A Platform for Design Research and Innovation

PhD｜Professor, Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology

Research Interests: Chinese and foreign clothing culture, Chinese and foreign design theory, cross-cultural communication and archaeological research of textile and clothing along the Silk Road.

Deputy Editor-in-Chief of CSSCI journal "Art Design Research"; PhD from Tsinghua University; Jointly trained PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, USA; Visiting scholar and special lecturer at London College of Fashion, UK; Vice President of China National Society for the Promotion of Arts and Culture and Art Development Promotion Association; Expert in the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the People’s Republic of China; Review Expert of China National Arts Fund; Expert in China Academic Degrees and Graduate Education Development Center; Member of the China Arts and Crafts Association; Member of the China Fashion Association; Editor of CSCD journal "Journal of Clothing"; Doctoral supervisor of art at Communication University of China.

Committee Members

PhD｜Senior Lecturer, National University of Malaysia

Research Interests: Architecture and Landscape Architecture

Lecturer in the Department of Architecture and the Built Environment who has a deep interest in research related to Building Thermal Performance, Thermal Comfort and Building Energy Efficiency. Passive Design Applications, especially Vertical Greening Systems (Green Facade, Green Wall) and Sun Shading Devices are the main focus of the research study. With an educational background that covers two main fields in built environment, Architecture and Landscape Architecture, the study is also conducted based on a combination of these fields.

PhD｜Associate Professor, Jiangnan University

Research Interests: Sustainable Design, Social Innovation, Strategic Design and Service Design

Associate professor of industrial design department, School of Design at Jiangnan University, and the director of DESIS lab. He did his PhD study in design at the Politecnico di Milano, jointly with MIT. Before that, he studied in Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Wuxi University of Light Industry and the Politecnico di Milano for his BEng, MA, and MDS in design fields. Currently, he is a member of the international coordination committee of DESIS network (www.desis-network.org) and co-coordinator of DESIS-China. He is also one of founders of China Design Research PhD Colloquium and China Service Design Education Forum. He was a visiting scholar of the ID department of TU/e (12/13) and an expert in the China Academy of Engineering major project “Innovation Design Development Strategy” (13/16).

His research interests focus on strategic design for sustainability, service design for social innovation, and innovation design. He has more than 40 peer-reviewed academic publications in international conferences and journals, and is a reviewer of several international design conferences and journals. His applied research fields include public service and active welfare, healthcare, mobility and equipment, cultural industry etc. He has strong industrial collaboration focusing on key competitiveness building by design innovation; the main partners include Sany, Media, Jialing, Philips, Atlas.copco, Changhong, Ingshi, Longfor, Idataway etc.

Editorial Committee

PhD｜Professor, University of Plymouth

Research Interests: issues of socio-cultural identity and urbanism (including community regeneration), as well as architectural pedagogy.

School of Art, Design and Architecture at University of Plymouth; Architectural Humanities Research Association Steering Committee (2013-2020); Architectural Research European Network; Association Steering Group (2015-2020); Association of Architectural Educators (2010-2012); Charette Editorial Board (2012-2021).

PhD｜Professor, Yunlin University of Science and Technology

Dean of the College of Design, Yunlin University of Science and Technology in Taiwan; Chairman of Graduate School of Design; Distinguished Professor of Graduate School of Design and Department of Creative Design; PhD in Industrial Education from the University of Tennessee in the U.S.; Specialties are industrial product design, green design, lifestyle design, cultural creative design and design education.

PhD｜Researcher, University of Edinburgh

Research Interests: Codesign research particularly in collective creativity, design complexity, cross-cultural issues for design across interaction, products and services.

Postgraduate advisor at the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh; workshop leader for digital media design at Edinburgh College of Art and TU Delft’s Design United Fellow.

Ming Chuan University in Taiwan; Former president of the Taiwan Institute of Design; Judge of the iF Design Talent Award, a global design competition; Jury member of the design discipline of Taiwan Assessment and Evaluation Association; Jury member of the Taiwan Excellence Selection Committee; Inspector of the design discipline in Higher Education Evaluation and Accreditation Council of Taiwan; Director of Humanities, Art and Design, Taiwan Teaching Practice Research Program; Editor of Taiwan's top design journal, Journal of Design (THCI/SCOPUS) ; Editorial Board Member of Journal of Engineering Design (SCIE), an internationally recognized academic journal; Editorial board member of Journal of Design Science (THCI), School of Design, Chung Yuan Christian University; Editorial board member of the Journal of Design Studies, College of Design, Yunlin University of Science and Technology.

PhD｜Associate Professor, Kyoto University of the Arts

Graduate School Arts Studies, Kyoto University of the Arts. He is the tenth generation in a line of Edo maki-e artists (lacquer artists who specialize in sprinkled gold techniques), so he was exposed to lacquer from a very young age. His family had him ingest the raw resin from an early age to develop immunity, and he made works of engraved lacquer (chinkin) when he was still in primary school. After graduating from Japanese high school, he studied in China at the Tsinghua University Academy of Arts & Design, where he focused on metal works, ceramics and Chinese language and crafts history. After obtaining his doctoral degree, he taught lacquer history in China before 2018, when he returned to Japan to focus on his career as an artist. Since then, he made many smaller and larger sized lacquer sculptures in the ‘dry lacquer’ technique and exhibited at several contemporary crafts exhibitions, including Nitten (Japan Fine Arts Exhibition), for which he received several awards. Whilst making his own works, he continues to do research and contribute to international exchange.

Now: Graduate School Arts Studies, Kyoto University of the Arts  

Awards: 

2021 Contemporary Crafts Exhibition Craft Art Award Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum / Contemporary Crafts Exhibition Tokyo Japan

2013 China Contemporary Arts and Crafts Exhibition award of excellence Nantong Central Art Museum Nantong China

2009 China International Contemporary Metal Art Exhibition Gold Awards THE CHINA MILLENNIUM MONUMENT Beijing China

Other:

2022 Japan Fine Arts Exhibition (Nitten) 2022 The National Art Center, Tokyo Tokyo Japan

2021 Japan Fine Arts Exhibition (Nitten) 2021 The National Art Center, Tokyo Tokyo Japan

2020 Japan Fine Arts Exhibition (Nitten) 2020 The National Art Center, Tokyo Tokyo Japan

2019 Japan Fine Arts Exhibition (Nitten) 2019 The National Art Center, Tokyo Tokyo Japan

PhD｜Professor, Namseoul University

Research Interests: Visual Information Design

Namseoul University; President, Hongik Communication Design Forum, Korea (2011-2013); President, Korea Institute of Cultural Product & Design (Institute of Packaging Culture Design), Korea (2005-2009); Vice President, Visual Information design Association of Korea (1990-2000); Permanent Director, Communication Design Association of Korea (1993-1998); Member of the jury of invited writers for the National Design Exhibition of Korea (1989); Member of the jury of invited writers for the design section of the Korea Art Fair (1997); Member of the Academic Evaluation Committee, Korea University Education Council (2001); CEO of META Community Group (2021); Board member of the Korea Art Association, Seoul (2010); Advisor of Visual Information Design Association of Korea (2022); President, Founder BIPB International Poster Art Biennale (2021).