PREVIEW | PAN-TONGJI DESIGN WEEK 2021
Pan-Tongji Design Week 2021
A New Landscape
2021丨11.27-12.31
China finds itself at a historic crossroads. The coming century of its advancement, and its place on the world stage, will depend primarily on our attitude toward growth. At stake is how well we adapt to new growth strategies, implement bold new plans, develop new growth patterns, and promote high-quality development, all in the name of the public good. With these impending challenges, the role of design takes on an unprecedented relevance. At the same time, the challenges for design have become enormously complex and unpredictable. Using design to explore problems and implement solutions is essential, such as when seeking useful applications of cutting-edge technologies for human ends. And yet it seems that what is in fashion is to enthusiastically conjure up fantastical, often unrealistic plans for humanity’s future. Somewhere between these two extremes lies a truer and more profound place for design in the 21st century.
Although the coronavirus pandemic is still ravaging the world, this crisis will eventually subside; new patterns are already taking form, and now design must cope with these seismic shifts. Big data, artificial intelligence, advanced manufacturing, and green technologies promise important development opportunities for design-led industrial upgrading as well as for urban transformation. Human beings’ unique capability to design now becomes a collective intelligence integrating humans with the machine world. In order to alleviate the tensions between humanity and nature, and to reverse the estrangement between individual and community, we must embrace a design ethic that emphasizes symbiotic configurations of community, the commons, and property. Meeting deadlines for peak carbon and carbon neutrality cannot be separated from the task of uniting to build a framework of design strategies and actions aimed at preserving communities of life on Earth. Shanghai is currently making every effort to create a model of the “design-driven city.” Maintaining high-quality sustainable development in Shanghai calls for the methods, tools, and practices of complex systems design.
Tongji Design Week 2021 will join hands with Shanghai Design Week to promote the construction of a world-class “design city.” This year’s theme is “A New Landscape,” and the Yangpu Riverbank — where in 2019 President Xi Jinping introduced the important concept of a “People’s City” — is the main venue. Together with the Tongji Knowledge Economy Circle and the Design Industry Cluster Initiative, the program will include more than 30 stimulating activities including forums, exhibitions, lectures, and workshops. As the program’s core academic activity, the 2021 “Emerging Practices” Design Research and Education Conference (EPC 2021) will celebrate its tenth anniversary. This conference will focus on exploring how design research and design education can transcend the differences between the design and other disciplines and propose future-oriented co-evolutionary initiatives.
Tongji Design Week 2021 will be held in December in four locations: the Shanghai Exhibition Center (Friendship Hall), Yangpu Binjiang South (in Yangpu’s historic Hemp Warehouse), Siping Road 1028 (NICE 2035), and also at Tongji University’s School of Design and Innovation.
+ Programs
+ Forums & Conferences
The 4th Daily Life and Design History Forum
- Time：11.27
- Location：Darkroom, College of Design and Innovation. (No.281 Fuxin Rd)
Since the late 20th century, the concept of daily life history has expanded from social history and cultural history to the field of design history, and the self-reflection consciousness that regards daily life as a transformation approach to design history has become increasingly significant. Taking daily life as the theoretical guidance and research object will help to promote the cross-study of design history and history itself, enhance the character of history, innovate the methods of history, and promote the in-depth understanding of the essence of design history, restore the deep connection between daily life and design history, form a new paradigm for design history research.
Empowering Industries Development through Design Forum
- Time：12.18 a.m.
- Location：3F, Friendship Hall, Shanghai Exhibition Center (N0.1000 Middle Yan'an Rd)
Interdisciplinary Convergence—CDD&I Launching Ceremony and CDI 10th Anniversary Celebration
- Time：12.18 p.m.
- Location：Maoma Warehouse, Yangpu Riverside (No.32 Qinghuangdao Rd)
- Host：College of Design and Innovation, Tongji University
How can interdisciplinary research and innovative design drive digital transformation, and empower industrial upgrading? On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Center for Digital Innovation (CDI) of Tongji University, we bring together top scientists and scholars to open a dialogue in their cutting-edge research fields, to celebrate the establishment of Tongji-MIT Center for Digital Design & Innovation (CDD&I) and to look forward to CDI's next decade based on the CDD&I platform.
