Design-AI Lab ("D-AI") was established in 2015. In 2021, the lab was recognized as one of the philosophy and social sciences labs by China's Ministry of Education. Under the strategy of developing a strong culture in China, and with the aim to improve and evolve cultural and art creation and cultural and creative design in the digital age, D-AI integrates the Internet of Things, perceptual computing, mixed reality and swarm intelligence network to solve the key issues relating to the content, techniques, and application of cultural designs. These can help to improve China's soft power and build D-AI into a world-class lab of design 4.0 in the intelligent era.
In May 2021, the Key Laboratory of Traditional Heated-form Craft Technology and Digital Design was recognized as a key lab by China's Ministry of Culture and Tourism.
The lab conducts research on traditional heated-form craft technology and digital design to integrate art and technology, including research on key technologies and their application. Its endeavors are focused on two areas. First, data processing in traditional ceramic craft technology. The lab focuses on key technologies, such as digital data capture, multimodal data aggregation, database building, and sample source system. Second, creative and intelligent design of traditional handmade objects. The lab zeroes in on applications such as parametric model, intelligent creation, composite materials, precision technology and numerical control.
Based in China and with a global vision, the lab aims to promote China's national cultural development strategy, carry forward traditional Chinese culture, and implement the revitalization program for traditional craft technology. Its research on data processing in traditional ceramic craft technology and creative and intelligent design of traditional handmade objects is expected to produce distinctive results on materials & thinking, creation & process, parameters & modals, and digitalization & intelligence. The lab aims to become a key facility that leads China's traditional craft technology and digital design as well as an international high-end platform for craft culture and academic exchanges.
The National University Science and Technology Park of CAA was established in 2010, as the first national university science and technology park featuring artistic creativity. The park is located in Hangzhou Zhijiang National Tourism Resort, adjacent to Xiangshan Campus, CAA. With a total planned area of about 156.73 hectares, it encompasses a core demonstration zone, an industrial development zone, and a comprehensive supporting zone.
The park is planned, developed and managed jointly by CAA and Hangzhou Xihu District (Zhijiang National Tourism Resort). Operating under a mixed university-directed, corporate and model, it aims to incubate creative businesses, commercialize creative results, and train and gather creative talents. Its endeavors will help to foster the joint development of the industries where CAA gets involved, upgrade the local economy and explore a new model for urban-rural development.
The National Institute of Art Education is the first national and interdisciplinary art education and research institute created as per the approval of China's Ministry of Education (MOE) and the opinions of Zhejiang Provincial Government, Ministry of Culture, and MOE on the joint development of CAA. It conducts art education research and consulting guided by the Department of Higher Education, MOE. On October 23 in 2016, the institute was formally established in CAA. It invites experts and scholars at home and abroad for joint research on all art disciplines.
The institute is committed to establishing art education ideology and methodology with Chinese elements, improving the advanced art education system with Chinese characteristics, elevating the level of art research and innovation in China, training great artists, and promoting international art education cooperation and exchanges, thus contributing to the country's educational undertakings.
Centered on art, the institute aims to enhance people's sensibility and innovation to redefine the interdependent relationship between art and education in the context of global civilization. Guided by the philosophy of Art/Education, it emphasizes the role of art in human creativity and knowledge system and considers in a new light the relations between art and science, art and other intelligent fields in order to develop a new science among the current university or academy system as well as figure out a new pathway for innovation in terms of thinking, knowledge and society.
The High-Caliber Art Talent Training Base aims to bring the educational strengths of CAA into full play and gather domestic experts and scholars to create a national team of high-caliber teachers. It also completes the major national programs of talent training to deliver high-caliber talents in art creation, art management, vocational education, intangible cultural heritage, art education, animation and cultural creativity. Besides, it works on a new Chinese humanistic education system focused on art education to help to enhance China's soft power and build a strong socialist culture in China.
The Institute of Philosophy of Art and Cultural Innovation was formerly known as the Research Center of Phenomenology of Art, which was created in 2001 and renamed the Institute of Phenomenology of Art in December 2010. The Institute of Philosophy of Art and Cultural Innovation became a potential research base of philosophy and social science in Zhejiang Province in May 2015, and was recognized as a key research base of philosophy and social science in Zhejiang in November 2017.
Basing itself in the China Academy of Art, the Institute of Phenomenology of Art works with famed artists and thinkers dedicated to phenomenology on the studies and lectures on the new areas of art philosophy and cultural innovation as well as regular or irregular art forums and exhibitions regularly. It also fosters interactions between art and ideas and emphasizes interdisciplinary integration as it is committed to creating a relationship and mechanism for theories and creations to coexist and interact. In addition, the institute gathers global resources, especially those related to core disciplines and key areas of research, to build a great platform for global cultural communication and exchange. Based on the development of world-class art education programs featuring Orientalism, the institute has completed interdisciplinary integration, improving its influence across academia. Since its inception, the institute has facilitated or led related research and academic exchanges in China and even across the globe, increasing the fame of scholarly artists and showcasing the high academic level of Chinese art research. It is committed to doctoral and postgraduate education based on practices and theories in fine arts, and has been highly acclaimed by Chinese and global academia for its endeavors and influence.
In 2018, the Base for Traditional Chinese Painting & Calligraphy, CAA was recognized as one of the first bases for carrying forward traditional Chinese culture in universities by China's Ministry of Education. The major objective of the base is to amplify the value of modern education of traditional Chinese painting and calligraphy to carry forward traditional Chinese culture. The base is committed to delving into traditional culture and art to empower public art education, social education, and government decision-making. It promotes research and innovation achievements, general education, community betterment, textbook development, curriculum sharing, social practice, and art think tank among universities, primary and secondary schools, social groups, communities and towns, to facilitate the preservation, restoration, innovative development, and popularity of traditional Chinese painting and calligraphy. These will benefit the masses and foster the prosperity and innovation of Chinese culture.
The Design Industry Innovation Center (DIIC) is one of the first innovation centers founded by universities in Zhejiang Province under the guidance of the "Program 2011" (Program for the Elevation of Universities' Innovation Capabilities). DIIC collaborates with the Peking University, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and Hangzhou Municipal Government to carry out regional development research.
To meet the great need for transformation and upgrade of national and local manufacturing in China, DIIC focuses on promoting the industry and training talents, guided by "Eastern Design" ideas, motivated by cultural innovation, and powered by technology transfers and combined effects. It aims to be a model helping Zhejiang transform into a major center of manufacturing as well as a model for displaying the value of culture in today's China by further strengthening the link between culture and the industry.
The China Institute for Visual Studies (CIVS) was founded in 2014, with the missions of visual expression of core values, visual innovation of Chinese culture, visual activation of traditional culture, and visual communication of national image. It fosters cross-cultural and interdisciplinary collaborative innovation focused on visual traditional Chinese culture, visual modern art, and visual rural society. It works to gather top talents worldwide to build an Eastern system for visual arts with visual traditional Chinese culture as the core element, as it is committed to injecting the fine elements of Chinese culture into research, innovation, education and social services through globalization and socialization of higher education.
The Institute of Cultural Innovation and Visual Communication was created in 2017. Based on the strong academic foundations of CAA, it closely connects with extensive educational resources at home and abroad and world-class academic forces. To become a national-level think tank, the institute contributes to making national culture and art more prosperous, meets the key needs for cultural and art development in Zhejiang, and promotes art education through cultural innovation. Amidst China's development, it is committed to visual culture construction and study on social update strategy in the new era, as part of its efforts to facilitate visual communication of culture and regional economic growth.
Zhejiang Provincial Key Lab for Healthy and Smart Kitchen System is primarily engaged in the research of basic technology for green, low-carbon and healthy kitchens, food technology for health, industrial design innovation for kitchens, and kitchen equipment production technology. This practice-oriented platform is one of Zhejiang Provincial Key Labs. It was jointly established by the China Academy of Art and FOTILE Kitchenware Co., Ltd. in 2014 and passed the acceptance test by the Zhejiang Provincial Department of Science and Technology in 2016.
The lab operates under the principles of openness, competition, cooperation and mobility. Combining business-directed innovation with university-directed theory practices, it gathers outstanding tech experts from home and abroad and conducts international and domestic cooperation and academic exchanges. With the basic model of project, process and objective management, the lab explores new research organizational forms and management models conducive to sci-tech innovation to improve operations management of itself as an open lab.
Established in December 1993, the Color Research Institute is China's first research institute focusing on fundamental theories of color applications and social experiments in the domain of plastic arts. The story began when Song Jianming, a faculty member of the China Academy of Art who returned from study in France, was sponsored by the Fok Ying Tung Education Foundation as a selected young lecturer under the State Education Commission for his project called "Fundamental Color Research and Systematic Application". It was in this context that an institute specializing in color research was set up to address the issues relating to color applications amidst China's urbanization. In the very beginning, a standard color application system (3,000 equal color difference) was created. In the past 20 years, the institute has been leading nationwide research on urban color planning, design and construction.
Founded in April 1986 by the famous Bulgarian Artist of Merit, Prof. Maryn Ivanov Varbanov, who was one of the most influential figures in the history of Chinese and global contemporary art, the Varbanov Fiber Art Research Center has been immersed in avant-garde practices and education in contemporary fiber art. It was officially named by China's Ministry of Culture and renamed the Contemporary Fiber Art Institute in 2015.
The Contemporary Fiber Art Institute, CAA has been leading fiber art research and education in China over the past 32 years, and has pioneered the distinctive academic orientations of the country's contemporary plastic arts. Guided by Prof. Maryn Ivanov Varbanov's pioneering spirit, the institute is committed to facilitating, studying and developing the practices and theories of contemporary fiber art. It is engaged in in-depth explorations of the social attributes of fiber media, the distinctiveness of fiber forms and multidimensional spatial construction. Today, it is a key player in contemporary artistic creation featuring unique perspectives and expressions of fiber art. In 2013, the institute hosted the Triennial of Fiber Art in Hangzhou, which opened the door to interactions between China's contemporary fiber art and global fiber art. This event serves as a high-level academic arena for the advancement of China's fiber art domain, while exerting enormous influence on the global fiber art world.
The institute keeps exploring and fostering the contemporary development and Eastern research and creations of fiber art, as it stays committed to promoting the diverse practices of in fiber art people's daily lives and public domains.
In September 2000, a studio of painting and calligraphy connoisseurship was created in the China Academy of Art. In November 2002, it was renamed the Chinese Painting and Calligraphy Connoisseurship Center, CAA. Academic objective: Art education perfects people and promotes cultural heritages. Areas of research: 1. Making all aspects of traditional painting and calligraphy connoisseurship systematical and rational. Enhancing the objectivity and reasonableness of painting and calligraphy connoisseurship based on its interdisciplinary features as well as the achievements in other disciplines; 2. Effecting a higher education system for Chinese painting and calligraphy connoisseurship to train connoisseurs. Research hub: The center is one of the first academic research institutes specializing in Chinese painting and calligraphy connoisseurship that are affiliated with colleges or universities in China.
The Modern Calligraphy Research Center was established on December 26, 2002. Over the past 16 years, the center has been committed to promoting the contemporary transformation and development of Chinese calligraphy, leading modern Chinese calligraphy research, practice and education, and planning, implementing and facilitating international exhibitions and seminars on contemporary art and calligraphy, with the great support of the leadership and the Research Development & Innovative Office, CAA. Based on CAA's extensive resources and multidisciplinary strengths in the calligraphy program, the center aims to "carry forward traditions, pioneer innovation, tackle educational issues and build a robust academic environment"
The center has gradually become an operational synthesis of higher education, exhibitions and scientific research, with two signature exhibitions: "Calligraphy and Beyond" and "Christmas Eve Calligraphy". So far, three editions of "Calligraphy and Beyond" has been held in 2005, 2010 and 2015, while "Christmas Eve Calligraphy" is held almost every year since its debut in 2006. They have pushed forward the center's academic activities, helping it deliver fruitful educational results and social impact, enhancing CAA's reputation.
