Shanghai Jiao Tong University

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Institution: Shanghai Jiao Tong University 上海交通大学，设计学院 

Location: Shanghai, China 

Focus Area: Innovative design, high-end manufacturing, community building, mobility, tourism 

Expertise: Design: intelligent design, information & interaction design, user experience design, open design, participatory design, co-design; Architecture: architectural design research and future directions; architectural history, theory, and technology; urban and rural planning, and heritage protection; Landscape Architecture: integrating natural urban renewal and ecological restoration; landscape architecture history, theory, and design, landscape plants and applications

Key Projects:

Collaboration

Shanghai Jiao Tong University is working on the Circular Community building based on neoBay* to support design education, research, and real-life implementations by taking the Circular Community as a Living Lab. Providing an open environment for collaboration in the areas of education, and in research based on long experience in multi-disciplinary and multicultural work, involving Chinese, European, and other international partners:

1. a platform for turning ideas into reality by testing and validating them in a real­ world context of China, and in particular in Shanghai, which is one of the most dynamic and innovation driven urban environments representing a rapidly growing market - but also one of the future design and innovation hot spots globally;

2. alternative approaches and solutions to complex problems for circular economycircular economyA systems solution framework that tackles global challenges like climate change, biodiversity loss, waste, and pollution. It is based on three principles, driven by design: eliminate waste and pollution, circulate products and materials (at their highest value), and regenerate nature. in an environment that has both mega cities and very resource limited rural areas easily reachable;

3. knowledge of design-driven innovation approach for social innovation, driven by interest of the NGOs, the public sector (e.g. hospitals), policy makers, and municipalities in testing and implementing social innovation in practice

4. the knowledge of exploring Living Lab methodology for education and learning.

(* neoBay is a Global Entrepreneurship and Innovation Community, co­ founded in 2015 by Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), Government of Shanghai Minhang District, and Shanghai Land Group (SL) to build an incubation platform of entrepreneurship and innovation with premium resources. With its focus on incubating technology-based start-ups, neoBay aims at attracting and converging worldwide resources and networks of entrepreneurship and innovation, advancing Shanghai towards the leading hub of hi-tech innovation with global influence.)

Teaching

• Design project: taking the EU-China Circular Design Challenge as the theme.

• Innovative thinking and Design: taking the EU-China Circular Design Challenge as the sub-course theme.

• Design Thinking, Knowing and Doing: with the theme Upcycling Campus as well as Circular Community Building.

Research

Involvement in The Alibaba Living Water Project aims to build a "practitioner + researcher" online docking platform, explore the value of Alibaba's ecological cases and data, help researchers continue to conduct high-quality research, and promote the development of China's digital economy research. Find out more.

Connect with:

HAN Ting, Professor, vice Dean of School of Design hanting@sjtu.edu.en

SONG Dongjin, Assistant Professor song_dongjin@sjtu.edu.cn

Find out more:

Shanghai Jiao Tong University website (link)

Shanghai Jiao Tong University - School of Design

上海交通大学，设计学院

"We are looking to cooperate in areas such as sustainable urban development, intelligent buildings and smart living where SJTU is internationally networked and known as a leading institute in China. With the digital services being embedded in all aspects of everyday life we are looking to develop new design and innovation approaches to "smart life", including urban services as well as wellbeing and senior services, working together with prominent experts, active teachers and student teams and companies in China and internationally."