Tim Wong

FabCafe Taipei / Loftwork Taiwan Co-founder

Tim was born in Hong Kong and lived in the US for 17 years. He relocated to Taiwan in 2008, because he believes Taiwan has the good opportunity to create a creative platform that cultivates innovative ideas and projects with creative talents from different background.

Before co-foundin FabCafe Taipei in 2013 and Loftwork Taiwan in 2014, Tim has been an urban design practitioner for 7 years and worked on urban design projects across the US, Middle East, and various Asian cities. He graduated from Harvard Graduate School of Design with dual Master degrees in Architecture and Urban Design.

2021

Judge’s selections

Leap Prize

A Lighter Delicacy

individual

This project exemplifies the mindset which we need to think outside of the box and push the boundary of "zero waste". Although this project might be speculative in nature and far from reaching a scalable market yet, but we urgently need such project to jolt us from the business-as-usual way of thinking.

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Pivoting Prize

Social contribution shopping site "KURADASHI"

株式会社クラダシ

Kuradashi provides an alternative consumer platform to create a positive cycle for reducing food waste. It's great to see that its business model is designed to incentify and to pass forward the value to customers, so the customers can have more sustainable and affordable purchasing options.

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Summit Prize

REstone

REnato lab

E-waste is a very challenge and ever-growing concerns for the environment. It's great to see such long term collaboration and leap-frogging approach to create new products.

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Wholesome Prize

CIRCUULAR ECONOMY CSA

鴨志田農園（屋号）

This is a great example of well-rounded sustainability project which shows the possibility of changes through community engagement and redesigning of roles between providers and consumers.

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After Mile Prize

CRUST Sustainable Unique Label

Individual

Crust is a great upcycling case which they are able to generate new value from food waste. I'm looking forward to the paradigm-shift where this kind of business approach could be more widely accepted in the mainstream consumer market.

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