We all know that knowledge is power. However, in terms of our daily lives, design can be powerful, inspiring, and enlightening, bringing in the new quality productive forces to make life easier and better.

The I8o selected exhibits and cutting-edge technological works from the per spective of the Design Intelligence Award (DIA) over the past decade have been on display at the National Museum of China with the Special Exhibition on Design Intelligence and High Quality Development since Saturday.

Beginning in 2014, DIA, China's first international academic award in the field of innovative design, has continuously expanded its reach and influence, gradually evolving into China's most globally influential comprehensive innovation design award.

"DIA is more than just an award, as it is establishing a global industrial think tank for the innovative development of the current  digital economy and smart society," Gao Shiming, president of the China Academy of Art (CAA) which hosted the exhibition, told the Global Times on Saturday.

Gao said he always believes the purpose of design is "people," not just things. The designer's responsibility is to "create a new life aesthetics in the digital intelligence era," and to "realize human preservation and development in the new digital civilization under the new technological condi-tions, social relations, values and ethics of the 21st century."

For art academies like the China Acad emy of Art, contributing to the new quality productive forces means "the integration of artistic innovation and scientific and technological innovation, which can boost manufacturing with artistic and design wisdom," Gao said.

The exhibition is part of the efforts to respond to the latest demands of new quality productive forces and demonstrate the

strongest capabilities of Chinese design and manufacturing. The cases and works included in the exhibition are divided into such sections as Auxiliary Computing to Brain-Inspired Intelligence, Healthcare to Human Enhancement, Scale Advantage to Green Innovation, and Portable and Convenient to Smart and Beautiful Living.

According to Lu Tao, the exhibition's curator who is also the secretary-general of Design Intelligence Award, the first section focuses on the Artificial Intelligence (AI) evolving from a simple computational aid to a complex system capable of intelligent judgment and autonomous action, becoming more and more similar to the human brain.

This section presents the transformation of AI and showcases representative application scenarios in industrial hub, aerospace intelligence control, and immersive intelligence. These intelligent systems are reshaping the industrial landscape and indicating a future vision of human-machine integrated intelligence.