Tenth Annual “Emerging Practices” Design Research and Education Conference (EPC 2021)
- Time：12.19
- Location：Maoma Warehouse, Yangpu Riverside (No.32 Qinghuangdao Rd)
- Host：College of Design and Innovation, Tongji University
“Change” is an intrinsic aspect of the practice of design. Design’s essential role is to actively deal with change in the world. New design issues, concepts, practices, tools, and techniques are constantly emerging in response to the constantly changing socio-economic-technical-environmental conditions. Today, we face “the vicissitudes of the coronavirus and the associated problems with economic recovery,” as well as “regional revitalization,” “peak carbon emissions and carbon neutrality”—and many other new missions. These are challenges for which design must resolutely respond and pursue change.
More than 30 years ago, design researchers borrowed from traditional evolutionary theory in biology, and what ultimately emerged was the concept of design co-evolutionary. With this formula, the design process considers both problem space and solution space as following concurrent and interactive progress in their mutual development. “Co-evolution” does not merely explain the organic interactions between inquirer and his or her environment during the design process as problem solving; it also reveals qualities of resilience and the powers of transformation as these interactions unfold.
The question is, how can design adapt to the radically changing world, perpetually transforming itself as it transforms the world around it? For design practice, research, and education, we can adapt the above evolutionary frame to a related question: what are the designated trajectories of these three co-evolving subfields? We are concerned with how design will interact with other disciplines to forge new shared paths for knowledge production, intersection, and integration; how innovation in design can enable synergies with innovation in science and technology, culture and art, and business, so as to give greater meaning to the very concept of innovation; how the design industry might assist the manufacturing and service sectors in their transformation and upgrading processes, in order to help bring forth emerging industries; how the training ecosystem in design education might shape future talent, while also attending to its own self-improvement. It is quite irrelevant who among the stakeholders will drive and who will be driven; instead, the program must be, once again, a “co-evolution”: one of reciprocal coordination, interactive feedback, codevelopment—and common progress.
Working Conference of the State Council Discipline Assessment Committee for Design
- Time：12.19 p.m.
- Location：Maoma Warehouse, Yangpu Riverside (No.32 Qinghuangdao Rd)
The 3rd Digital Conservation and Innovation Symposium for Art and Cultural Heritage
- Time：12.21 p.m.
- Location：Aquarium Lecture Hall, College of Design and Innovation, Tongji University/ Online
We hope to revisit this "old school" topic from different perspectives such as art and science, tradition and fashion, virtuality and reality, industry and academia. As an essential part of Tongji Design Week, we will provide simultaneous interpretation and online live broadcasts, hope this event will become a stage for mutual learning and discussion for cutting-edge artists and researchers in this field.
2021 Design Science Knowledge Graph Research Seminar
- Time：12.22
- Location：Online
Digital Creation Forum
- Time：12.22 p.m.
- Location：Maoma Warehouse, Yangpu Riverside (No.32 Qinghuangdao Rd)
“Can machines think?”It is the question that Turing alluded to in 1950 when talking about machine intelligence, and it comes back again when we talk about AI art. Nowadays, machine has become an indispensable element both in design and production. Then how machine and thinking is represented in digital design and art? This panel talk will discuss the visual creativity of machine from the input and output level, exploring the possibility of machine’s creativity in the future.
1. Data and digital creation
Data is a significant component of artificial intelligence. When training AI, programmers need to feed huge amount of data to a specific neural network. The training data is controllable as human can define its boundary. However, it is also uncontrollable in that the sample size is too large for human beings to scrutinize. Data is thus the “food” for neural network to help it approach the goal gradually in the process of learning and imitating. In this section, we will investigate the significance of big data to digital design — how it helps and controls data visualization, and how digital design innovates based on big data.
2. The logic of digital creation
Nature has its own rules for things, which is not only the law of universe, but also the logic of scientific thinking. Humans use mathematics to interpret laws of nature and realize more complex logic through machines. The creation of machine is the third form of creation besides artifacts and natural beings. Digital design, based on the strong mathematic logic, has the power of evolution, and it can evolve endlessly as nature. This panel will talk about digital creation under human-machine cooperation, and explore the development model in the future.
