Department of Design, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology

Introduction

If the graduation exhibition is a collective framework, how do we trace its boundaries and explore the relationships between us?

Graduation projects stand as a threshold that must be crossed—often described as the most “free” moment of creatingYet this freedom is inevitably embedded within the necessity of completion. The imagery of the rope resides within this tension: through pulling, intertwining, and shifting, it gives rise to forces that both constrain and connect.

As it stretches between two ends, the rope generates entanglements, and boundaries quietly begin to surface. Within this state of tension, we are able to turn back upon ourselves: reconsidering our relationships with our works, and with design itself.

Taking the rope as a prototype through which relationships are revealed, the exhibition opens a space for reinterpretation and dialogue beyond singular narratives. Through an open framework of inquiry, it brings together hundreds of creators and hundreds of readings—each distinct, yet entangled within the same field of relations.