Citywide celebration of culture

Gao is keen to emphasize that the core of education at the academy is to help students appreciate different worldviews, understand the diversity of worlds, develop sensitivity, discernment and tolerance, and forge an independent spirit.

The academy's departments each devised their own subthemes for the exhibition. For example, the Design Industry Innovation Center took the subtheme of Forest Island and presented work by 31 students which reflected their engagement with issues such as society, culture, urban development, ecology and technology. The School of Animation and Games presented the work of 177 graduates under the subtheme, Leaves of Grass. Youthful and raw, the creations resonated with the spirit of the young and are vibrant, ambitious and impassioned.

Among the works, there was one, titled Fifty, by He Chaohong, a master's graduate in animation, which had earned recognition and was shortlisted for the Chilean Animation Film Festival in 2022.