HUNAN, China — From June 8-15, 2025, Professor Zhang Duoduo (School of Design, Hunan University) and Professor Nick Bryan-Kinns (Creative Computing Institute, University of the Arts London) co-led an 8-day international collaborative workshop in Huxingshan Yao Township, Longhui County, Hunan. Centered on “Future Making: GenAI and Vernacular Creativity in ICH Communities”, the initiative brou...
On the evening of October 8th, 2022, the Global Design Education Forum and the 40th Anniversary Ceremony of Industrial Design, Hunan University was successfully held in a hybrid way of both online and offline. After 40 years of development since 1982, the Industrial Design of Hunan University has always taken the cultivation of leading design talents with "innovative applications on reality" a...
On April 5, 2022, from 19:00 to 20:15 Beijing time, the online sharing talk of research life of oversea design PhDs, hosted by the School of Design, Hunan University, was held as scheduled through Tencent Meeting. The event received enthusiastic comments during the meeting and was well received by students and parents.The sharing talk was hosted by Assistant Professor Luan Zhilong of Hunan Univ...
On March 18, 2022, from 20:00 to 21:30 Beijing time, the "new engineering • new design"-- "health, data and people-centered design" international forum, hosted by the school of design at Hunan University and the Teaching Steering Subcommittee of Industrial Design in Higher Education Institutions of The Ministry of Education, was held as scheduled in the form of online conference live broadcast...
Reality has been represented in such various forms from virtual, augmented, mixed to tangible. The emerging technologies from multimedia to transmedia are enabling designers with an incredible possibility to re-shape the interactive experience between the human, the artifact and the world we live in. Meanwhile let us reflect on the relationship and its meaning between reality and the experience...
Design education always thrives on global collaboration. However, the pandemic has significantly changed the ways we live, work and collaborate. How it means for design education. How the global design education will go in the post-pandemic age. How we can learn and teach design in the future. In this seminar, we invite four design educators from USA, Canada, Netherlands and Brazil to share the...
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