Noah Chen

I believe in reading thousands of books multiplied by traveling thousands of miles;
through designing my own knowledge system and exploration, I have become a child of the mountains and sea.

I am a child of nature, and I have transformed my love for the environment into a clear recognition that this is the goal in life I am most passionate about, perceptive of, burdened by, and responsible for. I am willing to dedicate my entire life to understanding the biosphere, the relationships among all species within the ecosystem, through experience design and motivational creation to generate ripples and forming about waves of change.

At age 12, I discovered my love for nature, especially Taiwan’s high-altitude mountain environments. Due to the primary school I attended, where graduation required climbing Xueshan (Snow Mountain), I began high mountain training in sixth grade. This arrival planted a personality deeply rooted in environment and nature within me. The first sensory impact was the beauty—the irreversible impression of environmental beauty engraved my love and an endless motivation to explore. Through extensive climbing, training, and long-term exploration, my connection with nature started as love at first sight, later deepening through prolonged affection.

At 15, I encountered the ocean. As David Attenborough described, the last wilderness of the Earth, I first explored marine life through physical, unpowered freediving, relying on my own ability to reach deeper and farther waters. Later, wishing to observe coral spawning, I took up scuba diving. I aimed to maximize my time with the ocean and called myself a dual major in mountains and sea. In that moment, my love for the environment transformed into a life-spanning motivation to protect, defend, understand, experience, advocate, share, communicate, and learn about the environment.

This motivation arises from the mountains and from corals, algae, and marine mammals. Through experience design, I hope to research how to maximize public motivation for climate action, persuading you through the richness, diversity, depth, emotion, and beauty of the environment—not to represent the environment but to believe that once you experience it firsthand, your awareness and attitude toward it will absolutely change.