Suzhou Art&Design Technology Institute
Suzhou Art&Design Technology Institute is the first higher vocational college of art and design in China, formerly known as "Suzhou Art&Design Technology Institute" founded in August 1958. In 1999, Suzhou Arts and Crafts institute and Suzhou Light Industry Workers University jointly established Suzhou Art&Design Technology Institute, which became the first independent higher vocational college of art and design in China. In 2006, the university obtained excellent results in the evaluation of personnel training level of higher vocational colleges. In 2007, it became one of the first "Demonstration higher Vocational colleges in Jiangsu Province". In 2010, it was selected as the construction college of "National Demonstrative Higher Vocational College Construction Plan". In 2014, the university's national backbone college construction project won the "Excellent" grade in the acceptance of the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Finance. In 2018, the institute was awarded the construction Unit of High-level Higher Vocational Colleges in Jiangsu Province. In 2019, the institute was successfully selected as the Construction unit of High-level Higher Vocational institutes and Specialty Construction Plan with Chinese characteristics. The university has been rated as "Top 50 in Education Effectiveness", "Top 50 in Social Contribution", "Top 50 in International Influence", "Top 50 in Student Satisfaction", etc., ranking first in "Wushulian 2019 China Vocational College Culture and Art Category".
The institute is located at the foot of the ancient Wu resort stone Lake, with a long history and profound culture, creating a good atmosphere for the growth of numerous students. The university covers an area of 561 mu, with a building area of nearly 200,000 square meters. There are more than 400 faculty members and more than 5,000 students. It has seven secondary institutes, including institute of Manual Art, institute of Fine Arts, institute of Visual Communication, institute of Environmental Art, institute of Fashion Design, institute of Industrial Design and institute of Digital Art. It has two major series, modern art design and traditional Arts and crafts, 25 majors and 54 minor specialties, forming the integration of multiple disciplines. The professional pattern of traditional arts and crafts and modern art design.
The institute has the national key construction vocational education teacher training base of the Ministry of Education, the non-hereditary inheriting population training base of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, and the national women's handicraft training demonstration base. In addition, it has the Ministry of Education Chinese Excellent Traditional Culture Inheritance base, jiangsu Province arts and crafts technical personnel continuing education base, Suzhou Taohuawu Woodcut New Year Painting Society (research institute) and so on. The institute is the vice chairman of the Teaching Guidance Committee of Art and Design in Vocational Colleges of the Ministry of Education and the chairman of the Special Committee of Graphic Vision of the Teaching Guidance Committee of Art and Design in Vocational Colleges of the Ministry of Education.
The training center covers an area of 45,800 square meters and has 97 studios, including 4 national training bases, 8 provincial training bases and 1 provincial experimental teaching demonstration center.
Focusing on the goal of cultivating high-quality technical and skilled art and design talents with "virtue and art, mind and skill", the institute constantly deepens the reform of education and teaching, builds a service-oriented professional teaching system, deepens the innovative practice of "studio system" talent training mode, and actively serves the local modern service industry and cultural creative industry. With cooperative employment as the guidance, cooperative education as the model, cooperative development as the goal, improve the institute government, business cooperation to create a new industry-education integration institute new mechanism. Based on tradition and modernity, it is committed to the protection and inheritance of suzhou traditional culture and folk arts and crafts, and pushes the inheritance and development of Suzhou Taohuawu Woodcut New Year pictures, an intangible cultural heritage, to a new stage. Bearing the cultural mission, embodies the responsibility. Through the platform of "Arts and Crafts Inheritance and Innovation Experimental Area", the exploration, inheritance and research and development of Taohuawu woodcut New Year paintings, Suzhou embroidery and The intangible heritage of Leishan Miao people are concentrated. The institute was named one of the first "Jiangsu Province Intangible Cultural Heritage Research Bases". Presided over the construction of the national vocational education professional teaching resource database of "100 Works Record: Non-inheritance and Innovation of Chinese Arts and Crafts". At present, the university has a total of 141 institute-enterprise cooperation units, 24 enterprises in institute.
