dialogue, showcasing how Taipower thinks about human needs from the ground up and translates an ESG vision into concrete corporate goals. Through this exhibition, we invite everyone to move beyond the traditional imagination of electricity and see how Taipower combines design thinking, drives service innovation, and — on the road to net-zero emissions — fulfills its promise of a journey from a single kilowatt-hour to a sustainable future.
Series of Events
[Lecture] Using Design to Create Meaningful Social Communication
Speaker: SU,PIN-ZIH / Section Chief, Public Affairs Promotion Division, Public Services Department, Taipower
Time: May 18, 2026 (Mon) 14:00–15:00
Venue: NTUST Art Gallery
When electricity becomes a force that connects society — from "Lighting Up the Thirteen Floors" to the "Power Earth Special Exhibition" — art, design, and local co-creation converge to bring energy into culture and into the hearts of people.
[Lecture] A Material's Second Life
Speaker: HUANG,CHIH-CHI / Section Chief, Cultural and Creative Business Division, Planning Group, New Business Development Office, Taipower
Time: May 21, 2026 (Thu) 12:20–13:20
Venue: NTUST Art Gallery
Taipower Cultural & Creative takes the by-products and retired equipment from the power generation process and, through design, experimentation, and remanufacturing, transforms them into everyday objects that enter people's daily lives.
[Lecture] "Retired Meter Remake Project" — Design Sharing
Speaker: TSENG,WEI-CHIEH / Creative Director, Jieyu Creative
Time: May 21, 2026 (Thu) 14:00–15:00
Venue: NTUST Art Gallery
All products created by Taipower Cultural & Creative are developed in collaboration with renowned Taiwanese design brands.
[Field Visit] Energym Field Trip (Chinese & English Groups)
Speaker: CHENG,WEI-KANG / Section Chief, Exhibition Operations Division, Public Affairs Promotion Group, Public Services Department, Taipower
Time: May 19, 2026 (Tue) 13:00–14:30
Venue: Energym (1F, No. 1, Section 2, Xianmin Blvd., Banqiao District, New Taipei City)
Assembly Time/Location: 12:20 at NTUST Main Gate
Transportation: By charter bus
Language: Chinese / English
Capacity: 40 participants total (both groups)
[Field Visit] Energy Art: Social Communication through Urban Aesthetics
Speakers: HOU,LI-WEI and WANG,HSIAO-TING / Section Chief and Specialist, Public Art Division, Architecture Group, Construction Department, Taipower
Time: May 20, 2026 (Wed) 13:40–15:10
Venue: Taiwan Power Company Headquarters Building (No. 242, Section 3, Roosevelt Rd., Zhongzheng District, Taipei City)
Assembly Time/Location: 13:30–13:40 , Lobby, 1F of Taipower Building
Language: Chinese
Capacity: 40 participants
Side Activities
🌟 Special Event Perks!
[Survey for Meal Voucher] Register and complete a feedback survey after the event to redeem a meal voucher (limited quantities; please collect from staff before leaving).
[Stamp Card Activity] During the event, scan the QR code to follow the Center for General Education's official LINE account, and use the stamp card feature to collect points. Each exhibition tour, lecture, or field visit earns one point; collect 3 points to redeem a prize.
Special Thanks
Taiwan Power Company (Taipower) bears the responsibility of national electricity supply and energy transition. Its sustainable governance framework is built upon three pillars — Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) — and has long promoted energy transition, green energy development, and sustainable supply chain construction, dedicating its efforts to environmental protection, climate action, and stakeholder communication.
In terms of environmental and sustainability practices, Taipower's published sustainability reports detail its concrete actions toward mitigating climate change, developing clean energy, and improving energy efficiency, with annual reports disclosing outcomes and strategic progress to the public.
Taipower Cultural & Creative is Taiwan Power Company's pursuit of environmental sustainability through the circular economy. It collects by-products, discarded equipment, and recyclable materials generated during the power generation process, and — through research, experimentation, and refined design — re-introduces them into the manufacturing cycle. The aspiration is for Taipower Cultural & Creative's works to reach into the everyday lives of every household, awakening in consumers a shared sense of environmental awareness. All merchandise is grounded in circular economy materials recovered from the power industry, which are deconstructed and reassembled to give them new life. Whether it is silt excavated from reservoirs used in pumped-storage hydropower, the weathered wooden crossarms removed from retired utility poles along with their inseparable pole identification plates, coal ash that once glowed and burned bright before being spent, insulators of varied forms yet all polished to a brilliant sheen, transformer housing battered by sun, wind, and rain at roadsides, or the rare copper water-seal bars inside pumped-storage turbines — what they all have in common is that each once played a part in maintaining stable electricity supply throughout the power generation and transmission process.
Contact Information
Contact: Ms. Wu, Center for General Education
Tel: (02)2730-1182
Email: yachin0930@mail.ntust.edu.tw
Supervising Authority: Ministry of Education Organizer: National Taiwan University of Science and Technology – Higher Education Sprout Project, Center for General Education | Chengnan Academy