Students’ Work of CityU Is Selected in the “Design for China–The 8th National Environmental Art Design Exhibition”

On October 20, the “Design for China--The 8th National Environmental Art Design Exhibition & Symposium” hosted by the Chinese Artists Association and organized by the Environmental Design Art Committee of the Chinese Artists Association was opened at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts.

The design work of Zhou Lei, Zhou Haibin, Chen Jingyuan and Du Yimeng of the doctoral program of urban planning and design of the Faculty of Innovation and Design of CityU, was selected in the “Revitalization Plan for the 2076 Update of the St. Lazarus' Parish Historic District of Macau”. This is the first time that works from Macao’s university have been selected. This work is the research result of “Research on the Method of Updating the Historic District” of Prof. Wu Yao and “The Theory and Method of Architectural Heritage Protection” of Prof. Zhu Rong. It was proposed after conducting in-depth research on the St. Lazarus' Parish Historical District in Macao. This is also the suggestion of CityU for Macao's urban development, the prospect for Macao's urban planning and design development, and a desire to serve Macao society.

Ph.D. candidate Zhou Lei’s paper “Village Landscape Design Based on ‘Low Impact Development’ Rainwater Utilization” was selected. It was the research result at the course “Urban Sustainable Development Design Theory” lectured by Prof. Wu Yao and Assistant Prof. Ren Yujie.

This exhibition focuses on the most concerned issues in the current design field. With the theme of “New Era and New Design”, it explored how environmental art design should listen to the voice of the times and keep pace with the times, and how to face the responsibility and challenge of new era, new task and new development, and to carry out design innovation, technological innovation and field innovation.