The Art History Research Center aims to raise standards for the research on Chinese art history and lay the foundation for connecting art of the East and the West. Its major areas of research are the foundational ideas and classics of Chinese art history and the evolution of Chinese and Western art histories. Its research methodologies are based on art history and integrate stylistics, iconography, textual criticism, textology, history of ideas, history of culture, psychology, sociology, etc., as the center is working to create a paradigm of diversified art history research and showcase the colorful spiritual world of human beings.
Created in October 2003, the Institute for Collaborative Innovation in Chinese Visual Studies is fresh academic progress from the historical perspective of modern art made by the China Academy of Art in answer to the global development of visual culture, to study and establish Chinese models of art production and consumption.
Based in CAA, the institute collaborates with well-known art curation, critics, artists and scholars at home and abroad to dive into and criticize artistic systems, and to deliberate on the current status and prospects of Chinese artistic systems. It also organizes many exhibitions to seek feasible and creative exhibition models. The institute is dedicated to visual culture research and exhibition experiments. It tests and develops theories of visual culture and exhibition models through practices to facilitate Chinese study and reflection on modern visual rules.
The Historiography of Art History Research Center aims to build a first-class academic community engaging in the international research of art and culture. Its endeavors are focused on two areas: First, research on art history and history of historiography, to strengthen the traditional academia and expand its international influence; second, creation of a new paradigm of research on art history and contemporary culture to make it a new driving force for discipline development.
The center fully reviews the academic achievements in the history of art historiography in China and beyond, and digs into the historical origins and theoretical systems of related methodologies, with a view to comprehensively promoting the educational reform proposal for the "knowledge system for art history" through research. It is working to advance two systematical research programs, namely a research series on traditional Chinese painting history and a research series on art history and methodologies, to make them influential globally, as it aims to become an exemplary research center in China. The center is expected to study the core achievements and methodologies of Chinese and global art history from cross-cultural perspectives, figure out their academic origins, and analyze different scenarios of challenges, so as to understand their theoretical significance from the historical clues in and the discipline mix of the world academia. Research teams led by the center have carried out many academic projects at the national and provincial levels, laying a solid foundation for the knowledge system for art history. Besides, the center organizes a series of educational research activities. It has fully reviewed and facilitated the frontier research on Chinese art history, structured distinctive research perspectives on Chinese painting, expanded research areas and explored new research methods. It is striving to differentiate and analyze the creations, theories and connoisseurship of Chinese painting in the settings of the history of Chinese culture and thought. To this end, it closely collaborates with international academics.
The Research Center of Phenomenology of Art was set up in 2001 and renamed the Institute of Phenomenology of Art in December 2010. The Institute of Art Philosophy and Cultural Innovation became a potential research base of philosophy and social science in Zhejiang Province in May 2015, and was recognized as a key research base of philosophy and social science in Zhejiang in November 2017.
Basing itself in the China Academy of Art, the Institute of Phenomenology of Art works with famed artists and thinkers dedicated to phenomenology on the studies and lectures on the new areas of art philosophy and cultural innovation as well as regular or irregular art forums and exhibitions regularly. It also fosters interactions between art and ideas and emphasizes interdisciplinary integration as it is committed to creating a relationship and mechanism for theories and creations to coexist and interact. In addition, the institute gathers global resources, especially those related to core disciplines and key areas of research, to build a great platform for global cultural communication and exchange. Based on the development of world-class art education programs featuring Orientalism, the institute has completed interdisciplinary integration, improving its influence across academia. Since its inception, the institute has facilitated or led related research and academic exchanges in China and even across the globe, increasing the fame of scholarly artists and showcasing the high academic level of Chinese art research. It is committed to doctoral and postgraduate education based on practices and theories in fine arts, and has been highly acclaimed by Chinese and global academia for its endeavors and influence.
As urban and rural architecture converges in the midst of globalization, the center critically revitalizes local architectural traditions, theoretically based on the reflections upon the Western concepts of modern cities and architecture. With a focus on the commercialization of modern innovation results, the center has established a new system of Chinese local architecture design and education. It explores a new architectural culture that prioritizes local and sustainable research and design in keeping up with China's urbanization, while seizing the opportunities and addressing the issues arising from the coordinated urban-rural development in Zhejiang Province. The center zeroes in on fathoming the conflicts between heritage protection and pursuit of growth to reshape the local architectural aesthetics in China, especially local cultural characteristics in Zhejiang Province. It is working to revitalize local craftsmanship, and this includes architectural craftsmanship mechanisms in China, especially in Zhejiang Province, based on comprehensive field studies.
Based on the development of public culture and spatial aesthetics in the context of China's urbanization and urban-rural integration, the center is dedicated to multidisciplinary comprehensive research to push forward public art education and communication, create a high-quality urban-rural cultural ecosystem, and shape and improve regional cultural reputation.
Established in 2007, the Research Center for Humanities & Art Education leverages the disciplinary features and strengths of the Department of Ideology, Politics and Social Science Education to advocate and emphasize multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary exchange, collaboration and communication. In the context and landscape of art education, it is dedicated to developing ideology, politics, humanities, language as well as other disciplines and fostering research on related issues. By highlighting the role of humanities and social sciences in methodological exploration and practice of general knowledge, the center promotes academic communications between insiders and outsiders of art and art education and reaches out to other disciplines.
Since its establishment in 2008, the Ancient Chinese Calligraphy Research Center has stayed committed to carrying forward and fostering China's fine traditional culture, promoting the creation and theoretical research on ancient Chinese calligraphy, training calligraphy experts, and continuously creating remarkable calligraphy works. The center gathers celebrated professors, experts and scholars of the Department of Calligraphy, CAA, outstanding PhD and postgraduate students in ancient Chinese calligraphy, and calligraphy enthusiasts. Therefore, the center is influential across academia and a key driver of the development of the local cultural sector.
Established in 2008, the Intermedia Art Research Center conducts art practices and theoretical research based upon intermedia perspectives and experimental methodologies and is charged with education in the domain. In terms of theories, the center probes into multidisciplinary ideas and helps them interact from the angle of art. In terms of practice, it focuses on planning and organizing cultural projects of various topics to facilitate the connection, rather than assimilation, of sociology and aesthetics across many domains. In terms of social practice, the center has a strong association with architecture, museology, regional planning, and cultural creativity. Since its inception, the center has been upholding its experimental, academic and social elements in interdisciplinary research. It has carried out systematic investigation and practice on culture-art creation mechanism and synergy in collaboration with Chinese and globally acclaimed artists, scientists, philosophers, anthropologists, art historians and experts in other domains. As far as the public is concerned, these endeavors have provided more creative and constructive experiments of possibility as well as more academic and professional theoretical research for the contemporary and future development of art.
The China Academy of Art began its cultural heritage research when it was called National Academy of Art, which was established in 1928. Such research endeavors are crucial to CAA's art education and academic research. In the early 1950s, CAA created the "Office of Fork Art Heritage Research". In the late 1950s, the "Department of Folk Art" came into being. From the 1980s, CAA took the lead in enrolling the first cohort of postgraduates in folk art after the national college entrance examination was resumed in China. Academic treasures in the domain of cultural heritage research left by the older generations of CAA have been leading the new generations forward. Under the auspice of the academy, the Department of Design Arts, School of Design applied for setting up the "Zhejiang Research Base for Intangible Cultural Heritage" at CAA in 2008, as global cultural heritage research was booming. The base has been working on intangible cultural heritage projects, such as related research theories and methodologies, protection strategies and management rules, construction of a related education system, investigation and research, and the establishment of a database. In 2009, CAA created the "Cultural Heritage Research Center" based on the base, expanding its areas of research to many other areas covering intangible and tangible cultural heritages.
Established on June 16, 2000, the Research Center of Chinese Watercolor Painting has effected a theory and artistic language system for Chinese watercolor painting, telling China's stories from both Eastern and global perspectives. It conducts comparative analysis of Eastern and Western watercolor paintings with the essential goal to provide theories to support the advancement of Chinese watercolor painting.
Areas of research and innovation and major features of the center: The century-old Chinese watercolor painting has reached the international level, in terms of both practice and techniques, thanks to the endeavors of pioneers of old generations. Some Chinese watercolor painting works are ranked among the world's top masterpieces for their oriental elements. Nowadays, Chinese watercolor painting engages the interest of numerous people. However, there is still a long way to go in terms of the research on theories of Chinese watercolor painting, especially the review of oriental spirit. Deep explorations of Chinese local culture and spirit are absent. This hinders the development of Chinese watercolor painting. The center is dedicated to reviewing and digging into the theoretical structuring, methodologies and language research on Chinese watercolor painting, as a reliable and professional research platform for Chinese watercolor painting.
The Rock Painting Research Center explores new materials and art concepts and applies them to the research and creation of rock painting works, with a view to promoting Chinese painting.
The center zeroes in on the studies on the materials science of rock painting. It developed mineral pigments of thousands of hues, filling the gap in materials and tools for rock painting. It has the latest, the most varied and best rock painting materials among all research centers in China. Besides, the center focuses on academic exploration. It is dedicated to studying painting techniques and theories. It has started an advanced program for rock painting research and creation in combination with the education and research by the Department of Mural Painting at the School of Painting, and the Research Center for Western Chinese Culture. The center has carried out wide and in-depth field studies of culture and art at home and abroad. It is now a facility integrating scientific research, academic research, education and creation.
The Interactive Arts and Technology Institute is dedicated to integrating digital technologies with art to improve artistic expression, based on computer graphics and guided by software engineering theories as it keeps abreast of the state-of-the-art technologies for interactive art in the world. It aims to become an academic platform for the development, application and education of digital products.
The institute was created in September 2011. Guided by software engineering theories and based upon China's creative industry, it works to establish a multidisciplinary and cross-sectoral theoretical system integrating technologies and art in the arena of interactive art.
The Industrial Design and Research Institute gathers top-notch designers through the Design Innovation Center and the Department of Industrial Design, CAA, with an aim to build an exchange platform for industrial design and cultural creativity by leveraging the academic resources, reputation and talent pool of CAA. It pools forces from all sectors of society to advance the development of the design sector, serves CAA and the sector well, integrates design resources, improves design quality, trains outstanding experts, and promotes industrial design amidst industrial transformation and upgrade.
The China Academy of Art applied to the Hangzhou Municipal Government for establishing the Bauhaus Institute with the purpose of probing into the value of the "collections of modern Western design with Bauhaus as the core element". On May 9, 2011, the Bauhaus Institute, CAA was launched as per the approval of the Hangzhou Municipal Government.
The institute is devoted to the research of the collections of modern Western design with Bauhaus as the core element, planning and organization of related academic events, and researcher training. As the China Design Museum has been created, the institute becomes an organization for research, publication and talent training related to modern Western design with Bauhaus as the core element. It aims to function as an R&D base and key research institute for Chinese modern design education through academic research, education promotion and industry convergence, so as to provide China's creative industry with a platform and ideas.
Sound and visual arts have been an inseparable combination. They will be eventually perfectly integrated via 3D media, as 3D visualization technologies become full-fledged and popular. Global application of 3D audio-video technologies (dual 3D technologies) is in its preliminary stage. China will have enormous opportunities in the midst of an upcoming wave of new audio technologies. The Institute of 3D Sound and Image is committed to introducing, developing and fully grasping dual 3D technologies, especially 3D audio technology; strengthening its connection with domestic and international firms and experts in the said technologies; and creating a platform for communication and collaboration to promote the application and development of such technologies in China. The institute attempts to realize the widespread application and promotion of dual 3D technologies and lead a sound revolution. This will bring great changes and huge economic benefits to cultural initiatives and the cultural industry in China.
