Doctor

Assistant to President

Associate Professor (long term and teaching research type) of Shanghai International College of Design and Innovation

Research orientation:

Environmental design, experience design, circular economy and sustainable innovation

Main courses:

Undergraduate course: Professional Design for Environmental Design 4

Graduate course: Design Practice Research Topic 2

Education Background:

Studied as a visiting scholar at Parsons School of Design, USA in 2014

Earned the degree of Doctor of Engineering in Architectural History and Theory from Tongji University College of Architecture and Urban Planning

Studied as a visiting scholar at University of Wuppertal, Germany from 2004 to 2005

Earned the degree of Master of Arts in Artistic Design from the Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University in 2000

Earned the degree of Bachelor of Engineering in Industrial Design from Tongji University College of Architecture and Urban Planning in 1997

Work Experience:

2009-present: working as a teacher at Tongji University College of Design and Innovation

2000-2009: worked as a teacher in the Department of Art Design of Tongji University College of Architecture and Urban Planning

Representative research results and works:

2012: leader of Nanjing China Green Expo Garden environmental improvement planning sub-project of the strategic conceptual planning for the overall improvement of Hexi New City, Nanjing

2011: leader of the project titled display and environment graphic design of Shijiazhuang Planning Museum

2011: leader of the project titled Shanghai Jiefang Daily Building signage system design

2010: leader of the project titled Shanghai International Fashion Center signage system design

2010: leader of the project titled environmental graphic design of Expo 2010 Shanghai United Nations Pavilion

2009: leader of the project titled Guidelines for the Planning of Sculptures in Key Area in Changning District, Shanghai

Representative works, textbooks, papers, patents and exhibitions in the latest five years:

Papers:

[1] Yang, H. (2016). Design for Transition to a Circular Economy. In P.-L.P. Rau (Ed.): Cross-Cultural Design(pp.800-807). Switzerland: Springer.

[2] Yang Hao. The New Mission of Exhibition Design in the Context of Chinese Museums’ Great Leap Forward [J]. Grand Design, 2013:18-21

[3] Yang Hao. on the Design of the Environmental Information System of Siping Road Campus [J]. Grand Design, 2011:135

[4] Yang Hao. Design Experience and Exchange - Teaching and Learning of the Chenshan Botanical Garden Project of the Environmental Design Major of Tongji University College of Design and Innovation [J]. Interior Designers, July 2012 (36) : 112

[5] Yang Hao. Questioning Architecture, Rem Koolhaas’s Knife [J]. New Design Series, 2012.5 (7) : 116-120

[6]Yang, H. Orientation: A System Resonant with the Environment [Z]. Getting from Here to There, 2012:50

[7] Yang Hao. The Surreal Journey of Minimalism [J]. Grand Design, 2006 (1) : 84-90

[8] Yang Hao. An Informal Essay on the Visit to the Department of Industrial Design of University of Wuppertal, Germany [J]. Grand Design, 2005 (2) : 22-27

Honors and Awards：

2016: named an excellent instructor in the first “Huichuang Youth” Shanghai College Students’ Cultural Creative Works Competition

2016: the course “Environmental Professional Design 3 (as the second person in charge) was named a municipal-level excellent course of colleges and universities in Shanghai

2012: named the instructor of 2012 in the second International Landscape Planning and Design Conference & Aijing Award

2010: instructed students to participate in the CIC Teaching Ship Interior Design Competition and won the only award

2010: the project titled Practice of the Mode of Joint Training of Automotive Modeling Professionals across the Major of Vehicle Engineering and Industrial Design won the first prize of 2010 Tongji University Teaching Achievement Award (ranked 5th)

2008: named an excellent instructor in the 2008 International Symposium on Industrial Design Education and Exhibition of Outstanding Design by Undergraduate Students of the Major of Industrial Design of 2008

2006: the course Design Graphics was named a municipal-level excellent course of colleges and universities in Shanghai in 2005

International exchanges and activities:

2015: Schmidt-MacArthur Fellowship program supervisor

2015: Co-chaired the “Active Design-New Environment Design” Forum

2010-2012: IP-WORKSHOP [SSSTC] Sino-Swiss Cross-cultural Distance Teaching Research Project

2011 – 2012: presided over two Cross-cultural Distance Interaction Joint Design Work Camps, i.e. VISIT2011 and VISIT2012

2010: presided over the D&I and CAUP joint campus environment information design work camp of Bern University of the Arts

Contact information:

Email: barbaray@163.com