2023-01-09 2023 International Symposium on Color Education

The International Symposium on Color Education will be held at 23:00 Beijing Time on January 9, 2023 (10:00 Eastern time on January 9, 15:00 UK time) in the form of the zoom conference. The meeting was co-chaired by Song Wenwen, Executive Deputy Director of the Colour & Image,  Arts and Science Research Center, Tsinghua University, and Professor Song Limin, Academy of Fine Arts, Tsinghua University. The international experts involved are Maggie Maggio, Robert Hirschler, Stephen Westland, Robin Kingburgh, Luanne Stovall, Harald Ankil, Ingrid Calvo-Ivanovich, Qiu Lixin and Zhu Shiyang from Institute of Color, Tsinghua University, and Lu Tianqi, Lin Jiawei and Yang Ziyuan from Academy of Fine Arts attended the meeting. This conference is a planned international conference of Tsinghua University's "Due Research on Color Art and Science Based on Design Discipline" (project number: 2021TSG08202) in 2021.

At the beginning of the meeting, Qiu Lixin introduced the recent work and research achievements of TASCII. Zhu Shiyang and Lin Jiawei respectively introduced the current status of color education in science and engineering majors and art design majors in China. Yang Ziyuan introduced color education in the United States from her own experience, and Lu Tianqi also introduced the learning achievements and experiences from the perspective of professional indoor color. Afterwards, color experts from the Color Literacy project team will explore the color education system in China and internationally, and propose the development direction of the color education system.

The Colour Literacy Project was launched by AIC Colour Society and ISCC Colour Alliance USA. It was jointly launched by a number of renowned colour artists and colour scientists in the global colour industry to explore new approaches to colour education as a multidisciplinary system linking science, art and design, industry, technology and culture. Build a platform for global color education in the 21st century.

The Colour&Image Institute of Tsinghua University's Art and Science Research Center, founded in 2010, is the first research institute in China to combine the art, design and scientific application of color. Based on the theory of color science, the Institute of Color Research at Tsinghua University serves teaching and continuing education. With a strong team of experts and international resources, the Institute conducts a variety of forward-looking color and image technology research, providing related industries with services ranging from color design and management to color communication and image science application.

Ms. Qiu Lixin introduced the Color Research Institute of Tsinghua University from the aspects of education and training, research and application, and shared the research and application cases of cooperation with many enterprises.

The color education in the colleges of science and technology of China is characterized by industrial application. Ms. Zhu introduced three major industry directions of color education in colleges and universities of science and technology. One is related to optical or color science, the other is related to dyeing and finishing technology of textile industry, and the direction of printing and packaging industry. The teaching content of this field takes colorimetry as the core, including colorimetry, color appearance model, color measurement, color management, printing color science, dyeing and finishing technology, etc.

Chinese art design colleges and universities are characterized by aesthetic cultivation. Dr. Lin Jiawei introduced the characteristics of color education in Chinese art and design colleges and universities, such as focusing on cultivating students' subjective aesthetics, and emphatically introduced the color education system of the Academy of Fine Arts of Tsinghua University, and the teaching and experimental teaching of the Institute of Color of Tsinghua University.

Dr. Yang Ziyuan introduced and shared the curriculum system of design in American comprehensive universities through her own study experience in the United States.

Dr. Lu Tianqi shared his experience from two aspects of indoor color research and color teaching. In the aspect of research, he shared a group of professional American female interior decorators who came to China to carry out interior decoration design in the Republic of China in the decoration thoughts reflected in the bright sense of scientific color; In the aspect of color teaching, he shared his previous experience as a teaching assistant of interior color design.

| Stephen Westland

The Chair in Colour Science and Technology at the University of Leeds.

Project team member of the Colour Literacy Project. London, UK.

Stephen Westland welcomed the team from Tsinghua University to join the Colour Literacy Project. "Applied Research in Color Art and Science Based on Design Disciplines" will join the global "Color literacy" project, contributing to the popularization of color education, the integration of color science and color art.

| Maggie Maggio

Maggie, Chair of the Colour Literacy Project, Portland, Oregon U.S.

Maggie Maggio said she was very excited to collaborate with the Color Institute, which has 13 years of interdisciplinary color experience, and thanked Tsinghua University for hosting this conference. She points out that combining color science and art is a challenge that the Color literacy team is working on. At the same time, it is pointed out that if the core knowledge of color which can be oriented to a wider field is taught to students from the early grades, the understanding of color science and art will be deepened.

| Luanne Stovall

Luanne Stovall, head of the University Education Department's Colour Literacy programme and co-organiser of the conference, after her interview with Miss Song Wenwen and Maggie in 2022, Luanne has been looking forward to the Tsinghua team joining the Colour Literacy programme and sharing teaching materials, as well as future international colour conferences.

| Robert Hirschler

Co-Chair of Colour Literacy Project, Budapest, Hungary.

Robert Hirschler believes that in color education, it takes some effort to provide a color language that can be understood by people with art, design, and engineering backgrounds. Tsinghua University's "Applied Research in Color Art and Science Based on Design Disciplines" project is also exploring the integration of color and science to lay the foundation for a common color language.

| Harald Ankil

Vice-president of the Finnish Colour Association.

Project team member of the Colour Literacy Project. Helsinki, Finland.

Based on his professional background, Harald Ankil pointed out that interior designers are a group of people who should receive comprehensive color knowledge training, and are very interested in the knowledge system of traditional Chinese colors. At the same time, he talked about advocating in his newly published book that color education should be people-oriented and deeply explore the relationship between color and human perception.

| Robin Kingburgh

President of the Colour Research Society of Canada.

Project team member of the Colour Literacy Project. Toronto, Canada.

Robin Kingburgh, as the main leader of the color tool kit and the textbook manager for implementing the color literacy project, is very pleased that the Tsinghua University research group can provide materials for specific color education.

| Ingrid Calvo Ivanovich 

Color Researcher and Consultant.

Project team member of the Colour Literacy Project. Santiago, Chile.

Ingrid Calvo Ivanovich pointed out that each profession and industry has different needs for color, so how to carry out the same color science education in art, textile, photography, painting and other majors at the same time is a difficult problem. The Tsinghua research team will also carry out a series of relevant investigations to solve this problem in the next research.

| Song Limin

Professor of the Academy of fine arts of Tsinghua University