Books line the interior of the caravan.[Photo provided to China Daily]

According to Chi, who is also the initiator of the Bauhaus tour, the Deutscher Werkbund, a German association of artists, used to drive the caravan to factories and cities to discuss what society needed to do to prepare for the arrival of the Industrial Age. All the predictions about modern society and industrialization that were proposed by the experts from Bauhaus eventually became reality.

Today, the Bauhaus caravan tour continues to invite well-known scholars and designers, including the dean of the Central Academy of Fine Arts and a design consultant to the Palace Museum, to come into the caravan and discuss the relationship between art, science and human ecology over the next 100 years.

"Through the collision of ideas, discussions will help to build a design school that is open to the public, spreads the value of ideas, and triggers social interaction," Chi says.