SFD Was Accredited by the China Industrial Design Association Innovative Design Institute!

In November 2022, the Sixth World Industrial Design Conference was held in Yantai, Shandong, and the Awarding Ceremony of the first batch of accredited units by the China Industrial Design Association Innovative Design Institute was held at the same time.

The School of Future Design of Beijing Normal University was accredited by the China Industrial Design Association Innovative Design Institute in the field of “future production and lifestyle research”.

It is reported that the China Industrial Design Association Innovation Design Institute identified different units by profession and field. The first batch of 81 units were accredited, covering aerospace equipment, automotive, transportation, military security equipment, artificial intelligence, electronic information, home appliances, Internet of Things, medical health, and design services. The identification will give full play to the role of demonstration of design innovation in various industries to lead, and further strengthen the construction of China's design innovation system.

The China Industrial Design Association Innovation Design Institute is committed to promoting the high-level, high-quality, holistic and systematic development of the industry, creating a basic resource and innovation platform for industrial design, establishing an industrial design industry empowerment system, an innovation service system, a whole industry chain integration innovation system and a whole life cycle ecological system, cultivating a number of global leading innovation design institutes in a number of key and emerging areas, building an innovation design ecology with solid foundation, active innovation, open collaboration and green development, and forming a 100 billion dollar scale of innovation design incubation and market application.

Based on the existing advantageous disciplines of Beijing Normal University, the School of Future Design of Beijing Normal University is rooted in the intersection of art, science and technology, and education, carrying out research and extensive cross-border cooperation in humanities, art, design, science and technology, and social sciences, as well as the integration of research, education, and practice, forming a teaching characterized by complementary disciplines, problem-driven, and project-oriented, establishing three research directions, including Design and Future Production&Lifestyles, Art and Technology, and Design and Education. The school aims at cultivating complex and innovative talents with professionalism, professional frontier vision, comprehensive analytical ability and scientific and humanistic concepts, and providing pioneering practice for the exploratory development of the design industry.