The picture shows the intangible cultural heritage digital work "I Bring the Wind" designed by the 2021 graduate students of Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts, Shanghai University.
In the "Cross-Cultural Design" class of Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts of Shanghai University, teachers and students gave many unexpected ideas - they used modern technology to empower traditional culture, break the limitations of time and space, and let "old crafts" link the past and the future under the creation of "new craftsmen". Many interesting works have emerged, and "I Bring the Wind" is one of them.
"We will interpret and innovate the design of China's intangible cultural heritage, bamboo weaving, in the form of parametrics", Yang Liu, one of the main creative members of the work and a 2021 graduate student of the Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts of Shanghai University, told reporters that bamboo weaving is resilient, and its spatial curvature and the ethereal ribbon of Dunhuang Flying Ribbon can be well combined, which also provides a foundation for the cross-border integration of intangible cultural heritage.
Teaching and learning make intangible cultural heritage glow under the condition of joint efforts
It can be said that the addition of digital technology has opened a kaleidoscopic channel for artistic creation and intangible cultural heritage, and more forms of cross-border integration have also made it possible to diversify intangible cultural heritage. Over the years, the Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts of Shanghai University and the Shanghai Collaborative Innovation Center for Public Art have carried out cross-border cooperation on intangible cultural heritage by organizing and setting up various intangible cultural heritage workshops, and have joined hands with intangible cultural heritage inheritors, university teachers and students, fashion designers and other groups to explore new ways for the protection and inheritance of intangible cultural heritage.
In the intangible cultural heritage workshop, intangible cultural heritage inheritors are conducting exchanges and discussions.
Zhao Feiyue, a 2021 graduate student of Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts of Shanghai University who participated in the 2021 Banma County Traditional Crafts Workshop, told reporters that the seminar she participated in involved the cross-border integration of various fields such as black pottery production, Tibetan silver processing and thangka painting, and local intangible cultural heritage inheritors will also bring their own skills to Shanghai to communicate with designers and university teachers and students. "We have combined the knowledge we have learned from books with the practical application of inheritors, which has inspired us a lot of design ideas, so I think that intangible cultural heritage needs to be joined by young people. Zhao Feiyue said.
It is understood that the Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts of Shanghai University is continuing to incubate intangible cultural heritage in various art and design classes, so that students can better understand and apply the essence of excellent traditional Chinese culture. "The slogan and concept we put forward is to let the inheritors of intangible cultural heritage hold the designers in one hand, the artists in the other, and the teachers and students in the other, so that the work of intangible cultural heritage inheritance can shine with more charm under the condition of everyone's joint efforts. Jin Jiangbo, executive dean and professor of Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts of Shanghai University, and director of Shanghai Public Art Collaborative Innovation Center, said that cross-border integration is, in a sense, to make the work of intangible cultural heritage inheritance a cause for everyone.
Cross-border integration Let intangible cultural heritage shine in the subtleties of life
At the closing ceremony of the Hangzhou Asian Para Games last year, a hearing-impaired girl holding a West Lake silk umbrella danced, attracting the attention of many audiences. On the steps under the cauldron tower, Luo Shan, the representative inheritor of the umbrella making skills of the national intangible cultural heritage (West Lake silk umbrella), is concentrating on drawing silk umbrellas.
The picture shows the West Lake silk umbrella work made by Luo Shan, the representative inheritor of the umbrella making skills (West Lake silk umbrella), a representative project of national intangible cultural heritage, using AI painting.
In 2022, Luo Shan studied at Shanghai University in the Yangtze River Delta Traditional Craft Digital Construction Workshop. Here, she was introduced to AI painting and creatively applied it to the creation of umbrella patterns. "We used AI painting to draw a lot of the umbrella surface of the West Lake silk umbrella, and after spray-painting the umbrella surface, we made it into the West Lake silk umbrella. Combined with hot spots, the process of making an umbrella is also much easier than using traditional painting or embroidery. ”
In fact, the cross-border integration of intangible cultural heritage provides many references for the creative transformation and innovative development of intangible cultural heritage inheritance and protection. The need for culture and art to bring forth the new needs is combined with new forces and new methods, and the integration into modern life provides an effective idea for the cross-border integration of intangible cultural heritage.
The "Jiangnan Living Room" Yangtze River Delta Traditional Craft Life Aesthetics Design Exhibition, co-hosted by Shanghai University, demonstrated the cross-border practice of integrating intangible cultural heritage into modern life in "Four Seasons and Eight Scenes".
Zhang Lili, deputy dean and professor of the Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts of Shanghai University, and the nominee of the 2018 China Intangible Cultural Heritage of the Year, explained that intangible cultural heritage can be integrated into every corner of modern life, such as intangible cultural heritage dyeing, weaving and embroidery and soft decoration, intangible cultural heritage metal forging and small home furnishings and accessories, ceramics, glass and other production skills related to restaurants and dining tables. "With the advancement of intangible cultural heritage protection in the past decade, the concept of 'integrating intangible cultural heritage into modern life' has been familiar and recognized by more and more people, and we have seen that many young people are tirelessly exploring all aspects. ”
International Ideas Let intangible cultural heritage "go global" and promote oriental culture
On the other hand, the protection and inheritance of intangible cultural heritage is to bring the excellent traditional Chinese culture to the world stage, tell Chinese stories and spread Chinese voices, and the International Creative Work Camp has opened the door for many students from foreign universities to understand the treasures of oriental culture.
In the 2016 International Bamboo Creative Design Workshop, the Shanghai Public Art Collaborative Innovation Center (PACC) and the University of Auckland collaborated with teachers and students to discuss the inheritance and innovation of Chinese bamboo culture.
Jin Jiangbo said frankly that at present, many overseas young people have little understanding of traditional Chinese culture, and they are also blind to how to form a cultural pattern, cultural resources, and cultural characteristics that have lasted for 5,000 years of Chinese civilization. "Cross-cultural, cross-field, cross-ecological creative workshops can help them find design inspiration, and even they think they have found a very vivid way to express themselves. At the same time, through the cooperation with foreign designers, artists and students, domestic inheritors and graduate students can also learn about the international interpretation of fashion, so as to feel the infinite vitality of China's multi-ethnic and diverse cultural resources.
"The so-called 'intangible cultural heritage, seeing people, seeing things, seeing life', this speaks to the core of our intangible cultural heritage inheritance in the new era. Jin Jiangbo said that the participation of young people will allow more carriers to become witnesses of the inheritance and transformation of intangible cultural heritage, and at the same time, intangible cultural heritage can represent a symbol of high quality of life - this is our intangible cultural heritage planning in the new era.
Producer: Guangming Network Economic Editorial Department
Curator: Zhao Gang
Co-ordinator: Tao Yuan
Reporter: Zhang Shiqi