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The Thailand Creative and Design Center

shares prime real estate right up there with cinemas and dollar-earning boutiques.
it isn't just some token nod to "oh yeah, we need a learning space for design, because you know,
it's important nowadays", but a major investment in challenging Thai designers' and entrepreneurs' boundaries.
It has the biggest Design library in Asia, Material Connexions - an interactive (as in touch&feel, not point&click)
resource for product developement materials and just an amazing, welcoming, encouraging space
for creatives to hang around and expand their minds.
But ok, i should stop gushing. take a look at it yourself - www.tcdc.or.th
(Doofus, i think you'll like it here.)

I'm thinking i'm probably just very impressed because i come from a 3rd world country.
But i guess, the lack of resources like this is precisely what makes where i come from so.
A guest speaker on Japanese design mentioned the concept of "information as environment".
And with TCDC i see how, by putting so much information within reach, they're one step closer
to expanding Thailand's place in the world.