The "IOE Sino-German City Information Visualization" Course Design and Teaching Achievements Conference, co-organized by the School of Media&Communication of Wuhan Textile University and the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany, was successfully opened on 27 March 2022 at 19:00 via the ZOOM conference line. Many experts and scholars from home and abroad attended and spoke at the conference.
The "IOE Sino-German Information Visualization Course--City Information Visualization Design" and the exchange of works exhibition were opened in Hamburg, Germany by the teaching team of the School of Media&Communication of Wuhan Textile University and the University of Applied Sciences Hamburg, Germany, in the form of an online exhibition. The event was led by Ms. Xiong Ju, the team leader of Hubei Province's hybrid first-class course "City Information Visualization Design" at Wuhan Textile University's School of Media&Communication, and co-directed by a team of Sino-German international teachers. The event was led by Ms. Xiong Ju, the team leader of Hubei Province's hybrid first-class course "City Information Visualisation Design" at Wuhan Textile University's School of Media&Communication, and co-directed by a team of Sino-German international teachers. The works of the course exhibition are based on the visualization of city information as the creative core, the collection of city data, information mining, and the visualization of the six sensory systems of sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch and consciousness. A total of 67 works, including 20 pieces of 360° panoramic photography, 11 pieces of traditional culture, 21 pieces of city theme-related works, and 15 pieces of the anti-epidemic theme created by 112 students who major in digital media art at the School of Media&Communication, with a total of 353 pieces of design works, were exhibited and released through the online and offline teaching areas of the two platforms "IClass" in China and Pageflow in Germany respectively. Details of the exhibition can be found at the online exhibition : https://fml.pageflow.io/international-online-exhibition.
At the opening ceremony, Dean Shen Xiangsheng, on behalf of the School of Media&Communication thanked the German experts for their support to the development of education and teaching in the University and the College over the years. And then, he introduced the development concept of the School of Media&Communication to adhere to open schooling and actively explore the quality of talent training through international cooperation and exchange over the years. Through high-level international cooperation with universities in the UK, France and Germany, the School of Media&Communication continues to bring in quality educational resources, while focusing on two-way export and exchange of local quality teaching resources, enhancing the quality of schooling and talent training through teaching and creation of Chinese and German students on the same topic, teacher exchange exhibitions, mutual visits of teachers and students, and student exchange training, etc., and continuously deepening the fruitful results achieved through education and teaching reform. In cooperation with a number of universities, including the Hamburg Academy of Fine Arts in Germany, we have been working together for more than ten years to develop international collaborative higher education research combining science and art. This exhibition is one of the fruits of the many years of international teaching cooperation.
The participating experts fully affirmed the quality of the works on display and the significance of this academic exchange event with an international perspective on the cultural exchange between China and Germany. This large-scale international education and teaching reform is an effective and successful attempt to explore a new way of teaching and learning reform with an international model through cultural exchange and creative interaction, in order to achieve the interaction of teaching results by young students.
Ms. Xiong Ju from the School of Media&Communication briefly introduced the design ideology and design methodology of the Hubei hybrid first-class course "City Information Visualization Design". She emphasized that the course focuses on the innovative application of knowledge, inspiring students to explore and practice a new information presentation design of digital media art by means of empowering media, linking with the six human perception systems, and re-editing the language of artistic modeling. She also introduced the German "meta-planning" teaching method, guiding students to learn by doing, fostering team-based learning and participatory learning, emphasizing students' understanding of society, focusing on social development and cultivating students’ correct values, and enhancing students' national pride and self-confidence through international exchange, which was well received by students. Representatives from the School of Media&Communication's Digital Media Arts student team gave presentations in English on online exhibition management, technology, design methods, my favorite works, team division of labor and collaboration, online data platforms, blended learning models, and online guided tours.
This blended international teaching approach and exchange of exhibition activities not only gave the students a great deal of enthusiasm for creativity, but also benefited them throughout the preparation and organization of the exhibition event from offline to online. Through this exhibition practice, the students were able to link all the professional qualities of their digital media art studies. Moreover, through the art exchange and exhibition, they gained confidence in cultural exchange.
