To welcome the120th anniversary ofTaiyuanUniversity ofTechnology, College of Art held a series of lectures accordingly named theLight of Art Within 120 Years.On the afternoon of May 7th, Professor Fang Xiaofeng,vice President ofAcademy ofFineArtsin TsinghuaUniversityandeditorof the magazineDecorationas the first sharer gave a special lecture on the title ofSpace, Narration and Cultureonline through Tencent Meeting and lived on WeChat Channels and Bilibili.
These series of lectures focused on current trends and hot topics at home and abroad and aimed tocreate a strong academic atmosphereduring thecelebrationthrough discussing. Influential scholars in the fields of art, design and historicalrelicwere invited to interpret and communicate in these lectures for a better promotion ofteaching and researchinartisticdiscipline in ouruniversity.
In the lecture, Professor Fang, based on the narrative strategies of the modern commercial space design, pointed out that space narrative as a means to improve the sense of experience was of great value for space design in the era of virtual economy today. By comparing the relation between forms and functions of modernism and post-modernism, he revealed the nature of narrative was to express meanings which was realized by signs in a context. He helped listeners review the development progress of the space narrative theory and its nature through analyzing image and literal narrative in ancient architectural design and space narrative in the architecture and landscape design in the modern and contemporary age with examples such as the Great Pyramids, Victory Column, Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial. The nature of space narrative was to respond to people’s perception and psychology so to arouse their emotions by the design of space forms, which was unlike literal narrative telling a story. He emphasized lots of cases showed that narrative relying on universal life experience and instinctive reaction were more likely to achieve the goal instead of narrative of personal experience. Professor Fang reveals the cultural difference between China and the West on the space narrative after comparing the western landscape and architectural design and Chinese traditional garden space design, and he then stated that effective narrative strategies were built based on the deep understanding of certain culture. The expression of culture was not as simple as labeling. However, the competitiveness of culture came from its quality.
During the two-hour lecture, Professor Fang answered the concerned problem in this field based onclassic cases in China and abroad from ancient time to modern period. Teachers and students online and offline were all impressed by his lecture and looking for more high-quality lectures soon.
