Gifts in Symbolic Networks: Information Visualization and Visual Storytelling of Ming-Dynasty Clothing Exchange

This research analyzes clothing gift exchanges in Ming dynasty novels using information visualization. It constructs Sankey diagrams to reveal social hierarchies and symbolic patterns, demonstrating how specific garments expressed power, sincerity, and social relations in historical Chinese material culture.

Contemporary Technologies in Street Art

This thesis explores integrating technologies like Machine Learning and Augmented Reality into street art. It examines how these tools can enhance social commentary, foster public engagement, overcome censorship, and digitally preserve ephemeral artworks, transforming street art into an immersive platform for cultural dialogue.

Reviving Tradition: Influence of Patachitra style in Advertising and Brand
Storytelling

This research explores how Indian Patachitra’s distinctive visual traits and cultural value can be leveraged in branding to connect with consumers. It highlights the art’s storytelling capacity to create emotional resonance with target audiences, affirming its continued impact in modern marketing contexts.

The Fusion of Tradition and Modern Visual Design: AI-Driven Transformation of Ming Dynasty Scholar attire

This research explores how Indian Patachitra’s distinctive visual traits and cultural value can be leveraged in branding to connect with consumers. It highlights the art’s storytelling capacity to create emotional resonance with target audiences, affirming its continued impact in modern marketing contexts.

An exploration into the feasibility of spatiotemporal attributes of VR audio-visual content intervening in healing

This paper explores using VR technology for healing, analyzing its spatiotemporal attributes’ impact on cognition and emotion. It discusses VR’s potential for creating therapeutic spaces and personalized treatment, while noting challenges like cost and the need for more clinical studies.

Sacred Geometry and the Art of Union: Reimagining Duality through Experimental Media

This project reimagines duality through sacred geometry and experimental media. Viewing geometry as a cosmic code, it creates typographic visualizations of Yin and Yang energies, exploring how polarities interact to generate form and meaning, positioning design as a cosmological practice.

Fussil Design, Cellular automation of cohesion between nature and algorithms

This research investigates cellular automata and their influence on design. It develops a new tool called “fussils” through creative programming, generating patterns and artifacts that merge nature and algorithms, contributing to new visual systems and future design processes.

The Integration and Development of Pop Art Elements in Modern Graphic Design

This paper examines the integration of Pop Art into modern graphic design. It analyzes how Pop Art’s visual expressions, utilizing new media and mixed materials, have been applied across posters, advertising, packaging, and interdisciplinary fields, profoundly influencing contemporary visual language.

Articulating ‘Life-state’ Scenarios in the Context of the Hangzhou Asian Games

Using the Hangzhou Asian Games as a case study, this article explores how major sporting events construct urban ‘life-state’ scenarios. It examines the role of visual symbols and cultural participation in shaping a distinctive urban aesthetic that connects local identity with global communities.

Fostering Farmer Agency through Co-Design: A Study on Social Innovation for Rural Revitalization in China

This research investigates a “farmer + designer” co-design pathway for rural revitalization in China. Guided by principles of using local resources, it explores how enhancing farmer agency can drive social innovation across industry, culture, ecology, talent, and organization.

Visual, Interactive Narrative in Education: An Evaluation Instrument for Electronic Learning Resources

This dissertation develops a hybrid evaluation model for primary education digital resources. The framework assesses Pedagogical Value, Design, Interaction/Gamification, and UX, providing a holistic instrument to improve the quality and integration of technology in Georgian education.

Ethical UX Beyond Virality: A Study of Ethical Persuasion in Community-Centric Platforms for Early-Career Craft Artists in Comparative UK and China Contexts

This study addresses platform-induced stress on early-career craft artists. Proposing an ‘ethical-persuasion, loyalty-driven’ UX framework, it aims to create digital spaces prioritizing narrative and community over algorithmic virality, based on a comparative UK-China socio-cultural analysis.

Intelligent Art Education: A Preliminary Analysis of AI-Driven Heritage Transmission for Ethnic Cultural Legacies

This paper explores how AI can promote the preservation and transmission of ethnic cultural heritage. It proposes strategies like establishing cultural databases and AI-based educational platforms, discussing AI’s applications and challenges in art education and curriculum reform.

The Ontological Shift from Chinoiserie to Chinese Narratives A Paradigm of Cultural Authenticity in Global Design

This study distinguishes Western “Chinoiserie” from contemporary “Chinese Narratives.” It argues the latter achieves “shensi” (spiritual resonance) by deeply engaging with traditional Chinese design philosophy, representing a paradigm shift towards authentic cultural expression in global collaborative frameworks.

Culture-semantic-driven framework for digital reconstruction of cultural heritage — a case study on the forbidden city’s corner tower

Critiquing the purely technical “digital twin” approach, this paper proposes a “Culturally-Semantic-Driven Digital Reconstruction” method. Using an “Art-Led Dual-Track Framework,” it integrates parametric modeling with artistic interpretation for a more ethical and narrative-rich engagement with heritage, exemplified by the Forbidden City.

The role of artificial intelligence in landscape architectural biomimicry

This paper explores AI’s role in landscape architectural biomimicry. Using the Nano Banana tool, it demonstrates how AI-assisted visualization can rapidly generate designs like a sunflower-inspired shading structure, enhancing creativity and precision in developing climate-resilient, biomimetic solutions.