CityU hosts 7th International Creative Management Conference and Forum of Education Innovation on Cultural Industries Courses and Chinese Intangible Cultural Heritage Crafts (Macau) Biennial Exhibition
The 7th International Creative Management Conference and Forum of Education Innovation on Cultural Industries Courses, along with the Chinese Intangible Cultural Heritage Crafts (Macau) Biennial Exhibition, organized by City University of Macau (CityU), inaugurated yesterday at the Taipa campus. This year’s conference was sponsored by the Macao Foundation.
The event featured an academic forum and an art exhibition, aiming to explore innovative ways of inheriting traditional culture in contemporary contexts. The Chinese Intangible Cultural Heritage Crafts (Macau) Biennial Exhibition brought together early 80 representative works from thirty-two national and provincial-level masters of arts and crafts, as well as inheritors of intangible cultural heritage. Through physical exhibits and interactive display, the event showcased innovative cross-disciplinary achievements in intangible heritage techniques.
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The donation ceremony of intangible cultural heritage took place during the Chinese Intangible Cultural Heritage Crafts (Macau) Biennial Exhibition, several national-level heritage treasures were officially presented to CityU. These included:
- A painted pottery basin with a curved body and petal patterns inspired by Yangshao culture, featuring the CityU’s emblem, donated by the Shenyang Imperial Museum;
- A lacquer plate painted with one of the eight scenic spots in Yangjing, “Juyongguan Great Wall in Green”, presented by the Beijing Eight Imperial Handicrafts Museum;
- A Suzhou embroidery artwork showcasing a blue and white vase adorned with intricate dragon patterns, crafted by a representative inheritor Yao Huifen of this intangible heritage;
- A Yunjin brocade artwork depicting the maritime expedition of Zheng He, donated by the Nanjing Yunjin Brocade Research Institute;
- A Cloisonne basin adorned with floral patterns, presented by a master of jingtailan Zhong Liansheng;
- A pair of painted ceramic master cups, donated by a Jingdezhen inheritor Wan Yuting.
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At the International Creative Management Conference and Forum of Education Innovation on Cultural Industries Courses, experts and professors delivered engaging speeches on various key areas of the creative cultural industries, jointly exploring pathways for the inheritance and innovation in the field and discussing innovations in education. The themes focused on technology and creativity, creative management in the era of artificial intelligence (AI), history and development pathways for cultural creativity in museums, the dissemination of Chinese culture, cultural trade, the preservation and innovative development of cultural arts, cultural diversity and creative entrepreneurship, innovation in intangible cultural heritage techniques, the creation of cultural IP and the development of world tourism destinations, the transformation of ideology and identity, as well as geopolitical risks and technology innovation strategies.
For details, please read the Chinese version.
Source: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
