Dean of FA Prof. Zhang Zhi Qing (left) presents souvenirs to the two guest professors at the Workshop
The Faculty of Humanities and Arts (FA) of Macau University of Science and Technology successfully held “Macau DESIGN Workshop: Site Project” from March 11 to 21, 2019. Organized and devised by Vice Dean Ma Quan of the FA, the event managed to invite two world’s top designers from Yale University, Prof. Sheila Levrant de Bretteville and Prof. Peter de Bretteville, to lead 40 year-1 master students majoring in design practice and complete a 9-day workshop. The results of the Workshop were exhibited in Room 207 of Block O at M.U.S.T. in the morning of March 21, 2019.
Prof. Sheila Levrant de Bretteville is Director of the Visual Communication Design Department of Yale University. She is the first female tenure professor at Yale University, a public artist and founder of the Graphic Design major of many renowned design schools in the U.S.A. Prof. Peter de Bretteville is a professor at the Architecture Department of Yale University. He is an architecture design guru and owner of a well-known architecture design firm.
“Site Project” Workshop
As a classic project for the graduate program of Yale University, the “Site Project” Workshop integrates philosophy, visual senses, spatial awareness and ideologies. It empowers students to take initiatives from beginning to end, to dig down to their respective thinking and potentials, and unites the concepts of sense, care, experiment, self, response, recycling and imagination as a core, pushing each student to reflect on their own mental bounds, to seek independent critical thinking and exceed the inertia they’ve grown accustomed to, seek “dialogues” with their selected “locations”, and eventually approach selection, culture, relationship, individuals, and diversity from different dimensions. By creating projects of their own on their own, the students pursued practices throughout the Workshop, which led to diverse works presented in multiple channels through various vehicles. The works involve deconstruction of information, abstract extraction, spatial attraction, space displacement, splicing and composing of media materials; having explored most forms of visual and spatial design, the works represent the 40 unique points of views of the world by the 40 students.
Group photo of teachers and students at the “Site Project” Workshop
Lecturer Jiao Hairuo and Lecturer Feng Jinglei from FA worked as assistant teachers at the Workshop. The former lecturer graduated from the Parsons School of Design, U.S.A., and she teaches the visual communication design major at FA; the latter graduated from the Mississippi State University, and she teaches the landscape design major at FA. The two lecturers assisted the two principal professors in their daily lectures, tutorship and discussions throughout the Workshop.