The 1st Tongji Innovation Design and Intelligent Manufacture Summit
- Time：12.23
- Location：Lecture hall, Yifu Building, Tongji University
- Host：College of Design and Innovation, Tongji University
With the deepening of the "Double First-class" construction of the Ministry of Education, Tongji University has made every effort to promote the construction of discipline groups. Among them, based on the construction of "World First-class Discipline" of design, 10 disciplines of Tongji University participate in the joint construction of "the discipline group of innovation design and intelligente manufacturing". In this context, the First Tongji Innovation Design and Intelligent Manufacturing Summit (IDIM2021) will be held in Tongji University on December 23, 2021. Facing major national development strategies, this summit will focus on high-quality development and digital transformation of manufacturing industry, share interdisciplinary researches and projects from 11 disciplines, and talk about a new talent training mechanism of "Design Driven Innovation".
The High-End Forum on the 2nd Shanghai Design and on the 2nd Writing of the Modern Design History of China
- Time：12.24
- Location：Darkroom, College of Design and Innovation. No.281 Fuxin Rd)
- Host：College of Design and Innovation, Tongji University
Based in Shanghai, with a global perspective; serving Shanghai, doing well in China and leading the world; inheriting the quality of Shanghai design and recasting the Chinese design brand; actively promoting the effective inheritance and pioneering innovation of Chinese contemporary design. “Shanghai Design” not only marks the regional characteristics of Shanghai, but also embodies the journey of Chinese design towards modernity, and shows the window or gateway of Chinese design to the world and its important crystallisation. How should “Shanghai Design” be approached, explored, studied and extended as an ephemeral and co-occurring research topic? To this end, it has been decided that “The 2nd Shanghai Design Forum and the 2nd High-End Writing Seminar on the Modern History of Chinese Design” will be held at Tongji University on 24 December 2021. The forum will focus on Shanghai design and the research and teaching of contemporary Chinese design history, aiming to make theoretical research serve the in-depth development of contemporary Chinese design practice and design education activities, and work towards the construction of a theoretical system of contemporary Chinese design education.
New Placemaking——Sino British Community Renewal Design Forum
- Time：12.25
- Location：Maoma Warehouse, Yangpu Riverside (No.32 Qinghuangdao Rd)
- Host：College of Design and Innovation, Tongji University
The creative economy sector has shown more practical significance and core value when both China and the UK are experiencing rapid growth and economic prosperity. China’s “13th Five-Year Plan” has brought new opportunities for Sino-British cooperation. The key outcomes of the research, creation and innovation between China and the UK regarding the role of creative economy in urban regeneration will become one essential part of improving the soft power of the nation.
With this background, supported by College of design & Innovation, Tongji University and Newton Fund, this forum will explore how participatory design can play a role in the regeneration of old communities? How can new technologies help us build a smarter community? How can design thinking exert its innovative power in community construction? Etc.
We hope to explore new knowledge concepts and provide a new dialogue platform for the establishment of interdisciplinary research networks and innovative partnerships.
Enhancement of Experience—Sensitive Design and Intelligent Interactive Environment Design
- Time：12.26
- Location：Online
- Host：College of Design and Innovation, Tongji University
Experience design comes with the experience economy, and after experiencing the economy following agriculture, industry and service industry, it is the product of the development of the consumer market to a certain stage. The role of design in the experience of the economic era is more important than ever. So how does the experience design work? How to maximize the value of the environment and the user of the experience by design, thereby maximizing the value of the design itself? Experience design creates a new economic explosion.
The forum practices environmental design from the perspective of experience, discusses and proposes the theme vision of “Elevation of Experience – Design of Sensitive Design and Big Data Intelligent Interaction Environment”. The seminar is constructed by a multidisciplinary approach, interdisciplinary practice and experts will Provides a multi-level design vision. The focus will be on problem-oriented linking of art, design, technology, and the “scenario” of interdisciplinary research to enhance design. The conference will explore the role that design can play in promoting a new environmental future, with a focus on intimate relationships between people and space and sustainable spatial re-engineering, intelligent spatial experience, and data-driven community space optimization. The content of the smart tool system. Co-examine the state and direction of design in this transitional era, challenge the interactive design of environmental space in the context of experiential design, and reflect on the new attributes, new roles and new culture of design.
