Ruan Xin is Dean of the School of Design and Guangqi Chair Professor of Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
Calculation is design, design is calculation, so I say this is one"Make a living"The thing that it has symbolism, which is to belong"Words are written"Putting these two points together is design thinking.
This light has a sense of volume and texture, this is the light in the 17th century Dutch painting, this light comes in and diffuses the light through a receiver, there are only a few direct lights, just like the ancient Chinese sundial, walking layer by layer, looking out of the atrium is a different scene.
The matter of returning to China was actually not well thought out, everything was a coincidence, and 5 years passed in a flash, and I think these points are actually very interesting to look back on.
The first point is that the development of Jiao Tong University to this extent is due to a period of primitive accumulation and long-term accumulation, and it has taken a step forward in the journey to become a world-class university and a top university.
Since the establishment of the School of Design, it has called it new"The old college, because these disciplines originally exist in other colleges of Jiaotong University, is the development and utilization of urban architecture, landscape architecture, ecology, and plant resources to visual communication, art design, industrial design, industrial design, including intelligent manufacturing, and it is called generalized design.
The second point, I think it's called design in general, and when I first came here, I had a very difficult task of defining what design is. First of all, I said that design is a craft, but design should be a craft that intoxicates life, it adds color to life.
I recently had a good discussion with Shao Junfeng, the chief designer of SAIC, for example, about 80% of the design of a car is technical work, but what is this 20% or even 10%.It's the best part of car design, it's the artists and designers.
From this point of view, I think the same is true of architectural design, some schools train 60% to 80% of technical talents, but should we do this at Jiao Tong University?I don't think so, we're going to do 20% and 10%. We say that we cultivate academic masters, cultural elites, industry leaders, and statecraft.
I recently wrote an article on design thinking called:"Make a living"with"Words are written"Two things. What are the aspects of design thinking if we look at it today?It may be a kind of general education that cultivates people in our time, and it is a kind of rational thinking.
If you're going to design a spoon and you're going to solve this problem, drink soup and eat, and you think of having a small bowl with a handle and solve the problem, it's a rational mind, you can reason out step by step, calculation is design, design is calculation. So I say this is one"Make a living"things and why it is"Words are written"？After making this spoon, through rationality (analysis) and calculation, it was found that the cultural and social life of the spoon was very complex, and the use of gold and silver to make it was different from that of bamboo and wood.
Therefore, it will be said that a person is born from a prominent background and is born with a silver spoon in his mouth, it has symbolic meaning, which is a matter of rhetoric, and these two points together are design thinking.
The longer I live abroad, the more I find common ground, and the more we can talk and communicate on the basis of common ground. Recently, at the Venice Biennale International Architecture Exhibition, I curated the China Pavilion, and the first thing I did was to design the exhibition. The exhibition design is first and foremost an expression of tribute and dialogue with the city of Venice.
Walking into the colonnade, there should be a feeling of walking through the streets and alleys, the deep streets and alleys of the buildings in the city. The first is to get you started reading the story, and with this hint you come back later by strolling, you can choose to look at this and that, or come across by chance.
The difference between Chinese art and Western art, Chinese architecture and Western architecture, Chinese cities and Western cities, is the differenceThere are commonalities, all you look at are architectural models, they are all buildings, and the slight difference is here, so the process of viewing the exhibition is a process of reading.
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