The China Research Institute for Culture and Design aims to inherit the essence of traditional culture through creative design. With a focus on the art of living, it endeavors to activate traditional Chinese culture in the present era, showcase a new aesthetic style of visual reading which suits both low and highbrow tastes, and provide global audience with outstanding Chinese cultural derivative works of art that can boast rich spiritual connotations.
The Center for Chinese Thoughts, Painting and Calligraphy devotes itself to carrying forward and promoting Chinese art. It focuses on exploring and reflecting upon the spirit of Chinese art. In collaboration with the No.3 Studio of the Department of Oil Painting, CAA, the center has created a platform for interplay between traditional Chinese culture and Western art through figurative painting. It looks into the relationship among the distinctive elements of Chinese cultural aesthetics, self-cultivation and the practices of painting and calligraphy, based on the history of Chinese thoughts, databases and digital humanities research. It has identified four areas of research, namely traditional Chinese painting, calligraphy, modern art and figurative painting and has been active in these domains for ten years, receiving attention from global academia.
The Research Center for Western Chinese Culture was created in the context of the launch of China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), to develop and disseminate the Silk Road culture and art. Based in the China Academy of Art, the center collaborates with other organizations, noted scholars and artists to conserve and restore Western Chinese Culture and art as well as historical sites along the Silk Road. It also delves into the research and creation related to Qiuci fresco, Buddhist art, etc. It strives to create an international academic platform to lead an academic trend in the domain and become a top-class research institute in its specialized areas in contribution to the BRI.
The center focuses on the study and creation associated with the Silk Road culture and art based on interdisciplinary research on visual arts involving fine arts, art theories, film, television and animation. These endeavors can drive education, including postgraduate programs such as Chinese Visualization, Research on Western Chinese Visual Culture, Theories and Practices of Chinese Painting, Research on and Creation of Fresco Theories, and Research and Creation of Film, Television and Animation.
The Fashion & Textile Research Centre was born in 2007 amidst CAA's strategic collaboration with the Hangzhou Municipal Government and the development of urban brands. As a platform dedicated to the development of national industries, talented designers, design education and research, the center fully leverages the strengths of CAA in culture and history, disciplines, international resources, and educational resources to build itself into a sharing platform for global fashion and textile resources, a global post-doctoral fellow center in the domain, a communication platform for designers, a research platform of Chinese silk and women's fashion, a research platform for national, provincial and municipal industry-university-research projects. Besides, it aims to build a strong international team of teachers to provide a full range of services for the local fashion and textile industry, corporate branding, core value promotion and talent training.
The Urban-Rural Development Research Institute was launched at the fourth strategic collaboration meeting between Hangzhou City and the China Academy of Art in May 2011. The institute gathers prominent experts in urban-rural development and cultural creativity. It is composed of Creativity and Planning Center, Branding Strategy Center, Industrial Development Center, and Communication Research Center. Based on the academic background and resources of CAA, Hangzhou's urban-rural development practices and the philosophy of collaborative innovation, the institute is active in promoting the sustainable and sound advancement of urbanization across China. It focuses on the development and research, brand planning, conceptual design, industrial analysis, and promotion of historic and cultural cities and streets, cultural and creative industrial parks, featured towns, and beautiful villages.
The Game Art Design Research Institute (Shangyu Research Institute) was created in the collaboration with the Shangyu District Government in October 2017, as an affiliate of the China Academy of Art. Benefiting from CAA's strengths in traditional art and primary discipline of drama, film and television, the institute is dedicated to exploring game art, with a focus on the design and research on modern digital games. It exerts influence on society while advancing educational reforms through many projects to figure out a higher art education model. The institute is a research entity integrating art education, project research and development, and social services.
The Eastern Design Research Institute was created by the China Academy of Art in response to drastic changes in the cultural, technological and economic landscapes in the world. It is an academic research entity aimed at advancing the innovation and integration of the design sector in China and putting in place a local eastern design system that can influence the globe.
The institute devotes itself to effecting and promoting a theoretical system for oriental design, exploring cutting-edge oriental design intelligence and innovation, disseminating ideas of oriental design and making such design visible in the world. It aims to become a think tank that provides new design ideas and favorable solutions for China and society to prosper and helps to boost the international community and economy with oriental design solutions.
Based in the China Academy of Art Library, the Research Center for Modern Art Literature is dedicated to exploring, collecting, reviewing and studying modern art resources and literature. It plans, arranges and conducts related scientific research, education and talent training programs in collaboration with the schools, departments, research institutes and functional departments of CAA. The center gathers core academic resources of CAA, mostly modern art literature, as it continues to enhance the competitiveness and influence of the CAA Library's resources in the Chinese and international academia. It gets involved in knowledge production, promotion and communication through seminars, exhibitions and publications. Also, it plans and implements the construction and research projects on digital humanities of modern art literature.
The center is committed to enlarging, enriching and deepening the CAA Library's core academic resources, building international platforms for collecting, reviewing and studying Eastern and Western modern art literature. It also gathers academic literature and digital humanities resources of visual arts featuring renowned instructors, masters and masterpieces, as it enhances collaborative innovation with educational programs, schools, departments and research and exhibition agencies. Through deep involvement in education, talent training and research programs, the center is able to produce, promote and communicate knowledge sustainably.
Rooted in CAA's academic foundations, the center explores, collects, reviews and studies the memories and history of visual arts by the interplay between reading and images in the context of globalized visual arts and media integration. By doing so, it can provide academic resources and inspiration for probing into, interpreting and activating visual ideas and modernity behind modern art as well as for reshaping the intrinsic nature of Chinese visual art.
In May 2021, the Research Center for Science & Technology and Art Integration was created with the aim to further collaborative research and development of science & technology and art. Apart from carrying out technological explorations and art practices to catalyze primary innovation, it integrates art and science and enriches art forms to empower social progress.
The center engages in research, education, and industrial collaboration. To pursue forward-looking, academically professional, and society-oriented research, it collaborates with scientists, artists, tech professionals, and scholars at home and abroad to conduct cross-sectoral practices and theoretical studies, train multidisciplinary researchers, and create an international innovation and research platform that blends sci-tech and art. At the same time, the center facilitates interdisciplinary education and research at CAA, offers a base to try out novel art practices, and encourages communication, demonstration, and social cooperation.
The Research Institute for Chinese Painting Studies was created in June 2021.
The institute aims to develop itself into an institution of advanced creation and research of Chinese painting with both strong artistic and academic elements.
Based on the traditions, modern forms, and future trends of national paintings in China, it promotes advanced, in-depth, and cutting-edge research on topics relevant to Chinese painting studies as it strives to become a specialized and research-oriented agency with global influence.
As a dedicated research hub with access to the China Academy of Art's extensive resources, the institute is dedicated to forming the system of Orientalism of Visual Arts. In addition, it concentrates on the development of modern humanities and the exploration of new liberal arts that transcend professional boundaries.
The institute is a Young Scholar Platform Development Project supported by the Changjiang Scholars Program under China's Ministry of Education.
Research Institute of Beautiful China Initiative
Published on: June 16, 2022
The Research Institute of Beautiful China Initiative was created in response to the national need for high-quality development to contribute to the Beautiful China Initiative. It gathers experts from home and abroad in the domains of art, design, science, technology, sociology, culture, and ecology, as a research and innovation platform covering artist think tank, public aesthetics and social innovation. It strives to propel urban renewal, foster rural revitalization, empower social art education, and contribute to building a beautiful China.
Created in June 2021, the institute works to blend the beauty of the environment, lifestyles, society, era, and people, while connecting the beauty of culture and the physical world. With a deep presence in Zhejiang Province and influence throughout the country, the institute pushes forward the building of a beautiful China and the development of ecological civilization. It has three divisions, namely Urban-Rural Development Artist Think Tank, Public Art Education Center, and Social Service Co-Creation Center. It strives to attain three primary objectives involving public affairs, industry, research, education, innovation, and media: supporting urban-rural development planning decision-making, taking part in the top-level design of urban-rural aesthetics, and fostering a diversified urban-rural development ecosystem
The Media City R&D Center is a creative R&D institution integrating the development of media technologies, city research, and multimedia art practices. It generates creative ideas by combining social forces and intellectual resources at the China Academy of Art. To foster a new urban living environment, new social relationships, new industrial models, and new lifestyles, the center carries out pioneering media art experiments to facilitate the self-renewal of cities. Its extensive media city practices can spur intellectual production in education.
Based on media city research, the center enriches media art, participates in modern urban development, inspires imagination of future living, and integrates intellectual resources, as it endeavors to become a motivator for incorporating modern arts into urban renewal and advancing social ideas.
Based on the China Academy of Art's traditional art achievements and the drama, film and television studies as a primary discipline, the China-Chic Art Research Institute aims to spur the creative transformation of traditional Chinese culture in modern times and explore how to combine traditional culture with trendy cultures.
The institute engages in project implementation, education, and industry-university-research collaboration. To pursue trendy, academically professional and industry-oriented research, it joins forces with local and international industry experts, artists, and scholars to conduct cross-sectoral programs and practices. It also facilitates distinctive education and research at CAA as a "Double First-class" academy. It works with talents from all areas of art for cross-sectoral research on the creative and fashionable expression of traditional Chinese culture.
Design-AI Lab ("D-AI") was established in 2015. In 2021, the lab was recognized as one of the philosophy and social sciences labs by China's Ministry of Education. Under the strategy of developing a strong culture in China, and with the aim to improve and evolve cultural and art creation and cultural and creative design in the digital age, D-AI integrates the Internet of Things, perceptual computing, mixed reality and swarm intelligence network to solve the key issues relating to the content, techniques, and application of cultural designs. These can help to improve China's soft power and build D-AI into a world-class lab of design 4.0 in the intelligent era.
In May 2021, the Key Laboratory of Traditional Heated-form Craft Technology and Digital Design was recognized as a key lab by China's Ministry of Culture and Tourism.
The lab conducts research on traditional heated-form craft technology and digital design to integrate art and technology, including research on key technologies and their application. Its endeavors are focused on two areas. First, data processing in traditional ceramic craft technology. The lab focuses on key technologies, such as digital data capture, multimodal data aggregation, database building, and sample source system. Second, creative and intelligent design of traditional handmade objects. The lab zeroes in on applications such as parametric model, intelligent creation, composite materials, precision technology and numerical control.
Based in China and with a global vision, the lab aims to promote China's national cultural development strategy, carry forward traditional Chinese culture, and implement the revitalization program for traditional craft technology. Its research on data processing in traditional ceramic craft technology and creative and intelligent design of traditional handmade objects is expected to produce distinctive results on materials & thinking, creation & process, parameters & modals, and digitalization & intelligence. The lab aims to become a key facility that leads China's traditional craft technology and digital design as well as an international high-end platform for craft culture and academic exchanges.
The National University Science and Technology Park of CAA was established in 2010, as the first national university science and technology park featuring artistic creativity. The park is located in Hangzhou Zhijiang National Tourism Resort, adjacent to Xiangshan Campus, CAA. With a total planned area of about 156.73 hectares, it encompasses a core demonstration zone, an industrial development zone, and a comprehensive supporting zone.
The park is planned, developed and managed jointly by CAA and Hangzhou Xihu District (Zhijiang National Tourism Resort). Operating under a mixed university-directed, corporate and model, it aims to incubate creative businesses, commercialize creative results, and train and gather creative talents. Its endeavors will help to foster the joint development of the industries where CAA gets involved, upgrade the local economy and explore a new model for urban-rural development.
The National Institute of Art Education is the first national and interdisciplinary art education and research institute created as per the approval of China's Ministry of Education (MOE) and the opinions of Zhejiang Provincial Government, Ministry of Culture, and MOE on the joint development of CAA. It conducts art education research and consulting guided by the Department of Higher Education, MOE. On October 23 in 2016, the institute was formally established in CAA. It invites experts and scholars at home and abroad for joint research on all art disciplines.