While actively absorbing western advanced culture, the institute disseminates Chinese culture and exports traditional craft and art design education paradigm through exchanges and cooperation with foreign art and design colleges and cultural and academic institutions. The university has the Sino-French Jiangsu Art and Design Education Research Center jointly established by jiangsu Provincial Department of Education and The Education Bureau of Paris, France, and the Sino-British Suzhou Art and Design Education Innovation Center jointly established by the university of Southampton. It has four workstations in France, the Netherlands, Austria and the United Kingdom, and has established cooperative relations with 78 universities in 28 countries, including France, the United Kingdom, Japan, Canada, the United States and the Netherlands. The implementation of Chinese artisan overseas tour exhibition project and excellent works of teachers and students overseas tour exhibition project, training about 200 long-term and short-term students every year.
The institute has achieved outstanding results in personnel training, and the enrollment and employment situation is booming. It enrolls about 1,800 students from 30 provinces and cities across the country every year. The employment rate of graduates has remained above 98%, the satisfaction rate of enterprises has reached 98%, and a large number of graduates have started their own businesses. The institute has won many honors, such as "Cradle of Highly Skilled Talents award", "Advanced institute of International Education Cooperation and Exchange in Jiangsu Province", "Advanced Collective of Graduate Employment in Jiangsu Province", "Outstanding Contribution Award of Highly Skilled Talents Training in Suzhou City", etc.
The historical starting point and development course of international exchange and cooperation of our college
The international cooperation and exchange of our institute originated from the establishment of "Jiangsu Sino-French Fashion Training Center" in 1998, which started the extensive and active international exchanges and cooperation of our institute. The cooperation and exchange with French art and design schools and enterprises has also become a major feature of the school's international exchanges.
With the development of the instiute business and the increase of international cooperation and exchange programs, the College formally established the International exchange and Cooperation Department in 2005, committed to creating the brand characteristics of the college's international exchange. The establishment of functional departments has promoted the deepening of international exchanges. The experience of cooperation with France has been transplanted to the cooperation with institutions in other countries, greatly enriching the style and connotation of cooperation. At present, our school has signed cooperation and exchange agreements with 25 schools and units in France, Britain, Canada, Australia and other countries.
The institute has reserved nearly 20 art and design professionals with language abilities in English, French, German, Italian, Ukrainian, Japanese and Korean.
Three major international communication platforms
1. Sino-french Art And Design Education Research Center:
Formerly known as sino-French Jiangsu Fashion Training Center. The Sino-French cooperation of our institute has formed a cooperative network with the Ministry of National Education of France as the leader, ecole Du Bailey de Applied Arts of Paris as the backbone, and nearly ten design schools in France. The international cooperation of the School has driven the overall effect of international cooperation through the strong brand characteristics of Sino-French cooperation, and the cooperation function has been greatly extended and expanded. Sino-french Center has also become a platform for French art and design teachers and artists to learn Chinese culture and observe Chinese culture and art window.
2. Sino-British Suzhou Art Design Education Innovation Center:
The center was established in 2009 by our school and Winchester College of The Arts, University of Southampton, UK. It aims to jointly promote art and design education and work, transcend the boundaries of traditional schools and geography, share advanced educational values and teaching resources, and foster innovative thinking in the field of art and design among teachers and students.
3. China Research and Creation Camp of World Handicraft Council:
In 2012, in the world handicraft council as well as the support of the China association of arts and crafts, our hospital set up "the world handicraft council China research camp", to the world handicraft council members of arts and crafts master the opportunity to come to study Chinese traditional arts and crafts culture, enhance the communication between different countries crafters, stimulate creative art, handicrafts, To promote the better development of the world handicraft industry. Since the opening of the research and innovation camp in June last year, many foreign arts and crafts masters have come to our school for exchange and creation. While learning Chinese traditional crafts, they also introduced their own handicrafts to our teachers and students in the form of lectures and projects.