The 6th FAB LAB Asia Annual Meeting
- Time：12.27-28
- Location：Maoma Warehouse, Yangpu Riverside (No.32 Qinghuangdao Rd)
- Host：College of Design and Innovation, Tongji University、FAB LAB
Fablab STEAM teaching system integrates design thinking into the process of solving real problems, enables students to learn actively, cultivate the ability of interdisciplinary comprehensive migration practice to solve the real world, stimulate students' desire for independent innovation and active learning, and promote the comprehensive improvement of students' social responsibility, empathy, speech ability and other
comprehensive qualities. A set of systematic courses of steam education Cheng, taking design thinking as the core logic and project-based learning as the main teaching method, organically integrates painting, music and humanities with cutting-edge technologies such as 3D printing, laser cutting, artificial intelligence and VR /AR, so as to develop "learning by doing". With the development in recent years, Fablab has gradually formed an Asian network. For different research contents: zero pollution theme, beautiful ocean, recycling of plastic waste and so on, 16 Fablabs all over Asia share their work achievements at the annual meeting, learn from each other and achieve information sharing. Fablab is settling down and growing up in Tongji University, it complements the inclusive and dynamic style of the school of design and creativity, and injects fresh blood into design and innovation. The meeting will produce a summary report of expert speeches and form a paper. The paper combines PBL (project-based learning) with the development of global steam education and China's steam education practice and design thinking will play a certain role in enriching the phased theoretical achievements.
In the era of intelligence, future oriented education breaks the gap between disciplines and the fence of the school, regards the world as a classroom, and "4C ability", that is, critical thinking, communication ability, collaboration ability, innovation and creativity. As the four abilities necessary for talents in the 21st century, it points out the direction for cultivating talents needed for future social development. STEAM education is an innovative educational concept and measure to explore talent training in the 21st century. It is a whole person education that advocates lifelong learning. It emphasizes breaking the discipline boundary, not being limited by the major, using multi-disciplinary knowledge to solve problems in real life situations, and cultivating students' comprehensive quality in this process. The connotation of steam education coincides with the training requirements of "4C ability", and has become an important educational carrier for the training of "4C ability" in the intelligent era. The meeting will discuss in depth the framework construction and mechanism development of steam education. Under the guidance of "a/Art", explore the perfect combination of Pan Art, humanities and science, technology, engineering and mathematics, construct the top-level framework and thinking logic innovation of steam based on design thinking and project-based learning PBL, and explore new ways of steam education. At the same time, it makes an in-depth discussion on key issues such as teacher construction, platform construction, international trend and localization, standardization and personalization, urban-rural differences and so on.
+ Exhibition & Competition
Sentience——The Shape of Sound
- Time：11.27-12.5
- Location：West Bund Dome（No. 2350, Longteng Rd）
This is an era for mass media with multi-dimensional sensory experience. Through technology, we can gradually excavate the diversity of things from different perspectives. After breaking the original cognition, new experiences come one after another.
The invisible sound is captured by designers. Through algorithmic design, visual art, media design and interaction design, combined with intelligent manufacturing, designers can transform audible contents into visual aesthetics when breaking the boundary of sensibility. In the exhibition, we used algorithms to interpret the morphological aesthetics of sound waves.
The exhibition is curated by Sound Lab from College of Design and Innovation (D&I) Tongji University.
The invisible sound is captured by designers. Through algorithmic design, visual art, media design and interaction design, combined with intelligent manufacturing, designers can transform audible contents into visual aesthetics when breaking the boundary of sensibility. In the exhibition, we used algorithms to interpret the morphological aesthetics of sound waves.
The exhibition is curated by Sound Lab from College of Design and Innovation (D&I) Tongji University.
7 scenarios for Neighborhood of care
- Time：12.10-12.20
- Location：Community Neighborhood Center, Fuxin Rd
The exhibition aims to exhibit 7 service design scenarios, developed by D&I postgraduate students through the course ‘PSSD methodologies and tools’, to local residents of Siping neighborhood. The service scenarios were developed based on insights gained from field research in the neighborhood and interviews with local stakeholders and residents, with an intention to propose new service concepts to better take care of vulnerable groups in the neighborhood, ranging from the elderly to mentally challenged. The exhibition intends to share the students’ ideas with the local stakeholders and residents, and create an opportunity to learn their opinions.
