The Micro-awareness-International Design Study Forum and Conference was held from June 17^th to 18^th in the year of 2014. The conference was organized around the ideas of international vision, localization, diversity and interdisciplinary cooperation.

The issues the conference took up were “culture, cross-border diversification, sustainability, and creativity,” and it discussed the trivial details that had the power to change our lives. Through the speeches, presentations and design forum, a platform for international exchanges and learning could be established, thus advancing the research and development potential of the College of Design. Two scholars were invited to act as keynote speakers. They were Assistant Professor Pierre Smars of the Department of Cultural Heritage Conservation, YunTech, who was also a former researcher at R. Lemaire Centre for Conservation at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and Partrice Mugnier, the art director and manager of Active Design in Active Creative Design. The issues they presented were about cultural heritage buildings and public arts. The co-chairs, Professor Chiou Shang-chia and Associate Professor Peng Li-hsun, introduced the backgrounds of the speakers and the issues. During their introduction, they also shared some research data they did and some micro-points to provide newer vision for the academic area and hoped Taiwan would be able to connect with the world. Moreover, not only the alumni of the College of Design but also the staff members and students of Kobe Design University, Japan, Beijing Institute of Technology, Mainland China, and Dongseo University, South Korea, were invited to take part in the conference. It is hoped that a platform for Asian design could be built through exchanges of design research and knowledge from the four countries.  

The design colleges of the 4 well-known universities located in Japan, the Mainland China, South Korea and Taiwan, formed a group to hold an international design forum and conference yearly. In 2008, the forum and conference was held by Kobe Design University, Japan. In 2012, the forum and conference was held by Beijing Institute of Technology, Mainland China. In 2013, the forum and conference was held by Dongseo University, South Korea. And in 2014, YunTech took the responsibility to hold the forum and conference.