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Climb art summit; promote handicapped talent and skills
      Idea Chu, the most senior landscape art maestro, has been building dreams since he was very young. After dreams come true, he would “go back to zero” resolutely without the least hesitation looking for his next dream. For a long time, he holds believes of “respect the nature; defend the land; and love the people” to finish many wonderful art pieces. He was awarded “China Wen Zhou City Spiritual Landmark [Magnificent Art Heavenly Treasure] Landscape Sculpture International Contest Champion”, “Kaohsiung 228 Peace Park Spiritual Landmark Landscape Sculpture International Contest Champion”; he also has supervised more than 60% theme park in Taiwan such as Ming Dao Junior High School, Encore Garden, Dragon Valley Park, Dale Sculpture Park, Maolin National Natural Park, Liouciou Oceanic Park, Ling Tung University, Australia Ling Yen Shan Temple.

      It is important to note that: he cares for the disadvantaged minority with actual practice. For 30 years, he has hire one third of disabled employees and encourages them to work for the best, develop their potentials and live a dignified life with professional ability. He founded “Chinese Physical Disabled Talent and Skill Association” with the famous host of radio broadcasting Ms Shi Yuan-na and started computer class, graphic design, mouth and foot painting, music talent class for the disabled to help them develop skills and live for hope and dignity.

      For pursuing his significant other Tseng Yu-chu, a gynecology nurse, he collected thousand of baby doll from everywhere in the world and gave a pair of dolls to her every time they date. His sincerity has touched her and his dream-building with love has come true. One pair of “Denmark Dolls” became their love memory and the “United Nation of baby dolls” is in the Guinness World Record. Dr. Idea Chu lives to find his dreams and fulfills his dream by surpassing art summit and promotes handicapped talent and skill; he deserved to be called “Hero of dream-building”.

      Growth in difficult
      Born 1947 in Qingdao City, Shandong Province, Idea Chu followed his parents from Shanghai to Taiwan in 1949 and finished his studies in Taiwan Art University Department of Fine Arts, Japanese Agriculture University Graduate School of Landscaping, U.S. California International University Landscape Studies Ph.D. program, and Australia National Wollongong University post-doctorate studies.

      He grew in a poor family of entry level government employees. Five members of his family were crowed in a building constructed without license, which has no kitchen and bathroom. The bamboo-made roof cannot hide them from storms and wind. They used the discarded floor-board as their bed and table. Therefore, “writing his assignment” can only be finished in school or done after his siblings sleep. “Studying” can only rely on the street lamp in the corner of alley. In this financial circumstance, he never gives up studying and dreaming; he finally finished the studies for junior and senior high schools and college education by work-study programs. 

      To work part-time, he used to be a worker in construction and building/moving/ cleaning/ farm field and worked in factory. When he was in college, he cannot afford tuition/ cannot buy books; he had to wash clothes for classmates to earn living expenses. The persistence of “do things people won’t do; endure the sorrow people won’t endure” has given him the ability to live through the difficult days when he was working and studying at the same time. He used to think: “Sometimes I feel sad when I was looked down by people because I was poor; sometimes I feel I was great in spirit because I was not afraid of difficulty and self-reliant.” The contradiction of these two feelings was resolved by the bright hope and beautiful dreams in his mind. The hardship and growth in the difficulty has become the motive power to push him upwards and cherish his success. 

      Hence, regardless in life/study/creative design, he struggled and fulfilled his [dream] by persistence and patience. After 38 years of [arts and design], he accumulated some credits, thanks to the support and care of many good-hearted people so that he could get beautiful applause and honor. For a long time, he holds the belief of [respect the God/defend the earth/love the people] and finishes many beautiful artworks: such as the Ming Dao Junior High School/Encore Garden/Dragon Valley Park/Da Le Sculpture Park/Kaohsiung 228 Memorial Park/Maolin National Natural Park/Little Ryukyu Ocean Park/Landmark sculpture of Wenchou, China /Ling Tung Institute of Technology/Lin Yan Temple (Australia).
      Make a breakthrough
      In 1968, he participated in the contest of designing campus door for Ming Dao Junior High School and he finished 30 design sketches for the competition. He finally won the championship and the second place to start his [landscape arts] and design career. He was invited by Ming Dao Junior High School to serve as the chief of teaching and education and full-time teacher. He established the departments of art and design, advertisement and construction and also the students’ counseling offices.

