A “big coffee” forum focusing on the future development of my country’s design disciplines and a forum that leads fashion trends Fashion shows, creative markets sought after by many young people, art exhibitions that combine cultural collision and integration, and the inspiring Yangtze River Delta Design Subject Party Building University Alliance development initiative… On April 22, at Donghua University in Yan’an Road campus, university professors, senior scholars, heavyweight industry leaders, well-known designers, brand entrepreneurs and other top design and fashion forces at home and abroad gathered together to participate in a “rapid brainstorming” + “visual feast”. birthday party”.
With the clarion call for the development and opening up of Pudong, the ninth century In Shanghai in the early 1900s, spring was surging and flowers were blooming everywhere. Thirty years ago, the School of Fashion and Art Design of Donghua University (then known as the School of Fashion, China Textile University) responded to the needs of the people for a better life and served the needs of the development of the industrial economy And born. In 1982, the “Textile Design Major” was opened, followed by the clothing engineering major and the arts and crafts major. In 1993, the “College of Fashion” was established, becoming the earliest second-level clothing college among universities in the country. In 2015, it was named “Donghua University Fashion College”. and the School of Art and Design.” Over the past thirty years, with a high sense of historical mission and social responsibility, the college has cultivated a large number of outstanding talents for the national clothing and apparel industry and fashion creative industries.
Symbiosis·Design Mission
How to establish a new model of Chinese design and oriental fashion? What opportunities and challenges does the fashion industry face? Where will my country’s design discipline go? What impact will artificial intelligence have on design development? At a series of events celebrating the 30th anniversary of the School of Fashion and Art Design of Donghua University, Zhao Feng, professor of Donghua University and honorary director of the China Silk Museum, and former Nanjing Institute of the Arts Four distinguished visiting professors, including Vice President and Professor Zhan Heping, Party Secretary and Professor Huang Xinyuan of the School of Animation and Digital Art at Communication University of China, and Qian Qier, Professor of the China Academy of Art, shared their thoughts and insights on “Fashion Journey·Design Mission” , “the characteristic development of the discipline” has become a “keyword” that many experts agree on.
At the photo exhibition of the development history of the college, the college was displayed through light and shadow The development history of the clothing discipline from its inception to the present. Many alumni stopped in front of a slightly yellowed old photo. The photo was of Professor Zhang Weiyuan from the School of Fashion Technology and the astronauts Jing Haipeng, Zhai Zhigang and Liu Boming of the “Shenzhou 7” manned mission. This photo bears the mark of time. The “Light and Shadow” also records the inheritance and innovation of this team. With the current construction of China’s space station, astronauts “business trips” in space have become the norm. In the early 1990s, Donghua began to consider the “dressing issue” of astronauts. From the “sweating” warm body dummy system developed by Professor Zhang Weiyuan’s team of the School of Fashion Technology to the full range of special clothing for Chinese astronauts designed and developed by the astronaut clothing R&D and design team headed by Professor Li Jun, each of these achievements They are all nurtured by the college’s focus on subject characteristics and the interdisciplinary system of “fashion design + clothing technology”.
”Beautiful College, Fashion Master” is Donghua’s “Service College” People’s pursuit and vision. Currently, the “Thirty-Elite” college is responsible for the construction of the world-class discipline “Modern Textile Science and Engineering” and the research direction “Clothing Technology and Fashion Design”. In the field of art and engineering, the college has doctoral degree authorization points for the first-level discipline of “Design” and doctoral degree authorization points for the second-level discipline of “Fashion Design and Engineering”, including clothing design, digital media art, visual communication design, product design, There are 10 fashion design-related majors (directions) in national first-class undergraduate majors such as environmental design. It is currently the most complete university in Shanghai with a design discipline system.55, 255, 255);”>Inheritance·Born for “beauty”
Release of cutting-edge Donghua design works, postgraduate clothing and apparel innovation design competition, exhibition of works of the intangible inheritance Pudong homespun industry-university-research base… The 30th anniversary of the establishment of the college coincides with the 20th Donghua Fashion Week, with performances and exhibitions , creative market and other fashion design activities, Fashion Week has become a “fashion business card” of Donghua and even Shanghai. For more than 20 years, it has continued to host the “Shanghai International Fashion Culture Festival International Fashion Forum” and passed 1,235 forums Hexiuyan showcased and promoted Chinese fashion design, released “Shanghai Fashion” fashion trends for 13 consecutive times, and held 125 fashion and creative cross-border salons and forums…a series of Behind the numbers is the shining past and profound heritage of “Eastern China Fashion Week”, which plays an important role in improving the status of fashion education in the fashion industry, better exerting cultural value through design, and enhancing Shanghai and China’s fashion voice.
Over the past thirty years, the School of Fashion and Art Design of Donghua University has always taken root Based on the profound heritage of Chinese civilization, we integrate the development of disciplines into the development needs of the country and local areas, give full play to the discipline characteristics and advantages in the field of fashion science and technology, and are committed to building a better life for the people. We develop and design “technology + fashion” astronaut clothing to establish a New image of Chinese astronauts; “Baicai” costumes for the World Expo show youthful style and record the rapid development of Pudong; intangible cultural heritage projects incorporate fashion elements to promote the protection and inheritance of intangible cultural heritage; promote Shanghai’s joint renovation, preside over the compilation of China’s first “urban furniture” “National standards to help the people’s urban construction; “The Complete Collection of Dunhuang Silk Art”, a masterpiece of historical materials that took 15 years of systematic research and study, is the “One Belt and One Road” research important achievements in the field; was selected as the fashion institution’s annual achievement in the “2021 China Fashion Festival” for its outstanding strength and contribution in the field of fashion design; participated in the first World Design Capital Conference in 2022 (WDCC 2022) and provided important support to the conference…
Flowers, water drops, fountains and rainbows… “suspended” in The huge “Super Fashion Ring” Yuan Yuan Exhibition above the Yan’an Road Campus of Donghua University is a digital scene performance practice for the entire fashion discipline chain, embodying the pursuit of “beauty” by the people of Donghua University. Looking back on the present, the 30th anniversary of the School of Fashion and Art Design of Donghua University is not only a milestone in the development of the school, but also a new starting point for the school’s continued progress. As a university directly under the Ministry of Education, a national “211 Project”, and a national “Double First-Class” construction university, Donghua University enjoys a high social reputation in the fields of textiles, materials and design. The school will continue to strengthen the construction of design disciplines, participate in the construction of peak disciplines in Shanghai universities, promote the integration of design concepts and design services into national and local industrial development, spatial environment, public services, people’s lives, city brands and other dimensions, and become Shanghai’s design capital and fashion city. The capital construction contributes “Donghua Power” and “Donghua Wisdom” and strives to create the source of design and fashion in Shanghai, China and the world.
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