The institute is committed to establishing art education ideology and methodology with Chinese elements, improving the advanced art education system with Chinese characteristics, elevating the level of art research and innovation in China, training great artists, and promoting international art education cooperation and exchanges, thus contributing to the country's educational undertakings.
Centered on art, the institute aims to enhance people's sensibility and innovation to redefine the interdependent relationship between art and education in the context of global civilization. Guided by the philosophy of Art/Education, it emphasizes the role of art in human creativity and knowledge system and considers in a new light the relations between art and science, art and other intelligent fields in order to develop a new science among the current university or academy system as well as figure out a new pathway for innovation in terms of thinking, knowledge and society.
The High-Caliber Art Talent Training Base aims to bring the educational strengths of CAA into full play and gather domestic experts and scholars to create a national team of high-caliber teachers. It also completes the major national programs of talent training to deliver high-caliber talents in art creation, art management, vocational education, intangible cultural heritage, art education, animation and cultural creativity. Besides, it works on a new Chinese humanistic education system focused on art education to help to enhance China's soft power and build a strong socialist culture in China.
The Institute of Philosophy of Art and Cultural Innovation was formerly known as the Research Center of Phenomenology of Art, which was created in 2001 and renamed the Institute of Phenomenology of Art in December 2010. The Institute of Philosophy of Art and Cultural Innovation became a potential research base of philosophy and social science in Zhejiang Province in May 2015, and was recognized as a key research base of philosophy and social science in Zhejiang in November 2017.
Basing itself in the China Academy of Art, the Institute of Phenomenology of Art works with famed artists and thinkers dedicated to phenomenology on the studies and lectures on the new areas of art philosophy and cultural innovation as well as regular or irregular art forums and exhibitions regularly. It also fosters interactions between art and ideas and emphasizes interdisciplinary integration as it is committed to creating a relationship and mechanism for theories and creations to coexist and interact. In addition, the institute gathers global resources, especially those related to core disciplines and key areas of research, to build a great platform for global cultural communication and exchange. Based on the development of world-class art education programs featuring Orientalism, the institute has completed interdisciplinary integration, improving its influence across academia. Since its inception, the institute has facilitated or led related research and academic exchanges in China and even across the globe, increasing the fame of scholarly artists and showcasing the high academic level of Chinese art research. It is committed to doctoral and postgraduate education based on practices and theories in fine arts, and has been highly acclaimed by Chinese and global academia for its endeavors and influence.
In 2018, the Base for Traditional Chinese Painting & Calligraphy, CAA was recognized as one of the first bases for carrying forward traditional Chinese culture in universities by China's Ministry of Education. The major objective of the base is to amplify the value of modern education of traditional Chinese painting and calligraphy to carry forward traditional Chinese culture. The base is committed to delving into traditional culture and art to empower public art education, social education, and government decision-making. It promotes research and innovation achievements, general education, community betterment, textbook development, curriculum sharing, social practice, and art think tank among universities, primary and secondary schools, social groups, communities and towns, to facilitate the preservation, restoration, innovative development, and popularity of traditional Chinese painting and calligraphy. These will benefit the masses and foster the prosperity and innovation of Chinese culture.
The Design Industry Innovation Center (DIIC) is one of the first innovation centers founded by universities in Zhejiang Province under the guidance of the "Program 2011" (Program for the Elevation of Universities' Innovation Capabilities). DIIC collaborates with the Peking University, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and Hangzhou Municipal Government to carry out regional development research.
To meet the great need for transformation and upgrade of national and local manufacturing in China, DIIC focuses on promoting the industry and training talents, guided by "Eastern Design" ideas, motivated by cultural innovation, and powered by technology transfers and combined effects. It aims to be a model helping Zhejiang transform into a major center of manufacturing as well as a model for displaying the value of culture in today's China by further strengthening the link between culture and the industry.
The China Institute for Visual Studies (CIVS) was founded in 2014, with the missions of visual expression of core values, visual innovation of Chinese culture, visual activation of traditional culture, and visual communication of national image. It fosters cross-cultural and interdisciplinary collaborative innovation focused on visual traditional Chinese culture, visual modern art, and visual rural society. It works to gather top talents worldwide to build an Eastern system for visual arts with visual traditional Chinese culture as the core element, as it is committed to injecting the fine elements of Chinese culture into research, innovation, education and social services through globalization and socialization of higher education.
The Institute of Cultural Innovation and Visual Communication was created in 2017. Based on the strong academic foundations of CAA, it closely connects with extensive educational resources at home and abroad and world-class academic forces. To become a national-level think tank, the institute contributes to making national culture and art more prosperous, meets the key needs for cultural and art development in Zhejiang, and promotes art education through cultural innovation. Amidst China's development, it is committed to visual culture construction and study on social update strategy in the new era, as part of its efforts to facilitate visual communication of culture and regional economic growth.
Zhejiang Provincial Key Lab for Healthy and Smart Kitchen System is primarily engaged in the research of basic technology for green, low-carbon and healthy kitchens, food technology for health, industrial design innovation for kitchens, and kitchen equipment production technology. This practice-oriented platform is one of Zhejiang Provincial Key Labs. It was jointly established by the China Academy of Art and FOTILE Kitchenware Co., Ltd. in 2014 and passed the acceptance test by the Zhejiang Provincial Department of Science and Technology in 2016.
The lab operates under the principles of openness, competition, cooperation and mobility. Combining business-directed innovation with university-directed theory practices, it gathers outstanding tech experts from home and abroad and conducts international and domestic cooperation and academic exchanges. With the basic model of project, process and objective management, the lab explores new research organizational forms and management models conducive to sci-tech innovation to improve operations management of itself as an open lab.
Established in December 1993, the Color Research Institute is China's first research institute focusing on fundamental theories of color applications and social experiments in the domain of plastic arts. The story began when Song Jianming, a faculty member of the China Academy of Art who returned from study in France, was sponsored by the Fok Ying Tung Education Foundation as a selected young lecturer under the State Education Commission for his project called "Fundamental Color Research and Systematic Application". It was in this context that an institute specializing in color research was set up to address the issues relating to color applications amidst China's urbanization. In the very beginning, a standard color application system (3,000 equal color difference) was created. In the past 20 years, the institute has been leading nationwide research on urban color planning, design and construction.
Founded in April 1986 by the famous Bulgarian Artist of Merit, Prof. Maryn Ivanov Varbanov, who was one of the most influential figures in the history of Chinese and global contemporary art, the Varbanov Fiber Art Research Center has been immersed in avant-garde practices and education in contemporary fiber art. It was officially named by China's Ministry of Culture and renamed the Contemporary Fiber Art Institute in 2015.
The Contemporary Fiber Art Institute, CAA has been leading fiber art research and education in China over the past 32 years, and has pioneered the distinctive academic orientations of the country's contemporary plastic arts. Guided by Prof. Maryn Ivanov Varbanov's pioneering spirit, the institute is committed to facilitating, studying and developing the practices and theories of contemporary fiber art. It is engaged in in-depth explorations of the social attributes of fiber media, the distinctiveness of fiber forms and multidimensional spatial construction. Today, it is a key player in contemporary artistic creation featuring unique perspectives and expressions of fiber art. In 2013, the institute hosted the Triennial of Fiber Art in Hangzhou, which opened the door to interactions between China's contemporary fiber art and global fiber art. This event serves as a high-level academic arena for the advancement of China's fiber art domain, while exerting enormous influence on the global fiber art world.
The institute keeps exploring and fostering the contemporary development and Eastern research and creations of fiber art, as it stays committed to promoting the diverse practices of in fiber art people's daily lives and public domains.
In September 2000, a studio of painting and calligraphy connoisseurship was created in the China Academy of Art. In November 2002, it was renamed the Chinese Painting and Calligraphy Connoisseurship Center, CAA. Academic objective: Art education perfects people and promotes cultural heritages. Areas of research: 1. Making all aspects of traditional painting and calligraphy connoisseurship systematical and rational. Enhancing the objectivity and reasonableness of painting and calligraphy connoisseurship based on its interdisciplinary features as well as the achievements in other disciplines; 2. Effecting a higher education system for Chinese painting and calligraphy connoisseurship to train connoisseurs. Research hub: The center is one of the first academic research institutes specializing in Chinese painting and calligraphy connoisseurship that are affiliated with colleges or universities in China.
The Modern Calligraphy Research Center was established on December 26, 2002. Over the past 16 years, the center has been committed to promoting the contemporary transformation and development of Chinese calligraphy, leading modern Chinese calligraphy research, practice and education, and planning, implementing and facilitating international exhibitions and seminars on contemporary art and calligraphy, with the great support of the leadership and the Research Development & Innovative Office, CAA. Based on CAA's extensive resources and multidisciplinary strengths in the calligraphy program, the center aims to "carry forward traditions, pioneer innovation, tackle educational issues and build a robust academic environment"
The center has gradually become an operational synthesis of higher education, exhibitions and scientific research, with two signature exhibitions: "Calligraphy and Beyond" and "Christmas Eve Calligraphy". So far, three editions of "Calligraphy and Beyond" has been held in 2005, 2010 and 2015, while "Christmas Eve Calligraphy" is held almost every year since its debut in 2006. They have pushed forward the center's academic activities, helping it deliver fruitful educational results and social impact, enhancing CAA's reputation.
The Art History Research Center aims to raise standards for the research on Chinese art history and lay the foundation for connecting art of the East and the West. Its major areas of research are the foundational ideas and classics of Chinese art history and the evolution of Chinese and Western art histories. Its research methodologies are based on art history and integrate stylistics, iconography, textual criticism, textology, history of ideas, history of culture, psychology, sociology, etc., as the center is working to create a paradigm of diversified art history research and showcase the colorful spiritual world of human beings.
Created in October 2003, the Institute for Collaborative Innovation in Chinese Visual Studies is fresh academic progress from the historical perspective of modern art made by the China Academy of Art in answer to the global development of visual culture, to study and establish Chinese models of art production and consumption.
Based in CAA, the institute collaborates with well-known art curation, critics, artists and scholars at home and abroad to dive into and criticize artistic systems, and to deliberate on the current status and prospects of Chinese artistic systems. It also organizes many exhibitions to seek feasible and creative exhibition models. The institute is dedicated to visual culture research and exhibition experiments. It tests and develops theories of visual culture and exhibition models through practices to facilitate Chinese study and reflection on modern visual rules.
The Historiography of Art History Research Center aims to build a first-class academic community engaging in the international research of art and culture. Its endeavors are focused on two areas: First, research on art history and history of historiography, to strengthen the traditional academia and expand its international influence; second, creation of a new paradigm of research on art history and contemporary culture to make it a new driving force for discipline development.
The center fully reviews the academic achievements in the history of art historiography in China and beyond, and digs into the historical origins and theoretical systems of related methodologies, with a view to comprehensively promoting the educational reform proposal for the "knowledge system for art history" through research. It is working to advance two systematical research programs, namely a research series on traditional Chinese painting history and a research series on art history and methodologies, to make them influential globally, as it aims to become an exemplary research center in China. The center is expected to study the core achievements and methodologies of Chinese and global art history from cross-cultural perspectives, figure out their academic origins, and analyze different scenarios of challenges, so as to understand their theoretical significance from the historical clues in and the discipline mix of the world academia. Research teams led by the center have carried out many academic projects at the national and provincial levels, laying a solid foundation for the knowledge system for art history. Besides, the center organizes a series of educational research activities. It has fully reviewed and facilitated the frontier research on Chinese art history, structured distinctive research perspectives on Chinese painting, expanded research areas and explored new research methods. It is striving to differentiate and analyze the creations, theories and connoisseurship of Chinese painting in the settings of the history of Chinese culture and thought. To this end, it closely collaborates with international academics.
The Research Center of Phenomenology of Art was set up in 2001 and renamed the Institute of Phenomenology of Art in December 2010. The Institute of Art Philosophy and Cultural Innovation became a potential research base of philosophy and social science in Zhejiang Province in May 2015, and was recognized as a key research base of philosophy and social science in Zhejiang in November 2017.