Being Home Shine Shanghai Exhibition
- Time：12.12-22.01.13
- Location：Cheng Art Museum
- Host：College of Design and Innovation, Tongji University
「Being Home」
Zhai（宅）, as a verb, is dwelling.
Zhai（宅）, as a noun, is home.
Zhai（宅）, as an adjective, is being at home
Zhai has been widely discussed as a subculture in recent years. In 2020, Zhai has become a must instead of a choice because of the COVID-19 pandemic. When Zhai has become the collective experience instead of “busy running out”, many designers start to think about
how to redefine and establish “Zhai” from a more positive point of view.
From the beginning of 2020, in addition to the exiting meaning, Zhai has been used to describe the status of being at home, and the interpretation of its connotation has never been so creative.
With all the meaning of Zhai, the concept of Jia (home, family) is always the centre and core. While it might appear as Zhai, family, home, loved ones, furniture, or even the creation at home are actually behind it.
The redefined Zhai is no longer just about objects or space, but has become a relationship between people and people or objects, a way of thinking, or a collective memory.
The pandemic will be over someday, but there will never be an end to the exploring aboutZhai. Zhai will always be with us as long as home is. Design for Zhai is actually design for home and family.
My Home, My Material
- Time：12.16-12.31
- Location：Maoma Warehouse, Yangpu Riverside (No.32 Qinghuangdao Rd)
- Host：College of Design and Innovation, Tongji University
「My Home, My Material」 is the material design exhibition based on different culture element of each students hometown. With the support of rhino mold and fast modeling process, students can realize their vivid and limitless imagination product’s CMF with uniformed figure.
Difference of region in china gives variety culture element for inspiration, support the creative designs and sharing the culture confidence.
Indigo Shades
- Time：12.16-12.31
- Location：Maoma Warehouse, Yangpu Riverside (No.32 Qinghuangdao Rd)
Using an ancient photographic technique whose principal materials are sun rays and water, this exhibition explores a journey beyond materiality. Landscapes, objects, places, and natural elements are represented with less interest for their forms and structure, and a more deep, gentle observation of immaterial and fantastic properties.
In this exhibition, you will have the opportunity to immerse yourself in a unique and unusual way in that liminal space between reality and fantasy.
Design, Nature, and the Pluriverse
- Time：12.16-12.31
- Location：Maoma Warehouse, Yangpu Riverside (No.32 Qinghuangdao Rd)
What does it mean to design for all forms of life, not just human life? In Design, Nature & The Pluriverse exhibition, we showcase design projects that reconnect humans with Nature in unexpected ways: moss, plants, mushrooms, birds, soil, rocks, magnetism, fire… Many visible and invisible structures and behaviors of Nature become not only design inspirations, they are the outcomes of a dialogue between creativity and ecology.
Amid different installations and artworks, a forum (date TBC) will explore live questions: what does ‘deep ecology’ mean for design? Does nature belong in the city, or in nature reserves? How can Nature reframe our creative purposes?
Welcome to join online and offline.
Final Joint Report and Exhibition of Studio3 Course（a Five-university Consortium based on Shanghai Design Category IV Peak Discipline）
- Time：12.16-12.31
- Location：Maoma Warehouse, Yangpu Riverside (No.32 Qinghuangdao Rd)
As a traditional course in College of Design and Innovation of Tongji University, Studio3 for postgraduate students is the practical application of the three-dimensional T-shaped talent training model. Students from the undergraduate level of the vertical to the major study, gradually transition to the horizontal cross-professional study; students can pass the real test of real market immersion in the real market, under the guidance of senior instructors inside and outside the school, conform to the Chinese and foreign international teaching environment, real in the global market Practice in the scene is designed to drive innovation; the course takes into account industrial design, interaction design, environmental design and other directions, to create cross-scale design principles, from products to interiors to interactions to communities, and deeply inject business thinking such as brand strategic investment to realize commercial design technology Fusion.