Various forms of international cooperation and exchange
1. Teacher training
In order to build a high-level teaching team with "international vision, dual posts and dual interests, heterogeneous complementation", we fully support young and middle-aged teachers to go abroad to learn foreign advanced teaching methods and concepts, and integrate them into their own teaching practice. Since 2008, the school has successively launched 4 studio projects in France and sent 21 key teachers to Do research projects in France. Fourteen groups of nearly 260 outstanding professional teachers and administrators were sent to France, the United Kingdom, the United States, Hong Kong and other countries and regions to participate in special training programs on teaching and management.
Since 2012, 12 teachers of our insitiute has won the visiting scholar program supported by provincial finance and studied abroad for one year.
2. Student communication
Since 2000, our institute has received more than 400 students from France, Britain, Canada, Australia and other countries for short-term or long-term visits, exchanges and studies. Foreign students showed great interest in Chinese traditional culture and arts and crafts. Painting and calligraphy, embroidery, pottery, jewelry, lacquer and other majors are popular among foreign students. So far, more than 80 students have been to Britain, France, America, Hong Kong and other countries and regions for exchange and study.
3. Collaborative projects
Since 2002, our insitute has carried out more than 20 cooperative projects with universities in France, Britain, Canada and other countries.
Among them, the representative ones are the series of courses cooperated with Dubaili School in France: "Chinese Catering", "Quality of Heroes", "Peach Garden", and the subject of "addition and subtraction" cooperated with French Crocodile Company. Dubailey School sent a three-person team composed of design teachers and craft teachers to teach fashion design courses together with teachers from our school. Based on these topics, the school carried out research on theme teaching method and published a series of books, which promoted the teaching method in China.
Since 2010, the "Ping-pong" and advertising photography project, a joint project with the Photography department of the University of Gloucestershire, has become an annual collaboration between the two universities. The so-called "ping-pong" means British students and Chinese students two pairs, first by the British students through the network issued the first set of pictures, like "serve" at table tennis, Chinese students for a variety of creative technology processing, after receipt of the pictures that "catch", then send back to the UK students, so three rounds of back and forth to create interesting work. After that, British teachers and students will come to our college to exchange with students majoring in photography for a week. During this week, students from both countries will be divided into groups to complete the photography of a commercial product, which will be exhibited in the city art Museum. So far, we have cooperated with British fashion brand "Extreme Dry", American brand "Converse" and American high-end bicycle brand "Lightning".
In 2013, the department of Clothing and The Department of Industry of our college collaborated with Design Percept and Decathlon group on a bicycle helmet redesign project. This is a design teaching subject with three characteristics of Sino-French cooperation, cross-border cooperation and school-enterprise cooperation. It is required to complete the "user personalized plan for urban bicycle helmets" within two weeks. In the teaching design, the product design process of large multinational companies is introduced. In the evaluation scheme, the demand of enterprises and market is taken as an important standard. In the end, the students designed a high level product that conforms to the corporate image and positioning, concept innovation, safety and production standards.
College through teachers with overseas colleges and universities to jointly develop the teaching subject, the common implementation of teaching process, make to participate in the cooperation project of teachers depth resolution foreign advanced teaching methods, curriculum design, teaching implementation, and evaluation standards, and the design of the corporate team building, new product development process, new product market assessment approach to teaching, To construct a talent training model in line with the needs of modern design industry. Collaborative projects also enable students to feel foreign culture closely and accept different design concepts.
4. Large-scale international cultural and art activities
Since 2006, our hospital through the cooperation with culture and art institutions at home and abroad, to undertake, hosted the fourth quarter from lausanne to Beijing international art biennale fibre, uzbekistan oil painting exhibition, "the feast of light" china-australia outdoor exhibition, Vienna New Year concert festival symphony orchestra, the slovak national philharmonic orchestra concert in the New Year and so on many large cultural and artistic activities, It enhances the social influence of the college and enriches the cultural life of teachers, students and citizens.
The successful holding of these large-scale events fully demonstrates our profound artistic foundation and our ability to hold high-level international events.
The foreign affairs work of our college focuses on three platforms, closely meets the needs of the college's construction and development, serves the overall situation, actively participates in the teaching reform of the department and the construction of the faculty, and strives to improve the service level of foreign affairs. The foreign affairs work has achieved steady and healthy development and remarkable achievements.