Basing itself in the China Academy of Art, the Institute of Phenomenology of Art works with famed artists and thinkers dedicated to phenomenology on the studies and lectures on the new areas of art philosophy and cultural innovation as well as regular or irregular art forums and exhibitions regularly. It also fosters interactions between art and ideas and emphasizes interdisciplinary integration as it is committed to creating a relationship and mechanism for theories and creations to coexist and interact. In addition, the institute gathers global resources, especially those related to core disciplines and key areas of research, to build a great platform for global cultural communication and exchange. Based on the development of world-class art education programs featuring Orientalism, the institute has completed interdisciplinary integration, improving its influence across academia. Since its inception, the institute has facilitated or led related research and academic exchanges in China and even across the globe, increasing the fame of scholarly artists and showcasing the high academic level of Chinese art research. It is committed to doctoral and postgraduate education based on practices and theories in fine arts, and has been highly acclaimed by Chinese and global academia for its endeavors and influence.
As urban and rural architecture converges in the midst of globalization, the center critically revitalizes local architectural traditions, theoretically based on the reflections upon the Western concepts of modern cities and architecture. With a focus on the commercialization of modern innovation results, the center has established a new system of Chinese local architecture design and education. It explores a new architectural culture that prioritizes local and sustainable research and design in keeping up with China's urbanization, while seizing the opportunities and addressing the issues arising from the coordinated urban-rural development in Zhejiang Province. The center zeroes in on fathoming the conflicts between heritage protection and pursuit of growth to reshape the local architectural aesthetics in China, especially local cultural characteristics in Zhejiang Province. It is working to revitalize local craftsmanship, and this includes architectural craftsmanship mechanisms in China, especially in Zhejiang Province, based on comprehensive field studies.
Based on the development of public culture and spatial aesthetics in the context of China's urbanization and urban-rural integration, the center is dedicated to multidisciplinary comprehensive research to push forward public art education and communication, create a high-quality urban-rural cultural ecosystem, and shape and improve regional cultural reputation.
Established in 2007, the Research Center for Humanities & Art Education leverages the disciplinary features and strengths of the Department of Ideology, Politics and Social Science Education to advocate and emphasize multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary exchange, collaboration and communication. In the context and landscape of art education, it is dedicated to developing ideology, politics, humanities, language as well as other disciplines and fostering research on related issues. By highlighting the role of humanities and social sciences in methodological exploration and practice of general knowledge, the center promotes academic communications between insiders and outsiders of art and art education and reaches out to other disciplines.
Since its establishment in 2008, the Ancient Chinese Calligraphy Research Center has stayed committed to carrying forward and fostering China's fine traditional culture, promoting the creation and theoretical research on ancient Chinese calligraphy, training calligraphy experts, and continuously creating remarkable calligraphy works. The center gathers celebrated professors, experts and scholars of the Department of Calligraphy, CAA, outstanding PhD and postgraduate students in ancient Chinese calligraphy, and calligraphy enthusiasts. Therefore, the center is influential across academia and a key driver of the development of the local cultural sector.
Established in 2008, the Intermedia Art Research Center conducts art practices and theoretical research based upon intermedia perspectives and experimental methodologies and is charged with education in the domain. In terms of theories, the center probes into multidisciplinary ideas and helps them interact from the angle of art. In terms of practice, it focuses on planning and organizing cultural projects of various topics to facilitate the connection, rather than assimilation, of sociology and aesthetics across many domains. In terms of social practice, the center has a strong association with architecture, museology, regional planning, and cultural creativity. Since its inception, the center has been upholding its experimental, academic and social elements in interdisciplinary research. It has carried out systematic investigation and practice on culture-art creation mechanism and synergy in collaboration with Chinese and globally acclaimed artists, scientists, philosophers, anthropologists, art historians and experts in other domains. As far as the public is concerned, these endeavors have provided more creative and constructive experiments of possibility as well as more academic and professional theoretical research for the contemporary and future development of art.
The China Academy of Art began its cultural heritage research when it was called National Academy of Art, which was established in 1928. Such research endeavors are crucial to CAA's art education and academic research. In the early 1950s, CAA created the "Office of Fork Art Heritage Research". In the late 1950s, the "Department of Folk Art" came into being. From the 1980s, CAA took the lead in enrolling the first cohort of postgraduates in folk art after the national college entrance examination was resumed in China. Academic treasures in the domain of cultural heritage research left by the older generations of CAA have been leading the new generations forward. Under the auspice of the academy, the Department of Design Arts, School of Design applied for setting up the "Zhejiang Research Base for Intangible Cultural Heritage" at CAA in 2008, as global cultural heritage research was booming. The base has been working on intangible cultural heritage projects, such as related research theories and methodologies, protection strategies and management rules, construction of a related education system, investigation and research, and the establishment of a database. In 2009, CAA created the "Cultural Heritage Research Center" based on the base, expanding its areas of research to many other areas covering intangible and tangible cultural heritages.
Established on June 16, 2000, the Research Center of Chinese Watercolor Painting has effected a theory and artistic language system for Chinese watercolor painting, telling China's stories from both Eastern and global perspectives. It conducts comparative analysis of Eastern and Western watercolor paintings with the essential goal to provide theories to support the advancement of Chinese watercolor painting.
Areas of research and innovation and major features of the center: The century-old Chinese watercolor painting has reached the international level, in terms of both practice and techniques, thanks to the endeavors of pioneers of old generations. Some Chinese watercolor painting works are ranked among the world's top masterpieces for their oriental elements. Nowadays, Chinese watercolor painting engages the interest of numerous people. However, there is still a long way to go in terms of the research on theories of Chinese watercolor painting, especially the review of oriental spirit. Deep explorations of Chinese local culture and spirit are absent. This hinders the development of Chinese watercolor painting. The center is dedicated to reviewing and digging into the theoretical structuring, methodologies and language research on Chinese watercolor painting, as a reliable and professional research platform for Chinese watercolor painting.
The Rock Painting Research Center explores new materials and art concepts and applies them to the research and creation of rock painting works, with a view to promoting Chinese painting.
The center zeroes in on the studies on the materials science of rock painting. It developed mineral pigments of thousands of hues, filling the gap in materials and tools for rock painting. It has the latest, the most varied and best rock painting materials among all research centers in China. Besides, the center focuses on academic exploration. It is dedicated to studying painting techniques and theories. It has started an advanced program for rock painting research and creation in combination with the education and research by the Department of Mural Painting at the School of Painting, and the Research Center for Western Chinese Culture. The center has carried out wide and in-depth field studies of culture and art at home and abroad. It is now a facility integrating scientific research, academic research, education and creation.
The Interactive Arts and Technology Institute is dedicated to integrating digital technologies with art to improve artistic expression, based on computer graphics and guided by software engineering theories as it keeps abreast of the state-of-the-art technologies for interactive art in the world. It aims to become an academic platform for the development, application and education of digital products.
The institute was created in September 2011. Guided by software engineering theories and based upon China's creative industry, it works to establish a multidisciplinary and cross-sectoral theoretical system integrating technologies and art in the arena of interactive art.
The Industrial Design and Research Institute gathers top-notch designers through the Design Innovation Center and the Department of Industrial Design, CAA, with an aim to build an exchange platform for industrial design and cultural creativity by leveraging the academic resources, reputation and talent pool of CAA. It pools forces from all sectors of society to advance the development of the design sector, serves CAA and the sector well, integrates design resources, improves design quality, trains outstanding experts, and promotes industrial design amidst industrial transformation and upgrade.
The China Academy of Art applied to the Hangzhou Municipal Government for establishing the Bauhaus Institute with the purpose of probing into the value of the "collections of modern Western design with Bauhaus as the core element". On May 9, 2011, the Bauhaus Institute, CAA was launched as per the approval of the Hangzhou Municipal Government.
The institute is devoted to the research of the collections of modern Western design with Bauhaus as the core element, planning and organization of related academic events, and researcher training. As the China Design Museum has been created, the institute becomes an organization for research, publication and talent training related to modern Western design with Bauhaus as the core element. It aims to function as an R&D base and key research institute for Chinese modern design education through academic research, education promotion and industry convergence, so as to provide China's creative industry with a platform and ideas.
Sound and visual arts have been an inseparable combination. They will be eventually perfectly integrated via 3D media, as 3D visualization technologies become full-fledged and popular. Global application of 3D audio-video technologies (dual 3D technologies) is in its preliminary stage. China will have enormous opportunities in the midst of an upcoming wave of new audio technologies. The Institute of 3D Sound and Image is committed to introducing, developing and fully grasping dual 3D technologies, especially 3D audio technology; strengthening its connection with domestic and international firms and experts in the said technologies; and creating a platform for communication and collaboration to promote the application and development of such technologies in China. The institute attempts to realize the widespread application and promotion of dual 3D technologies and lead a sound revolution. This will bring great changes and huge economic benefits to cultural initiatives and the cultural industry in China.
The China Research Institute for Culture and Design aims to inherit the essence of traditional culture through creative design. With a focus on the art of living, it endeavors to activate traditional Chinese culture in the present era, showcase a new aesthetic style of visual reading which suits both low and highbrow tastes, and provide global audience with outstanding Chinese cultural derivative works of art that can boast rich spiritual connotations.
The Center for Chinese Thoughts, Painting and Calligraphy devotes itself to carrying forward and promoting Chinese art. It focuses on exploring and reflecting upon the spirit of Chinese art. In collaboration with the No.3 Studio of the Department of Oil Painting, CAA, the center has created a platform for interplay between traditional Chinese culture and Western art through figurative painting. It looks into the relationship among the distinctive elements of Chinese cultural aesthetics, self-cultivation and the practices of painting and calligraphy, based on the history of Chinese thoughts, databases and digital humanities research. It has identified four areas of research, namely traditional Chinese painting, calligraphy, modern art and figurative painting and has been active in these domains for ten years, receiving attention from global academia.
The Research Center for Western Chinese Culture was created in the context of the launch of China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), to develop and disseminate the Silk Road culture and art. Based in the China Academy of Art, the center collaborates with other organizations, noted scholars and artists to conserve and restore Western Chinese Culture and art as well as historical sites along the Silk Road. It also delves into the research and creation related to Qiuci fresco, Buddhist art, etc. It strives to create an international academic platform to lead an academic trend in the domain and become a top-class research institute in its specialized areas in contribution to the BRI.
The center focuses on the study and creation associated with the Silk Road culture and art based on interdisciplinary research on visual arts involving fine arts, art theories, film, television and animation. These endeavors can drive education, including postgraduate programs such as Chinese Visualization, Research on Western Chinese Visual Culture, Theories and Practices of Chinese Painting, Research on and Creation of Fresco Theories, and Research and Creation of Film, Television and Animation.
The Fashion & Textile Research Centre was born in 2007 amidst CAA's strategic collaboration with the Hangzhou Municipal Government and the development of urban brands. As a platform dedicated to the development of national industries, talented designers, design education and research, the center fully leverages the strengths of CAA in culture and history, disciplines, international resources, and educational resources to build itself into a sharing platform for global fashion and textile resources, a global post-doctoral fellow center in the domain, a communication platform for designers, a research platform of Chinese silk and women's fashion, a research platform for national, provincial and municipal industry-university-research projects. Besides, it aims to build a strong international team of teachers to provide a full range of services for the local fashion and textile industry, corporate branding, core value promotion and talent training.
The Urban-Rural Development Research Institute was launched at the fourth strategic collaboration meeting between Hangzhou City and the China Academy of Art in May 2011. The institute gathers prominent experts in urban-rural development and cultural creativity. It is composed of Creativity and Planning Center, Branding Strategy Center, Industrial Development Center, and Communication Research Center. Based on the academic background and resources of CAA, Hangzhou's urban-rural development practices and the philosophy of collaborative innovation, the institute is active in promoting the sustainable and sound advancement of urbanization across China. It focuses on the development and research, brand planning, conceptual design, industrial analysis, and promotion of historic and cultural cities and streets, cultural and creative industrial parks, featured towns, and beautiful villages.
