Present situation of Liu Guanzhong in Tsinghua University

Liu Guanzhong, male, born in September, 1943, honorary professor of Tsinghua University Academy of Fine Arts, doctoral supervisor, government-funded scholar, vice chairman of China Industrial Design Association and director of academic and exchange committee, and honorary professor of Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Adjunct Professor and Doctoral Supervisor of Art College of Central South University, Doctoral Supervisor of Guangdong University of Technology, Visiting Professor of Industrial Design Department of Xiamen Institute of Arts and Crafts of Fuzhou University, Honorary Dean of Art and Design College of Jinan University, and Dean of Design and Innovation Research Institute of Jinan University.

1984, the first "Industrial Design Department" was established in China. Over the years, he has been a conscientious teacher, laid the theoretical foundation and teaching system of industrial design in China, and became the most famous academic leader and theorist of industrial design in China.

Its teaching, academic and design practice activities are spread all over the country, and a large number of teaching and design elites and backbones have been trained. His theories and methods, such as "Lifestyle Theory", "* * * Aesthetics" and "Pragmatism", have had a guiding influence in the domestic and even international design circles, forming China's own design theory system.

Words of a famous teacher

1, focusing on demand target system rather than function.

2. Pay attention to things instead of things.

3. Paying attention to external factors is not internal factors.

4. Pay attention to structural relationships rather than elements.

5. Pay attention to the whole rather than the part.