Focused on HuaiHai Road renewal, Studio3 aims to conduct research on the product system from aspects of food, clothing, accommodation, and transportation in future scenarios. Cooperating with teachers and students from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Politecnico di Milano, Aalto University, University of East London, Université de Guyane, CUMULUS, the International Association of Universities and Colleges of Art, Design and Media, as well as teachers and students from universities and colleges of Shanghai Type IV Peak Plateau Disciplines of Design, Studio3 will conduct relevant teaching activities including online and offline workshops, lectures, field research, and construction proofing.
In the Light of Design：Sino-Franco Design Show
- Time：to be confirmed
- Location：Central Hall, Friendship Hall, Shanghai Exhibition Center (N0.1000 Middle Yan'an Rd)
Light is energy, it is the most infectious power sensuous, just as design charging and enrich variety industrial, as a soft power. Design is no longer a mysterious profession, but becomes the leading power of variety industry and country.
Launched by the two platform Shanghai Design Week and Maison & Objet in Paris, joined with Pan Tongji Design Week and St.Etienne International Art and Design Biennale, the Sino-Franco Design Exhibition present the up-to-date object, project and designers.
Through the selected exhibits, the theme of the curation is to present the energy of design, comes from its never-stop self-evolution nature.
Dream Big
- Time：12.17-12.31
- Location：Maoma Warehouse, Yangpu Riverside (No.32 Qinghuangdao Rd)
The product is the micro building in the system, and the building is the mega product in the space. In the design of footbridge, it not only faces the restrictions and challenges from traffic, weather, passers-by and shipping, but also gathers the technical discourse of structural engineering, architecture and design. The exhibition conceals the identity of the participating designers and presents the design tools and methods behind the footbridge prototype, the design logic and strategy of interaction and symbiosis with the site, as well as the structural mechanics that challenges the impossible. The exhibition hopes to show the evolution behind these prototype footbridges, looking for traces of the crossover chemistry.
Recycle Coffee Ground Panel Design Application Exhibition
- Time：12.16-12.31
- Location：Maoma Warehouse, Yangpu Riverside (No.32 Qinghuangdao Rd)
- Host：College of Design and Innovation, Tongji University、Covestro（China）
D&I joining Covestro and Starbucks to host a design workshop based on recycles coffee ground panel. D&I will provide fast modeling and numerical manufacturing in the innovation field to assist the invited designers. This workshop will be held on the 10th Nov.
The exhibition will present the design objects from the workshop in Starbucks Coffee in the middle of December. Through the design workshop and exhibition organized by M&AD, D&I will be the place of origin for the sustainable material innovation and application.
Design with X–Intelligent Design Support System DEMO
- Time：12.20-12.31
- Location：Maoma Warehouse, Yangpu Riverside (No.32 Qinghuangdao Rd)
- Host：Tongji University-City Science Lab @ Shanghai
Cities are where most of the population growth will occur, wealth will be created, energy will be consumed, and CO2 will be generated. How cities develop over the next twenty years will largely determine our ability to address the grand societal challenges of this era, from climate change to public health. Fundamental new approaches to urban design and new high-performance systems are required.
Unfortunately, current approaches to urban design and urban infrastructure are inadequate to meet this challenge. Planning decisions that determine how hundreds of billions of dollars are deployed are made without the data and evidence needed to actually predict urban performance and complex human dynamics.
The 6th Cross-Strait Youth Maker Competition
- Time：12.30
- Location：Maoma Warehouse, Yangpu Riverside (No.32 Qinghuangdao Rd)
6th Cross-strait Maker Youth Competition 2021 is held by Association for Relations across Taiwan Straits (ARATS), undertaken by Taiwan Affairs Office of Shanghai People's Municipal Government, Tongji University, College of Design and innovation of Tongji University, and Shanghai Education center of Science and Art, and co-organized by FAB LAB of Tongji University.
Cross-strait Youth Maker Competition has been successfully held for 5 years from 2016 till 2000. The age of its participants ranging from 9 to 51, and the number has risen from 60 to thousands. This competition offers a platform for people of all levels from both sides of the strait to interact and communicate with each other.