The Game Art Design Research Institute (Shangyu Research Institute) was created in the collaboration with the Shangyu District Government in October 2017, as an affiliate of the China Academy of Art. Benefiting from CAA's strengths in traditional art and primary discipline of drama, film and television, the institute is dedicated to exploring game art, with a focus on the design and research on modern digital games. It exerts influence on society while advancing educational reforms through many projects to figure out a higher art education model. The institute is a research entity integrating art education, project research and development, and social services.
The Eastern Design Research Institute was created by the China Academy of Art in response to drastic changes in the cultural, technological and economic landscapes in the world. It is an academic research entity aimed at advancing the innovation and integration of the design sector in China and putting in place a local eastern design system that can influence the globe.
The institute devotes itself to effecting and promoting a theoretical system for oriental design, exploring cutting-edge oriental design intelligence and innovation, disseminating ideas of oriental design and making such design visible in the world. It aims to become a think tank that provides new design ideas and favorable solutions for China and society to prosper and helps to boost the international community and economy with oriental design solutions.
Based in the China Academy of Art Library, the Research Center for Modern Art Literature is dedicated to exploring, collecting, reviewing and studying modern art resources and literature. It plans, arranges and conducts related scientific research, education and talent training programs in collaboration with the schools, departments, research institutes and functional departments of CAA. The center gathers core academic resources of CAA, mostly modern art literature, as it continues to enhance the competitiveness and influence of the CAA Library's resources in the Chinese and international academia. It gets involved in knowledge production, promotion and communication through seminars, exhibitions and publications. Also, it plans and implements the construction and research projects on digital humanities of modern art literature.
The center is committed to enlarging, enriching and deepening the CAA Library's core academic resources, building international platforms for collecting, reviewing and studying Eastern and Western modern art literature. It also gathers academic literature and digital humanities resources of visual arts featuring renowned instructors, masters and masterpieces, as it enhances collaborative innovation with educational programs, schools, departments and research and exhibition agencies. Through deep involvement in education, talent training and research programs, the center is able to produce, promote and communicate knowledge sustainably.
Rooted in CAA's academic foundations, the center explores, collects, reviews and studies the memories and history of visual arts by the interplay between reading and images in the context of globalized visual arts and media integration. By doing so, it can provide academic resources and inspiration for probing into, interpreting and activating visual ideas and modernity behind modern art as well as for reshaping the intrinsic nature of Chinese visual art.
In May 2021, the Research Center for Science & Technology and Art Integration was created with the aim to further collaborative research and development of science & technology and art. Apart from carrying out technological explorations and art practices to catalyze primary innovation, it integrates art and science and enriches art forms to empower social progress.
The center engages in research, education, and industrial collaboration. To pursue forward-looking, academically professional, and society-oriented research, it collaborates with scientists, artists, tech professionals, and scholars at home and abroad to conduct cross-sectoral practices and theoretical studies, train multidisciplinary researchers, and create an international innovation and research platform that blends sci-tech and art. At the same time, the center facilitates interdisciplinary education and research at CAA, offers a base to try out novel art practices, and encourages communication, demonstration, and social cooperation.
The Research Institute for Chinese Painting Studies was created in June 2021.
The institute aims to develop itself into an institution of advanced creation and research of Chinese painting with both strong artistic and academic elements.
Based on the traditions, modern forms, and future trends of national paintings in China, it promotes advanced, in-depth, and cutting-edge research on topics relevant to Chinese painting studies as it strives to become a specialized and research-oriented agency with global influence.
As a dedicated research hub with access to the China Academy of Art's extensive resources, the institute is dedicated to forming the system of Orientalism of Visual Arts. In addition, it concentrates on the development of modern humanities and the exploration of new liberal arts that transcend professional boundaries.
The institute is a Young Scholar Platform Development Project supported by the Changjiang Scholars Program under China's Ministry of Education.
Research Institute of Beautiful China Initiative
Published on: June 16, 2022
The Research Institute of Beautiful China Initiative was created in response to the national need for high-quality development to contribute to the Beautiful China Initiative. It gathers experts from home and abroad in the domains of art, design, science, technology, sociology, culture, and ecology, as a research and innovation platform covering artist think tank, public aesthetics and social innovation. It strives to propel urban renewal, foster rural revitalization, empower social art education, and contribute to building a beautiful China.
Created in June 2021, the institute works to blend the beauty of the environment, lifestyles, society, era, and people, while connecting the beauty of culture and the physical world. With a deep presence in Zhejiang Province and influence throughout the country, the institute pushes forward the building of a beautiful China and the development of ecological civilization. It has three divisions, namely Urban-Rural Development Artist Think Tank, Public Art Education Center, and Social Service Co-Creation Center. It strives to attain three primary objectives involving public affairs, industry, research, education, innovation, and media: supporting urban-rural development planning decision-making, taking part in the top-level design of urban-rural aesthetics, and fostering a diversified urban-rural development ecosystem
The Media City R&D Center is a creative R&D institution integrating the development of media technologies, city research, and multimedia art practices. It generates creative ideas by combining social forces and intellectual resources at the China Academy of Art. To foster a new urban living environment, new social relationships, new industrial models, and new lifestyles, the center carries out pioneering media art experiments to facilitate the self-renewal of cities. Its extensive media city practices can spur intellectual production in education.
Based on media city research, the center enriches media art, participates in modern urban development, inspires imagination of future living, and integrates intellectual resources, as it endeavors to become a motivator for incorporating modern arts into urban renewal and advancing social ideas.
Based on the China Academy of Art's traditional art achievements and the drama, film and television studies as a primary discipline, the China-Chic Art Research Institute aims to spur the creative transformation of traditional Chinese culture in modern times and explore how to combine traditional culture with trendy cultures.
The institute engages in project implementation, education, and industry-university-research collaboration. To pursue trendy, academically professional and industry-oriented research, it joins forces with local and international industry experts, artists, and scholars to conduct cross-sectoral programs and practices. It also facilitates distinctive education and research at CAA as a "Double First-class" academy. It works with talents from all areas of art for cross-sectoral research on the creative and fashionable expression of traditional Chinese culture.
Since its establishment in 2008, the Ancient Chinese Calligraphy Research Center has stayed committed to carrying forward and fostering China's fine traditional culture, promoting the creation and theoretical research on ancient Chinese calligraphy, training calligraphy experts, and continuously creating remarkable calligraphy works. The center gathers celebrated professors, experts and scholars of the Department of Calligraphy, CAA, outstanding PhD and postgraduate students in ancient Chinese calligraphy, and calligraphy enthusiasts. Therefore, the center is influential across academia and a key driver of the development of the local cultural sector.
Since its establishment in 2008, the Ancient Chinese Calligraphy Research Center has stayed committed to carrying forward and fostering China's fine traditional culture, promoting the creation and theoretical research on ancient Chinese calligraphy, training calligraphy experts, and continuously creating remarkable calligraphy works. The center gathers celebrated professors, experts and scholars of the Department of Calligraphy, CAA, outstanding PhD and postgraduate students in ancient Chinese calligraphy, and calligraphy enthusiasts. Therefore, the center is influential across academia and a key driver of the development of the local cultural sector.
Since its establishment in 2008, the Ancient Chinese Calligraphy Research Center has stayed committed to carrying forward and fostering China's fine traditional culture, promoting the creation and theoretical research on ancient Chinese calligraphy, training calligraphy experts, and continuously creating remarkable calligraphy works. The center gathers celebrated professors, experts and scholars of the Department of Calligraphy, CAA, outstanding PhD and postgraduate students in ancient Chinese calligraphy, and calligraphy enthusiasts. Therefore, the center is influential across academia and a key driver of the development of the local cultural sector.
As urban and rural architecture converges in the midst of globalization, the center critically revitalizes local architectural traditions, theoretically based on the reflections upon the Western concepts of modern cities and architecture. With a focus on the commercialization of modern innovation results, the center has established a new system of Chinese local architecture design and education. It explores a new architectural culture that prioritizes local and sustainable research and design in keeping up with China's urbanization, while seizing the opportunities and addressing the issues arising from the coordinated urban-rural development in Zhejiang Province. The center zeroes in on fathoming the conflicts between heritage protection and pursuit of growth to reshape the local architectural aesthetics in China, especially local cultural characteristics in Zhejiang Province. It is working to revitalize local craftsmanship, and this includes architectural craftsmanship mechanisms in China, especially in Zhejiang Province, based on comprehensive field studies.
As urban and rural architecture converges in the midst of globalization, the center critically revitalizes local architectural traditions, theoretically based on the reflections upon the Western concepts of modern cities and architecture. With a focus on the commercialization of modern innovation results, the center has established a new system of Chinese local architecture design and education. It explores a new architectural culture that prioritizes local and sustainable research and design in keeping up with China's urbanization, while seizing the opportunities and addressing the issues arising from the coordinated urban-rural development in Zhejiang Province. The center zeroes in on fathoming the conflicts between heritage protection and pursuit of growth to reshape the local architectural aesthetics in China, especially local cultural characteristics in Zhejiang Province. It is working to revitalize local craftsmanship, and this includes architectural craftsmanship mechanisms in China, especially in Zhejiang Province, based on comprehensive field studies.
The Art History Research Center aims to raise standards for the research on Chinese art history and lay the foundation for connecting art of the East and the West. Its major areas of research are the foundational ideas and classics of Chinese art history and the evolution of Chinese and Western art histories. Its research methodologies are based on art history and integrate stylistics, iconography, textual criticism, textology, history of ideas, history of culture, psychology, sociology, etc., as the center is working to create a paradigm of diversified art history research and showcase the colorful spiritual world of human beings.
The Art History Research Center aims to raise standards for the research on Chinese art history and lay the foundation for connecting art of the East and the West. Its major areas of research are the foundational ideas and classics of Chinese art history and the evolution of Chinese and Western art histories. Its research methodologies are based on art history and integrate stylistics, iconography, textual criticism, textology, history of ideas, history of culture, psychology, sociology, etc., as the center is working to create a paradigm of diversified art history research and showcase the colorful spiritual world of human beings.
The Art History Research Center aims to raise standards for the research on Chinese art history and lay the foundation for connecting art of the East and the West. Its major areas of research are the foundational ideas and classics of Chinese art history and the evolution of Chinese and Western art histories. Its research methodologies are based on art history and integrate stylistics, iconography, textual criticism, textology, history of ideas, history of culture, psychology, sociology, etc., as the center is working to create a paradigm of diversified art history research and showcase the colorful spiritual world of human beings.
The Art History Research Center aims to raise standards for the research on Chinese art history and lay the foundation for connecting art of the East and the West. Its major areas of research are the foundational ideas and classics of Chinese art history and the evolution of Chinese and Western art histories. Its research methodologies are based on art history and integrate stylistics, iconography, textual criticism, textology, history of ideas, history of culture, psychology, sociology, etc., as the center is working to create a paradigm of diversified art history research and showcase the colorful spiritual world of human beings.
The Art History Research Center aims to raise standards for the research on Chinese art history and lay the foundation for connecting art of the East and the West. Its major areas of research are the foundational ideas and classics of Chinese art history and the evolution of Chinese and Western art histories. Its research methodologies are based on art history and integrate stylistics, iconography, textual criticism, textology, history of ideas, history of culture, psychology, sociology, etc., as the center is working to create a paradigm of diversified art history research and showcase the colorful spiritual world of human beings.
