SCHOOL OF FUTURE DESIGN, BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY
Beijing Normal University Future Design Seed Fund Finalist Announced

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

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.