For the past few years, Climate Change has led to more frequent natural disasters around the world. Our blue planet is facing unprecedented challenges. How can we use innovative thinking and technology to improve the current problems and achieve environmentally, economically and socially sustainable development?
Mobile Theater
- Time：Exhibition 12.20-12.31 / Forum+Roadshow 12.29
- Location：Maoma Warehouse, Yangpu Riverside (No.32 Qinghuangdao Rd)
The sudden epidemic has accelerated the digital transformation of all fields. In the past year or so, the seamless penetration of digital and intelligent technology has changed our work and life. The boundary between the world of atoms and bits is getting more and more blurry. In an era when technology is getting more and more life-like, and life is becoming more and more technical, how can we re-imagine the future mobile scenarios from the vision of industry, technology, society, economy, and humanity development? What is a better life? How to create a more sustainable future? How to cross the diversification of culture and value and create new possibilities together? The first event organized by Tongji-GAC In-curation Design Camp is taking the theme of "Mobile Theater", exploring the infinite possibilities of future mobility scenarios, where audiences and players meet together.
+ Workshop
Master the Innovation Field，a New Play Ground
- Time：12.10-12.15
- Location：No.39, lane 1028, Siping Rd
The Innovation Field at D&I will open its space and talents to showcase creative hands-on workshops at NICE 2035 to celebrate Pan-Tongji Design Week. Visitors will have the opportunities to create experimental projects to test possibilities. In this event, masters from vary disciplines will meet you, mix everything and everyone to create bold ideas in the upgraded Innovation Field setting, a new play ground for design and future making.
Future Mobility Workshop
- Time：12.5
- Location：Sino-Finnish Centre(4F, Shixun building，100 Zhangwu Rd)
- Host：College of Design and Innovation, Tongji University
Many cities around the world are already envisioning a more sustainable transportation mode in the future. Google Sidewalk Lab has built a real scene in Toronto to practice the model of the future city. Shanghai has also taken the lead in delineating the urban community of the future. Shanghai proposed the concept of a 15-minute living circle, envisioning the future of life as the acquisition of all information resources within a 15-minute walk. Some of these future prospects are very clear, and some are still in the conception stage. If we choose such a scenario, what should we do to deal with it? This workshop focused on this issue and set 2050 as a time node. 40 professionals in automotive, design, social and humanities, fashion, and culture were invited to conceive the future scenarios of transportation from their perspectives. Cooperation in the field, and propose future-oriented transportation solutions. This is a multidisciplinary collaborative collaborative workshop. It is planned to divide 40 people into 8 groups, each with 5 people from different fields.
Explore the mysteries of light and shadow - Film photography workshop
- Time：12.9-12.10
- Location：No.39, lane 1028, Siping Rd
After effect, digital animation, drawn animation, time-lapse photography, stop-motion animation…
Dazzling visual spectacle and dizzying screen effect. How film and television special effects are made? How blockbusters with film stars are shot? How commercial projects are planned and put into practice? Everything behind the scene is all in PAN-Tongji Design Week Film Photography Workshop.
This time, Light & Shadow Workshop invites well-known photographer, director and producer to share the experience, tell the story about creation, reveal hard work behind the scene and bring you to explore and practice together. At the same time, the workshop attracted students interested in traditional film shooting technology to challenge the limit of creativity and form creative ideas. Lead everyone to try film shooting, and use field equipment to carry out innovative practice from multiple dimensions of creative conception, shooting methods and post-processing, and complete some interesting film shooting and production together.
Creative of Robotic arm, Digital Fabrication and Man-machine interaction
- Time：12.10-12.21
- Location：No.39, lane 1028, Siping Rd
- Host：College of Design and Innovation, Tongji University
From manufacturer to creative work, robots are revolutionizing in various fields, and the application are more diverse. To interdisciplinary collaboration， artist and designer need embrace technology for the diversity of future.
There are two separate workshops of robotic arm, which is based on industry 4.0, and also integrates creative thinking. Workshop1: Light & Shadow interaction, interact between robotic arm projection and objects, space and scenes design, developing the application of robots in New Media Art and Design. Workshop2: 3D clay printing, control the robotic arm by 6 axion, printing special textures, creating new manufacturing methods, and combine algorithms for artistic creation.