From the Fashionable World to the New Communities

Artist list

JiChang Chai, Zhiwei Gong, Hao Hu, Kerr Hu, Zheng Qin, Jie Sun, MIngyan Sun, Qian Wang, Jun Xie, Fan Ye, Queenie Yuan, Andy Yuk, Xiaochuan Zhang, Tina Zhao, Yi Zhao

Indeed, design in contemporary context is not only about solving problems either social, aesthetic or functional, but, it thrives on imagination and aims to open up new perspectives on what are sometimes called wicked problems, to create spaces for discussion and debate about alternative ways of being, to inspire and encourage people's imaginations to flow freely. Jewelry is a mirror of how 'value' is perceived in a specific social and cultural context. Tongji D&I presents a group of outstanding works, to show that contemporary jewelry and fashion can be spectacular, radical, critical, conceptual, and act as a catalyst for collectively redefining our relationship within communities to reality, offers a specific view of design, art and innovation, and gives new meaning and possibilities to fashion and design development.

Coordinators: Ms. Yan Chan, Ms. Tina Zhao.
Exhibition Designer: Tzu-jung Lee.
Graphic Designer: Eager Zhang.
Workshop Participants: Tzu-Jung Lee, Yuzhou Wei, Ningxin Ww, Danlin Zhang.



Who is D&I？
Message from Dean Prof. Yongqi Lou
D&I is built on three pillars: inclusive diversity (兼容并包), innovative foresight (领异标新), and conscientious activism (知行相资). We put into practice our motto: to learn and create, for a meaningful life and a better world.
Voices from D&I Faculties
D&I is a place for collected energy, like a beehive. It’s a place where you can test your crazy ideas and bring them alive.
- Kaja Tooming Buchanan (USA), Professor, Experience Design Research
"Innovation" isn't just a word in the College's name--it describes the school's open-ended, no-fear approach to everything it does.
- Aric Chen (USA), Professor of Practice.
It’s a community stimulating dialogue so new generations can shape meaningful ways of living.
- Aldo Cibic (Italy), Professor, Design Practice.
D&I initiated the first AI & Data Design program in the country, gathering talents in both design practice and computer science to cultivate new generations of designers.
- Nan Cao, Professor, Big Data and Visualization.
If there’s one design school in the world that sees how design meets data and machine learning, it would be D&I.
- Ling Fan, Director, AI and Design Lab.
D&I represents openness with a clear vision; constant, fearless challenging; great leadership and amazing influence in today’s China projecting into tomorrow’s world.
- Hyejin Lee (Korea), Associate Professor of Practice.
Even if its name is straightforward in capturing the school’s aspirations, D&I always amazes me through the manifold forms of design-driven innovation that it dares to initiate.
- Jin Ma, Managing Editor of She Ji, the Journal of Design, Economics and Innovation.
Design, China, and AI are the future. D&I harmonizes them all. After teaching at Harvard, I found D&I to be the best.
- Kostas Terzidis (USA/Greece), Professor, Design & Algorithm.
D&I is a great place for great minds getting together, and D&I is a hot spot for interesting things to happen!
- Min Wang, Professor, Branding Design.


 
About College of Design and Innovation, Tongji University
The College of Design and Innovation (D&I) was established in 2009 at Tongji University, Shanghai, one of China’s leading institutions of higher learning with a history dating to 1907. Design education was first introduced at Tongji in the 1940s, with a curriculum heavily influenced by the Bauhaus. Design was taught under the umbrella of architecture and urban planning until the founding of D&I, which now has campuses in Shanghai and Shenzhen.
D&I has 9 programs at the undergraduate, masters and PhD levels: Industrial Design, Environmental Design, Media and Communication Design, Product Service System Design, Interaction Design, Design Strategy and Management, AI and Data Design, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, and Design History and Theory.

New Center of Contemporary Jewellery and Fashion Culture (NoCC) 
NoCC is an international think tank, the only of its kind in China under the subject, to unite the powerful resources of the university and the contemporary design and art community. Built on the scholarly and institutional resources of the D&I Tongji University, it not only contributes to Master’s programs and disciplines on Contemporary Jewellery and Fashion Design, but also explores the practice, culture, industry and management from cultural, educational and research perspectives, It aims to develop creative leadership in the cultural entrepreneurs.