      In 1973, he gave up the high salaries as being a teacher and administrative position in Ming Dao Junior High School and started an odd job in a construction company to learn the planning practice in construction business and design professionals. He finally was promoted as a professional manager and professional designer in [landscape arts]. 

      In 1975, he gave up the wonderful salary in the biggest construction company in middle Taiwan, and became a student again to learn (landscape arts) and (theme-park planning) in Japan. He planted the professional ability for his future. 

      In 1977, he worked on the integral planning and designing for Taichung Encore Garden/ Dragon Valley Theme-park/ Taichung Dragon Heart Department Store. He finally overcame many difficulties and achieved the mission successfully.
      In 1981, he again [back to zero] and went to study [landscape arts] in the U.S.
      In 1982, he was invited as being an instructor in National Taiwan University of Arts Department of Art and Design
      In 1983, he worked on the integral planning and design for Taipei Dale sculpture Park and Count Village.
      In 1985, he was invited as being an administrative officer for working on Taipei Rose Chinatown integral planning and design to save the community from being closed down, which became the role model of community development.
      In 1987, he won the championship of the contest held for designing award medal and statue in the national sport conference.
      In 1988, he accepted the contract from Taiwan [Bureau of Tourism] to design the integral planning of Kaohsiung Maolin national nature park and the research report of maolin stalactite.
      In 1990, he accepted the invitation from LinDong technical college and founded the “Department of visual communication and design” using computer technology and multimedia teaching. From two class-year with a little bit more than one hundred students to more than sixty class-year with almost four thousand students after ten years, it has became the extraordinary department under the evaluation from Ministry of Education and the biggest department of design in the world. He helped the school found college of design and served as a school development counselor and administrative officer of campus landscape planning and design.
      In 1991, he accepted the contract from Kaohsiung City Government and worked on the planning, design and supervising in construction for city building’s [landscape arts] and [integral image].
      In 1992, he accepted the international Rotary Club to plan and design the “Love of Rotary” Park in Kaohsiung.
      In 1994, he won the championship in the national contest of Kaohsiung 228 peace park spiritual landmark [landscape sculpture].
      In 1996, he won the championship of China Wen Cho City spiritual landmark [landscape sculpture], the first year award of [distinguished sculpture] artist in national Zhong Xing Literature and Art, first year of Chinese ten most distinguished figures, national [good people, good deed] representative award, Chinese achievement award for starting business from scratch, Chinese Century Gold Dragon distinguished figure award, Nation Ten Landscape Design Gold Cup Award.
      In 1997, he once again [back to zero] and went to study in Australia National Wollongong University landscape sculpture Ph.D. program and was awarded a fellowship.
      In 1998, he accepted a contract in planning and designing the Buddhism Pure Land School “Ling Yang Mountain Temple” in Australia.
In 1999, he helped the people in disaster to walk out of hardship from the work of “921 restoration service group in disaster”.
      Inherit from the ancestor; start the future.
      In 2000, he worked for National Science Museum Foundation, Ling Dong Culture and Education Foundation, Outstanding Talent Culture and Education Foundation Trustee. He announced he would become a lifetime voluntary worker and work on the [landscape art] (prune the inner self and create life value to share beautiful life).
      In 2003, he accepted the invitation from Guo Tong Group to plan and design the Keelong City Xin Yi District land, concerning the life science park district for the development of [future world], which deals with the life garden, life and death studies, life management, life art as a main focus value.\
      Concern for the minority
      For more than 25 years in the work studio, he hired 30 percent of handicapped employees to work in the jobs of accounting/typing/graphic design. He encouraged them to work hard and developed their potential to live a life with dignity.

      Working with the famous hostess in radio station Ms. Shi Yuan-na, he founded Chinese Handicapped Talent and Skill Association to assist physical challenged people in developing skills to become a brave warrior. 

      When he worked as the department head in Ling Dong Technical College Department of Visual Communication Design, he asked for the funds in setting up the computer and graph-design classes for handicapped people and taught them to use computer. 

      For 33 years in international Rotary Club, he promoted the care for minority group and helped the self-sustained ability for handicapped people. 

      While he was born from a family in poverty, he has the attitude of [positive service] to fight the destiny and change fate. He requires himself to create the opportunity of [back to zero] and holds the beautiful hope of creating the legend of [building a dream]. He wishes to become a professional [landscape arts] artist to pursue [extreme perfection] and create [infinite] value from the [limited] life.