Visiting the campus

LNU Press Center News: “It’s like being back to my parents’ home to re-visit LNU. The school changed a lot in these years. Very impressive!” On May 24, Doctor Zhu Pang-hsiung, the famous Taiwanese pottery wall artist visited LNU. He complimented the changes of the campus environment and gave a special report on “Integration of Art, Design and Engineering” to LNU’s faculties and students.

In the morning, Dr. Zhu visited the campus, accompanied by LNU’s representatives including Secretary of Party Committee Luo Hai’ou and Vice President Li Jiangling. Zhu  thought the campus was quite different from the one he visited three years ago. He said, although he had visited many universities around the globe and in Taiwan, none of these universities has campus so elaborately planned and decorated as LNU’s, which has traditional Chinese culture and philosophy integrated into every corner. He thought it is very impressive and admirable, and a blessing for LNU’s faculties and students. At the symposium, Zhu reviewed the production of Search for the Water Source, a large-scale pottery wall work he designed for LNU and considered it a crystal of luck and effort, produced in a very hard way. He also provided comments and suggestions for LNU’s cultural development in the future.

“Like master-hands in kung fu novels who travel a lot and draw on the essence of all martial arts, we designers need to stick to our goal, work hard and learn widely.” Said Dr. Zhu when he gave a lecture of “Integration of Art, Design and Engineering” to LNU’s faculties and students at the academic hall of the library in the afternoon. Based on his extensive experience in art, he talked about his views on topics including engineering design, special art creation and the public art of pottery wall. He encouraged students to conduct independent study in college and master principles and creation skills of different artistic works before design, so as to be self-challenging with unlimited ideas.

When talking about the importance of historic culture on artistic creation, Zhu pointed out the public art of pottery wall examines the inner value of the work’s culture. He urged teachers and students value the learning of traditional historic culture and the knowledge of different areas and disciplines, to allow ourselves to be inspired by the long history. He actively engaged in interactions with students and answered in detail such questions as “how to design a fine work” and “how to stick to creation for dozens of years” based on his own experience, gaining steady warm applause from teachers and students present.

Photo taken in front of the pottery wall

At the symposium

Dr. Zhu Pang-hsiung making academic report

Group photo of the academic lecture

(Photo by Qu Yun, Liu Haiying and Ye Yuting)