Abstract.Urban waterfront parks are situated at the intersection of water bodies, land, and urban built environments, offering multifaceted value in improving the urban ecological environment, organizing public activities, and shaping the local landscape. Waterfront spaces formed under different natural conditions and urban development contexts exhibit distinct differences in ecological design concepts and their modes of expression. Taking ecological principles as the starting point, this paper selects the Winter Olympics Park along the Yongding River in Beijing and Victory Park along the Svisloch … Read more →

Abstract.The study explores design difficulties and research directions of inclusive modularity in multi-species wearable interaction scenarios. The research contends that multi-species interaction requires designers to simultaneously consider physiological variation, interspecies ethics, located activity, maintenance, and communicative context, rather than treating wearables as standardised items for a single category of user. Using inclusive design, animal-computer interaction, disability-oriented wearable research, and more-than-human design conversations as a springboard, the essay considers why … Read more →

Abstract.How to guide landscape heritage reuse and urban ecological restoration with the concept of resilience: A study. Instead of providing new empirical data, it collects existing research on socioecological resilience, historic urban landscapes, green infrastructure and circular regeneration to propose a conceptual system for heritage-led ecological restoration. First, resilience thinking and its application to cities as complex social-ecological-technical systems are introduced; then, how international instruments such as the UNESCO Recommendation on the Historic Urban Landscape and culture-based … Read more →

Abstract.This study argues that the aims of social aesthetic education require a shift in exhibition design from knowledge transmission to aesthetic cultivation. This study addresses two questions: why does the aim of social aesthetic education require a fundamental change in exhibition design? What are the actual paths for this reorientation? Dewey proposed the concept of "experience" in his analysis, and based on this idea, this paper advocates moving away from a "viewing-centered" model of exhibition design to an "experience-centered" one. This is not a change in style but in concept; it seeks to … Read more →

Abstract.The advent of artificial intelligence (AI) technology within music has changed the improvisational performing style and aesthetic underpinning of jazz. Based on the philosophy of technology and the aesthetics of music, this article identifies three levels on which AI intervention has restructured the basic configuration of jazz improvisation: the improvisation subject has expanded from the performer to a human-machine consortium, the creative activity has shifted from the individual's internal expression to distributed generation in the interaction, and the focus of aesthetic attention has … Read more →

Abstract.Curatorial work in exhibitions is no longer a neutral organisation of exhibitions but a type of cultural production driven by the logic of capital. This paper introduces the idea of "curatorial capital" and studies how symbolic capital, social capital and economic capital are combined in the public education of art museums. The three selected cases for comparison are the "Spatial Productivity" project of Suzhou Contemporary Art Museum (over 40 free public activities as supporting programming). A comparative analysis of the 2025 international solo exhibitions and concurrent public education … Read more →

Abstract.In 2025, the 7th Hainan Island International Film Festival established the AI Film Season for the first time and received 2,852 works from 56 countries and regions around the world; the 3rd Runway AI Film Festival also selected 10 films from about 6,000 submitted short films. Together, these two events show that AI-generated images have been included in the film festival's screening list and are now a trend that demands attention from creators. This paper examines AI experimental films and studies changes in their creative paradigm, subject form, and reception mode. The study shows that … Read more →

Abstract.The continuous evolution of digital intelligent technologies has profoundly transformed the creative logic and production models of film and television imagery, driving the entire visual culture industry toward digital transformation. As a core vehicle for South Korea's cultural export, K-pop music videos leverage a mature industrial production system and a youth-oriented visual style to amass vast audiences in overseas markets such as Europe, America, and Southeast Asia, thus possessing inherent advantages in cross-cultural communication. Drawing on multimodal discourse analysis and … Read more →

Abstract.This paper takes Chinese contemporary figurative painting after the 1990s as its research object and discusses the logic of “micro-narrative” and its relationship with individual life experience. It first defines micro-narrative, experience, and individual experience, and explains the philosophical foundation of micro-narrative through subject philosophy and Walter Benjamin’s theory of fragmentation. Second, it reviews the historical context from “Scar Art,” “Rural Realism,” and the “1985 New Wave Art” to “New Generation Art” and “post-70s painting,” arguing that the narrative mode of Chinese … Read more →