News from this website (Correspondent: Liu Dan) On November 17, 2023, the College organized an academic lecture and teacher training activity in Room R425 of Dexin Building, focusing on the New Financial and Economic reform. The event featured guest speakers Mr. Li Shaokang, General Manager of D+M Industrial Design Town at Whirlwind Group in Wuhan, and Zhang Yimeng, Head of the Innovation Class at Whirlwind College. The theme of the lecture was Innovation in the Entire Industry Chain Design + Exploration and Practice of Intelligent Assistance. The entire faculty and student representatives attended, and Vice Dean Zhang Yang presided over the event.
In the segment on Innovation in the Entire Industry Chain Design, Li Shaokang discussed that in an era of continuous progress in industrial design, both universities and enterprises have a responsibility to actively align with national development strategies and place high importance on the development of the design industry and design education. Whirlwind Group, with its development strategy of building a Chinese design brand and empowering high-quality development and the core concept of innovation in the entire industry chain design in the industrial service ecological zone, has undergone a comprehensive transformation of the big design concept from the perspectives of products, industries, society, and civilization in industrial design. They have strengthened systematic thinking about people, products, society, and the environment, comprehensively expanded the role of enterprises in talent cultivation at universities, and formed an innovative model that drives the entire industry chain, including industry, economy, culture, and the development of design education.
In the Exploration and Practice of Intelligent Assistance segment, Zhang Yimeng provided a detailed introduction to the specific cases of Whirlwind College's Generative Artificial Intelligence Empowering the Entire Industry Chain Design Education and Practice. The Whirlwind Interactive Panoramic Education relies on the aggregation and integration of high-quality industrial resources on the design entire industry chain platform to effectively utilize various intelligent tools of artificial intelligence. They have established in-depth cooperation with numerous renowned domestic and international universities and enterprises. This collaboration has been integrated through interactive tools, interactive classrooms, interactive practices into product scenarios, industry scenarios, and social scenarios, embodying the educational philosophy of integrating with value, merging with the future, and merging with the world. In terms of innovation, academic competitions, project practices, and research topics, they have achieved abundant results in teaching research and practical outcomes.
Following the lecture, the two guest speakers engaged in a profound discussion with the college faculty on the current impact, challenges, integration, development, and application of artificial intelligence in design education and design practices.
Vice Dean Zhang Yang expressed gratitude for the insights shared by the two experts. She pointed out that their reflections on the forefront of design and industrial development, especially the innovative practices in the entire industry chain design field and the exploration of intelligent assistance in design education, have provided valuable experiences for the college in areas such as industrial development, design innovation, talent cultivation, and cooperation with enterprises. Additionally, it has offered new perspectives for the college's in-depth promotion of the New Financial and Economic reform.