The Art History Research Center aims to raise standards for the research on Chinese art history and lay the foundation for connecting art of the East and the West. Its major areas of research are the foundational ideas and classics of Chinese art history and the evolution of Chinese and Western art histories. Its research methodologies are based on art history and integrate stylistics, iconography, textual criticism, textology, history of ideas, history of culture, psychology, sociology, etc., as the center is working to create a paradigm of diversified art history research and showcase the colorful spiritual world of human beings.
The Art History Research Center aims to raise standards for the research on Chinese art history and lay the foundation for connecting art of the East and the West. Its major areas of research are the foundational ideas and classics of Chinese art history and the evolution of Chinese and Western art histories. Its research methodologies are based on art history and integrate stylistics, iconography, textual criticism, textology, history of ideas, history of culture, psychology, sociology, etc., as the center is working to create a paradigm of diversified art history research and showcase the colorful spiritual world of human beings.
In 2018, the Base for Traditional Chinese Painting & Calligraphy, CAA was recognized as one of the first bases for carrying forward traditional Chinese culture in universities by China's Ministry of Education. The major objective of the base is to amplify the value of modern education of traditional Chinese painting and calligraphy to carry forward traditional Chinese culture. The base is committed to delving into traditional culture and art to empower public art education, social education, and government decision-making. It promotes research and innovation achievements, general education, community betterment, textbook development, curriculum sharing, social practice, and art think tank among universities, primary and secondary schools, social groups, communities and towns, to facilitate the preservation, restoration, innovative development, and popularity of traditional Chinese painting and calligraphy. These will benefit the masses and foster the prosperity and innovation of Chinese culture.
In 2018, the Base for Traditional Chinese Painting & Calligraphy, CAA was recognized as one of the first bases for carrying forward traditional Chinese culture in universities by China's Ministry of Education. The major objective of the base is to amplify the value of modern education of traditional Chinese painting and calligraphy to carry forward traditional Chinese culture. The base is committed to delving into traditional culture and art to empower public art education, social education, and government decision-making. It promotes research and innovation achievements, general education, community betterment, textbook development, curriculum sharing, social practice, and art think tank among universities, primary and secondary schools, social groups, communities and towns, to facilitate the preservation, restoration, innovative development, and popularity of traditional Chinese painting and calligraphy. These will benefit the masses and foster the prosperity and innovation of Chinese culture.
The China Academy of Art applied to the Hangzhou Municipal Government for establishing the Bauhaus Institute with the purpose of probing into the value of the "collections of modern Western design with Bauhaus as the core element". On May 9, 2011, the Bauhaus Institute, CAA was launched as per the approval of the Hangzhou Municipal Government.
The institute is devoted to the research of the collections of modern Western design with Bauhaus as the core element, planning and organization of related academic events, and researcher training. As the China Design Museum has been created, the institute becomes an organization for research, publication and talent training related to modern Western design with Bauhaus as the core element. It aims to function as an R&D base and key research institute for Chinese modern design education through academic research, education promotion and industry convergence, so as to provide China's creative industry with a platform and ideas.
The Center for Chinese Thoughts, Painting and Calligraphy devotes itself to carrying forward and promoting Chinese art. It focuses on exploring and reflecting upon the spirit of Chinese art. In collaboration with the No.3 Studio of the Department of Oil Painting, CAA, the center has created a platform for interplay between traditional Chinese culture and Western art through figurative painting. It looks into the relationship among the distinctive elements of Chinese cultural aesthetics, self-cultivation and the practices of painting and calligraphy, based on the history of Chinese thoughts, databases and digital humanities research. It has identified four areas of research, namely traditional Chinese painting, calligraphy, modern art and figurative painting and has been active in these domains for ten years, receiving attention from global academia.
The China Research Institute for Culture and Design aims to inherit the essence of traditional culture through creative design. With a focus on the art of living, it endeavors to activate traditional Chinese culture in the present era, showcase a new aesthetic style of visual reading which suits both low and highbrow tastes, and provide global audience with outstanding Chinese cultural derivative works of art that can boast rich spiritual connotations.
Based on the China Academy of Art's traditional art achievements and the drama, film and television studies as a primary discipline, the China-Chic Art Research Institute aims to spur the creative transformation of traditional Chinese culture in modern times and explore how to combine traditional culture with trendy cultures.
The institute engages in project implementation, education, and industry-university-research collaboration. To pursue trendy, academically professional and industry-oriented research, it joins forces with local and international industry experts, artists, and scholars to conduct cross-sectoral programs and practices. It also facilitates distinctive education and research at CAA as a "Double First-class" academy. It works with talents from all areas of art for cross-sectoral research on the creative and fashionable expression of traditional Chinese culture.
Based on the China Academy of Art's traditional art achievements and the drama, film and television studies as a primary discipline, the China-Chic Art Research Institute aims to spur the creative transformation of traditional Chinese culture in modern times and explore how to combine traditional culture with trendy cultures.
The institute engages in project implementation, education, and industry-university-research collaboration. To pursue trendy, academically professional and industry-oriented research, it joins forces with local and international industry experts, artists, and scholars to conduct cross-sectoral programs and practices. It also facilitates distinctive education and research at CAA as a "Double First-class" academy. It works with talents from all areas of art for cross-sectoral research on the creative and fashionable expression of traditional Chinese culture.
In September 2000, a studio of painting and calligraphy connoisseurship was created in the China Academy of Art. In November 2002, it was renamed the Chinese Painting and Calligraphy Connoisseurship Center, CAA. Academic objective: Art education perfects people and promotes cultural heritages. Areas of research: 1. Making all aspects of traditional painting and calligraphy connoisseurship systematical and rational. Enhancing the objectivity and reasonableness of painting and calligraphy connoisseurship based on its interdisciplinary features as well as the achievements in other disciplines; 2. Effecting a higher education system for Chinese painting and calligraphy connoisseurship to train connoisseurs. Research hub: The center is one of the first academic research institutes specializing in Chinese painting and calligraphy connoisseurship that are affiliated with colleges or universities in China.
In September 2000, a studio of painting and calligraphy connoisseurship was created in the China Academy of Art. In November 2002, it was renamed the Chinese Painting and Calligraphy Connoisseurship Center, CAA. Academic objective: Art education perfects people and promotes cultural heritages. Areas of research: 1. Making all aspects of traditional painting and calligraphy connoisseurship systematical and rational. Enhancing the objectivity and reasonableness of painting and calligraphy connoisseurship based on its interdisciplinary features as well as the achievements in other disciplines; 2. Effecting a higher education system for Chinese painting and calligraphy connoisseurship to train connoisseurs. Research hub: The center is one of the first academic research institutes specializing in Chinese painting and calligraphy connoisseurship that are affiliated with colleges or universities in China.
In September 2000, a studio of painting and calligraphy connoisseurship was created in the China Academy of Art. In November 2002, it was renamed the Chinese Painting and Calligraphy Connoisseurship Center, CAA. Academic objective: Art education perfects people and promotes cultural heritages. Areas of research: 1. Making all aspects of traditional painting and calligraphy connoisseurship systematical and rational. Enhancing the objectivity and reasonableness of painting and calligraphy connoisseurship based on its interdisciplinary features as well as the achievements in other disciplines; 2. Effecting a higher education system for Chinese painting and calligraphy connoisseurship to train connoisseurs. Research hub: The center is one of the first academic research institutes specializing in Chinese painting and calligraphy connoisseurship that are affiliated with colleges or universities in China.
In September 2000, a studio of painting and calligraphy connoisseurship was created in the China Academy of Art. In November 2002, it was renamed the Chinese Painting and Calligraphy Connoisseurship Center, CAA. Academic objective: Art education perfects people and promotes cultural heritages. Areas of research: 1. Making all aspects of traditional painting and calligraphy connoisseurship systematical and rational. Enhancing the objectivity and reasonableness of painting and calligraphy connoisseurship based on its interdisciplinary features as well as the achievements in other disciplines; 2. Effecting a higher education system for Chinese painting and calligraphy connoisseurship to train connoisseurs. Research hub: The center is one of the first academic research institutes specializing in Chinese painting and calligraphy connoisseurship that are affiliated with colleges or universities in China.
In September 2000, a studio of painting and calligraphy connoisseurship was created in the China Academy of Art. In November 2002, it was renamed the Chinese Painting and Calligraphy Connoisseurship Center, CAA. Academic objective: Art education perfects people and promotes cultural heritages. Areas of research: 1. Making all aspects of traditional painting and calligraphy connoisseurship systematical and rational. Enhancing the objectivity and reasonableness of painting and calligraphy connoisseurship based on its interdisciplinary features as well as the achievements in other disciplines; 2. Effecting a higher education system for Chinese painting and calligraphy connoisseurship to train connoisseurs. Research hub: The center is one of the first academic research institutes specializing in Chinese painting and calligraphy connoisseurship that are affiliated with colleges or universities in China.
In September 2000, a studio of painting and calligraphy connoisseurship was created in the China Academy of Art. In November 2002, it was renamed the Chinese Painting and Calligraphy Connoisseurship Center, CAA. Academic objective: Art education perfects people and promotes cultural heritages. Areas of research: 1. Making all aspects of traditional painting and calligraphy connoisseurship systematical and rational. Enhancing the objectivity and reasonableness of painting and calligraphy connoisseurship based on its interdisciplinary features as well as the achievements in other disciplines; 2. Effecting a higher education system for Chinese painting and calligraphy connoisseurship to train connoisseurs. Research hub: The center is one of the first academic research institutes specializing in Chinese painting and calligraphy connoisseurship that are affiliated with colleges or universities in China.
In September 2000, a studio of painting and calligraphy connoisseurship was created in the China Academy of Art. In November 2002, it was renamed the Chinese Painting and Calligraphy Connoisseurship Center, CAA. Academic objective: Art education perfects people and promotes cultural heritages. Areas of research: 1. Making all aspects of traditional painting and calligraphy connoisseurship systematical and rational. Enhancing the objectivity and reasonableness of painting and calligraphy connoisseurship based on its interdisciplinary features as well as the achievements in other disciplines; 2. Effecting a higher education system for Chinese painting and calligraphy connoisseurship to train connoisseurs. Research hub: The center is one of the first academic research institutes specializing in Chinese painting and calligraphy connoisseurship that are affiliated with colleges or universities in China.
In September 2000, a studio of painting and calligraphy connoisseurship was created in the China Academy of Art. In November 2002, it was renamed the Chinese Painting and Calligraphy Connoisseurship Center, CAA. Academic objective: Art education perfects people and promotes cultural heritages. Areas of research: 1. Making all aspects of traditional painting and calligraphy connoisseurship systematical and rational. Enhancing the objectivity and reasonableness of painting and calligraphy connoisseurship based on its interdisciplinary features as well as the achievements in other disciplines; 2. Effecting a higher education system for Chinese painting and calligraphy connoisseurship to train connoisseurs. Research hub: The center is one of the first academic research institutes specializing in Chinese painting and calligraphy connoisseurship that are affiliated with colleges or universities in China.
Established in December 1993, the Color Research Institute is China's first research institute focusing on fundamental theories of color applications and social experiments in the domain of plastic arts. The story began when Song Jianming, a faculty member of the China Academy of Art who returned from study in France, was sponsored by the Fok Ying Tung Education Foundation as a selected young lecturer under the State Education Commission for his project called "Fundamental Color Research and Systematic Application". It was in this context that an institute specializing in color research was set up to address the issues relating to color applications amidst China's urbanization. In the very beginning, a standard color application system (3,000 equal color difference) was created. In the past 20 years, the institute has been leading nationwide research on urban color planning, design and construction.
Founded in April 1986 by the famous Bulgarian Artist of Merit, Prof. Maryn Ivanov Varbanov, who was one of the most influential figures in the history of Chinese and global contemporary art, the Varbanov Fiber Art Research Center has been immersed in avant-garde practices and education in contemporary fiber art. It was officially named by China's Ministry of Culture and renamed the Contemporary Fiber Art Institute in 2015.
