From April 21 to 26, 2026, the 2026 Milan Design Week, one of the world's top exhibitions, and the 64th Salone del Mobile.Milano were held in Milan, Italy. The 'Breaking Boundaries, New Life 2026' China-Italy Innovative Designers Joint Exhibition, jointly organized by the Milan Design Week Committee, the Organizing Committee of Excellent Works of Design Students and Faculty from Chinese Universities, and others, was grandly held as a parallel event at the Luiss Hub Innovation Exhibition Hall in Milan. The School of Design and Arts of Jiangsu University was invited to participate.
As an important part of the official academic exchange and exhibition activities of Milan Design Week, this event, under the theme of "Breaking Boundaries and New Life," focuses on "Cultural Exchange" and "Diverse Innovation," bringing together design forces from China and abroad to showcase the vibrant vitality and unique value of Chinese design education to the world, presenting the latest achievements of design disciplines in Chinese universities. Works by the faculty and student teams of Professor Zhang Kai, Professor Sun Ningna, and Associate Professor Li Mingzhu from the School of Design and Art at Jiangsu University were invited to participate. The works focus on the teaching and research achievements of industrial design and product design in recent years, particularly in the fields of intelligent equipment design, health design, and lifestyle design, demonstrating the college's interdisciplinary integrated innovation practice capabilities and reflecting its cutting-edge exploration and thinking regarding design education reform and industrial development in the context of artificial intelligence.
This exhibition has been featured on the official website of Milan Design Week, receiving authoritative recognition and wide attention from the international design community. It has built a high-quality platform for communication and mutual learning between Chinese design education and design education in other countries. It provides abundant practical ideas and diverse development reflections for design education innovation, cross-cultural integration, and international school-enterprise cooperation in a global context.
Some of the exhibited works
This exhibition fully showcased the fruitful results of the School of Design Arts in reforming design education. The school takes fields like intelligent equipment, health design, and lifestyle as entry points, deeply integrating design with AI, engineering technology, and humanities and social sciences. It has built an interdisciplinary collaborative teaching model that effectively enhances students' overall skills and cutting-edge practical abilities. In the future, the school will continue to focus on the forefront of global design education, deepen cross-disciplinary integration and industry-education collaboration, and contribute more 'design wisdom' to train versatile design talents for the smart era.
