August 2, Thursday morning, Ms. Shen Jiapei, Supervisor, International Affairs BIT, conducted the closing ceremony for our IIT/IPRO Study Abroad Program at BIT. She... Read More
August 1, Wednesday afternoon, we were honored with a class in Chinese Calligraphy (zhōng guó shū fǎ). Master Zhang was kind enough to not... Read More
July 28, Saturday afternoon, Renjie and Dan spoke at a design association for students and professional designers in Beijing. There were over 150 designers... Read More
July 31, Tuesday morning, the students made their very first prototype presentations. Each product concept is a well conceived and marketable idea. The prototypes... Read More
July 29, Sunday morning, teaching assistant Renjie, IPRO instructor Dan and two friends, Erik and Cecilia, decided to go to Beihai park in Beijing.... Read More
July 25, Wednesday morning, IPRO instructor Dan Chichester and Teaching Assistant Renjie Li deliver a design education lecture to industrial design students at Tsinghua... Read More
July 25, Wednesday afternoon, the class visited the Summer Palace today as part of our learning about Chinese culture program. It was a rare... Read More
Tuesday, July 24, our class began to prototype it’s product ideas. Prototyping is new for nearly everyone in the class. It’s a bit of... Read More
Ashma, Divya and I took the bullet train to Shanghai for a weekend adventure. We got in late Friday night and checked into our... Read More
Saturday, July 21, our adventuresome IPRO instructors head out to find some contemporary art. Renjie has heard of a place called 798 Art Zone.... Read More