The Contemporary Fiber Art Institute, CAA has been leading fiber art research and education in China over the past 32 years, and has pioneered the distinctive academic orientations of the country's contemporary plastic arts. Guided by Prof. Maryn Ivanov Varbanov's pioneering spirit, the institute is committed to facilitating, studying and developing the practices and theories of contemporary fiber art. It is engaged in in-depth explorations of the social attributes of fiber media, the distinctiveness of fiber forms and multidimensional spatial construction. Today, it is a key player in contemporary artistic creation featuring unique perspectives and expressions of fiber art. In 2013, the institute hosted the Triennial of Fiber Art in Hangzhou, which opened the door to interactions between China's contemporary fiber art and global fiber art. This event serves as a high-level academic arena for the advancement of China's fiber art domain, while exerting enormous influence on the global fiber art world.
The institute keeps exploring and fostering the contemporary development and Eastern research and creations of fiber art, as it stays committed to promoting the diverse practices of in fiber art people's daily lives and public domains.
Founded in April 1986 by the famous Bulgarian Artist of Merit, Prof. Maryn Ivanov Varbanov, who was one of the most influential figures in the history of Chinese and global contemporary art, the Varbanov Fiber Art Research Center has been immersed in avant-garde practices and education in contemporary fiber art. It was officially named by China's Ministry of Culture and renamed the Contemporary Fiber Art Institute in 2015.
The Contemporary Fiber Art Institute, CAA has been leading fiber art research and education in China over the past 32 years, and has pioneered the distinctive academic orientations of the country's contemporary plastic arts. Guided by Prof. Maryn Ivanov Varbanov's pioneering spirit, the institute is committed to facilitating, studying and developing the practices and theories of contemporary fiber art. It is engaged in in-depth explorations of the social attributes of fiber media, the distinctiveness of fiber forms and multidimensional spatial construction. Today, it is a key player in contemporary artistic creation featuring unique perspectives and expressions of fiber art. In 2013, the institute hosted the Triennial of Fiber Art in Hangzhou, which opened the door to interactions between China's contemporary fiber art and global fiber art. This event serves as a high-level academic arena for the advancement of China's fiber art domain, while exerting enormous influence on the global fiber art world.
The institute keeps exploring and fostering the contemporary development and Eastern research and creations of fiber art, as it stays committed to promoting the diverse practices of in fiber art people's daily lives and public domains.
The China Academy of Art began its cultural heritage research when it was called National Academy of Art, which was established in 1928. Such research endeavors are crucial to CAA's art education and academic research. In the early 1950s, CAA created the "Office of Fork Art Heritage Research". In the late 1950s, the "Department of Folk Art" came into being. From the 1980s, CAA took the lead in enrolling the first cohort of postgraduates in folk art after the national college entrance examination was resumed in China. Academic treasures in the domain of cultural heritage research left by the older generations of CAA have been leading the new generations forward. Under the auspice of the academy, the Department of Design Arts, School of Design applied for setting up the "Zhejiang Research Base for Intangible Cultural Heritage" at CAA in 2008, as global cultural heritage research was booming. The base has been working on intangible cultural heritage projects, such as related research theories and methodologies, protection strategies and management rules, construction of a related education system, investigation and research, and the establishment of a database. In 2009, CAA created the "Cultural Heritage Research Center" based on the base, expanding its areas of research to many other areas covering intangible and tangible cultural heritages.
The China Academy of Art began its cultural heritage research when it was called National Academy of Art, which was established in 1928. Such research endeavors are crucial to CAA's art education and academic research. In the early 1950s, CAA created the "Office of Fork Art Heritage Research". In the late 1950s, the "Department of Folk Art" came into being. From the 1980s, CAA took the lead in enrolling the first cohort of postgraduates in folk art after the national college entrance examination was resumed in China. Academic treasures in the domain of cultural heritage research left by the older generations of CAA have been leading the new generations forward. Under the auspice of the academy, the Department of Design Arts, School of Design applied for setting up the "Zhejiang Research Base for Intangible Cultural Heritage" at CAA in 2008, as global cultural heritage research was booming. The base has been working on intangible cultural heritage projects, such as related research theories and methodologies, protection strategies and management rules, construction of a related education system, investigation and research, and the establishment of a database. In 2009, CAA created the "Cultural Heritage Research Center" based on the base, expanding its areas of research to many other areas covering intangible and tangible cultural heritages.
The Design Industry Innovation Center (DIIC) is one of the first innovation centers founded by universities in Zhejiang Province under the guidance of the "Program 2011" (Program for the Elevation of Universities' Innovation Capabilities). DIIC collaborates with the Peking University, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and Hangzhou Municipal Government to carry out regional development research.
To meet the great need for transformation and upgrade of national and local manufacturing in China, DIIC focuses on promoting the industry and training talents, guided by "Eastern Design" ideas, motivated by cultural innovation, and powered by technology transfers and combined effects. It aims to be a model helping Zhejiang transform into a major center of manufacturing as well as a model for displaying the value of culture in today's China by further strengthening the link between culture and the industry.
Design-AI Lab ("D-AI") was established in 2015. In 2021, the lab was recognized as one of the philosophy and social sciences labs by China's Ministry of Education. Under the strategy of developing a strong culture in China, and with the aim to improve and evolve cultural and art creation and cultural and creative design in the digital age, D-AI integrates the Internet of Things, perceptual computing, mixed reality and swarm intelligence network to solve the key issues relating to the content, techniques, and application of cultural designs. These can help to improve China's soft power and build D-AI into a world-class lab of design 4.0 in the intelligent era.
Design-AI Lab ("D-AI") was established in 2015. In 2021, the lab was recognized as one of the philosophy and social sciences labs by China's Ministry of Education. Under the strategy of developing a strong culture in China, and with the aim to improve and evolve cultural and art creation and cultural and creative design in the digital age, D-AI integrates the Internet of Things, perceptual computing, mixed reality and swarm intelligence network to solve the key issues relating to the content, techniques, and application of cultural designs. These can help to improve China's soft power and build D-AI into a world-class lab of design 4.0 in the intelligent era.
Design-AI Lab ("D-AI") was established in 2015. In 2021, the lab was recognized as one of the philosophy and social sciences labs by China's Ministry of Education. Under the strategy of developing a strong culture in China, and with the aim to improve and evolve cultural and art creation and cultural and creative design in the digital age, D-AI integrates the Internet of Things, perceptual computing, mixed reality and swarm intelligence network to solve the key issues relating to the content, techniques, and application of cultural designs. These can help to improve China's soft power and build D-AI into a world-class lab of design 4.0 in the intelligent era.
Design-AI Lab ("D-AI") was established in 2015. In 2021, the lab was recognized as one of the philosophy and social sciences labs by China's Ministry of Education. Under the strategy of developing a strong culture in China, and with the aim to improve and evolve cultural and art creation and cultural and creative design in the digital age, D-AI integrates the Internet of Things, perceptual computing, mixed reality and swarm intelligence network to solve the key issues relating to the content, techniques, and application of cultural designs. These can help to improve China's soft power and build D-AI into a world-class lab of design 4.0 in the intelligent era.
Design-AI Lab ("D-AI") was established in 2015. In 2021, the lab was recognized as one of the philosophy and social sciences labs by China's Ministry of Education. Under the strategy of developing a strong culture in China, and with the aim to improve and evolve cultural and art creation and cultural and creative design in the digital age, D-AI integrates the Internet of Things, perceptual computing, mixed reality and swarm intelligence network to solve the key issues relating to the content, techniques, and application of cultural designs. These can help to improve China's soft power and build D-AI into a world-class lab of design 4.0 in the intelligent era.
Design-AI Lab ("D-AI") was established in 2015. In 2021, the lab was recognized as one of the philosophy and social sciences labs by China's Ministry of Education. Under the strategy of developing a strong culture in China, and with the aim to improve and evolve cultural and art creation and cultural and creative design in the digital age, D-AI integrates the Internet of Things, perceptual computing, mixed reality and swarm intelligence network to solve the key issues relating to the content, techniques, and application of cultural designs. These can help to improve China's soft power and build D-AI into a world-class lab of design 4.0 in the intelligent era.
Design-AI Lab ("D-AI") was established in 2015. In 2021, the lab was recognized as one of the philosophy and social sciences labs by China's Ministry of Education. Under the strategy of developing a strong culture in China, and with the aim to improve and evolve cultural and art creation and cultural and creative design in the digital age, D-AI integrates the Internet of Things, perceptual computing, mixed reality and swarm intelligence network to solve the key issues relating to the content, techniques, and application of cultural designs. These can help to improve China's soft power and build D-AI into a world-class lab of design 4.0 in the intelligent era.
Design-AI Lab ("D-AI") was established in 2015. In 2021, the lab was recognized as one of the philosophy and social sciences labs by China's Ministry of Education. Under the strategy of developing a strong culture in China, and with the aim to improve and evolve cultural and art creation and cultural and creative design in the digital age, D-AI integrates the Internet of Things, perceptual computing, mixed reality and swarm intelligence network to solve the key issues relating to the content, techniques, and application of cultural designs. These can help to improve China's soft power and build D-AI into a world-class lab of design 4.0 in the intelligent era.
The Eastern Design Research Institute was created by the China Academy of Art in response to drastic changes in the cultural, technological and economic landscapes in the world. It is an academic research entity aimed at advancing the innovation and integration of the design sector in China and putting in place a local eastern design system that can influence the globe.
The institute devotes itself to effecting and promoting a theoretical system for oriental design, exploring cutting-edge oriental design intelligence and innovation, disseminating ideas of oriental design and making such design visible in the world. It aims to become a think tank that provides new design ideas and favorable solutions for China and society to prosper and helps to boost the international community and economy with oriental design solutions.
The Eastern Design Research Institute was created by the China Academy of Art in response to drastic changes in the cultural, technological and economic landscapes in the world. It is an academic research entity aimed at advancing the innovation and integration of the design sector in China and putting in place a local eastern design system that can influence the globe.
The institute devotes itself to effecting and promoting a theoretical system for oriental design, exploring cutting-edge oriental design intelligence and innovation, disseminating ideas of oriental design and making such design visible in the world. It aims to become a think tank that provides new design ideas and favorable solutions for China and society to prosper and helps to boost the international community and economy with oriental design solutions.
The Eastern Design Research Institute was created by the China Academy of Art in response to drastic changes in the cultural, technological and economic landscapes in the world. It is an academic research entity aimed at advancing the innovation and integration of the design sector in China and putting in place a local eastern design system that can influence the globe.
The institute devotes itself to effecting and promoting a theoretical system for oriental design, exploring cutting-edge oriental design intelligence and innovation, disseminating ideas of oriental design and making such design visible in the world. It aims to become a think tank that provides new design ideas and favorable solutions for China and society to prosper and helps to boost the international community and economy with oriental design solutions.
The Fashion & Textile Research Centre was born in 2007 amidst CAA's strategic collaboration with the Hangzhou Municipal Government and the development of urban brands. As a platform dedicated to the development of national industries, talented designers, design education and research, the center fully leverages the strengths of CAA in culture and history, disciplines, international resources, and educational resources to build itself into a sharing platform for global fashion and textile resources, a global post-doctoral fellow center in the domain, a communication platform for designers, a research platform of Chinese silk and women's fashion, a research platform for national, provincial and municipal industry-university-research projects. Besides, it aims to build a strong international team of teachers to provide a full range of services for the local fashion and textile industry, corporate branding, core value promotion and talent training.
The Game Art Design Research Institute (Shangyu Research Institute) was created in the collaboration with the Shangyu District Government in October 2017, as an affiliate of the China Academy of Art. Benefiting from CAA's strengths in traditional art and primary discipline of drama, film and television, the institute is dedicated to exploring game art, with a focus on the design and research on modern digital games. It exerts influence on society while advancing educational reforms through many projects to figure out a higher art education model. The institute is a research entity integrating art education, project research and development, and social services.
