On March 29, the second-round assessment of Beijing Normal University Future Design Seed Fund is completed. 25 finalist projects were selected by the expert jury through oral defense of each project and will be tutored and funded by the Future Design Seed Fund.
In addition, the BNU Future Design Seed Fund also invited the President of Royal College of Arts, UK to initiate a forum and training course for deans of Chinese art and design schools, hoping to promote the exchange and cooperation between Chinese and world top art and design schools.
Future Design Seed Fund Finalist (in random order)
|
No. |
Applicant |
Name of Project |
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1 |
Luo Yi |
Chinese Design Research in European And American Museums |
|
2 |
Yayoi Technology Limited |
CHAZENCE |
|
3 |
Lu Di |
Hui - Original Future Lifestyle Brand |
|
4 |
Li Fenglang |
Kitchen of the Future |
|
5 |
Yu Borou |
Translation From Dance to Music——Research and Artwork based on Labanotation and Motion Capture |
|
6 |
Chi Wei |
Future Food Trends Research and Art Concept Exhibition |
|
7 |
Dong Yuexi |
LAiVE Fonts |
|
8 |
Hu Yu |
Infinity - Biomaterials Program |
|
9 |
Li Zhen |
20 Years of New Media Art Education in China |
|
10 |
Shen Yang |
Exploration and Construction of a Future New Media Art Theory Research Centre |
|
11 |
UFO Media Lab |
EXIT |
|
12 |
Wu Zhen |
Future Performance Platform - Tomorrow Theater |
|
13 |
Jiang Tan |
The Full Illustrated Dream of the Red Chamber XR Immersive Digital Interactive Reproduction |
|
14 |
Yue Fei |
INSIGHTS - Product Device Design Based on Responsive Biochips |
|
15 |
Li Hongbo |
A Study of Art Teaching Materials for Primary and Secondary Schools in China |
|
16 |
Zhang Chi |
Innovative Research on Future-Oriented Design Education |
|
17 |
Yi Zuqiang |
Discursive Design Research |
|
18 |
ArtyBright Education |
Youth Design Thinking Education Curriculum Development Upgrade |
|
19 |
Cai Xiao (AS Centre for Scientific and Artistic Research) |
Future Inclusion Education Design |
|
20 |
Shan Juan |
Creativity in an Age of the Unknown An Educational Exploration |
|
21 |
Ding Junfeng |
“STEDM Education + Project Based Learning (PBL)” Dual Teacher Development Training System |
|
22 |
Wu Jianying |
Practical Research Project in K-12 Art and Design Learning |
|
23 |
Sun Yuanxin |
A Future-Oriented Children's Playground |
|
24 |
Beijing Contemporary Art Foundation |
Art Education Series for Children in Distress |
|
25 |
Wang Jiabei |
THE SMART PROJECT |
Pecially Invited Project
National Art and Design School Dean's Forum and Training Course
Led by the President of Royal College of Arts, UK
The expert jury of the BNU Future Design Center evaluated all the shortlisted projects are with innovation, foresight and their own characteristics and expanded the funding scale to better support these projects. Each funded project will complete a mid-term evaluation by 2021 and project closure by 2022.
Background
The Future Design Seed Fund set up on October 15, 2020 aims to identify design talents and youth teachers worldwide; to organize a wide range of social forces to jointly carry out scientific research; to build a new type of practical training platform and optimize the training mode for talent innovation; and to deepen university-enterprise cooperation and accelerate the transformation of scientific research results.
This year, the BNU Future Design Seed Fund received 159 submissions in total, and after blind-review recommendation and general discussion, 25 projects were finally selected by the expert jury through a comprehensive evaluation from five perspectives: futuristic, experiential innovation, social impact, feasibility and relevance to BNU FDC.