The 146th AALD Salon was Successfully Held at Jiangnan University

Recently, the "Wuxi Lighting - Jiangnan University Industry-Academia-Research Exchange Promotion Association and the 146th Asian Association of Lighting Designers (AALD) Salon" was successfully held in Wuxi. AALD, together with Wuxi Lighting and Dongliang International Lighting Design Center, visited Jiangnan University to carry out a unique industry-academia-research exchange event. The purpose of this event was to promote deep integration of industry, academia, and research in the field of digital lighting and shadows, as well as to facilitate technological innovation and industrial upgrading.

Overview of the Event

At the exchange meeting venue

On the morning of November 2nd, the "Wuxi Lighting - Jiangnan University Industry-Academia-Research Exchange Promotion Association and the 146th Asian Association of Lighting Designers (AALD) Salon (Wuxi Station)" was successfully held at Jiangnan University. Xu Dongliang, Executive Director of AALD and Principal Designer of Dongliang International Lighting Design Center, Ma Bin, Secretary-General of AALD, Huang Lei, Wuxi Coordinator of AALD and Deputy General Manager of Wuxi Lighting, Zhu Yuerong, Assistant Secretary-General of AALD, as well as experts and professors from the School of Digital Technology and Creative Design at Jiangnan University attended the meeting.

Xu Dongliang

Huang Lei

Zhu Yuerong

At the meeting, all parties conducted in-depth discussions on cutting-edge technologies, market trends, and industry-academia-research cooperation models in the field of digital lighting and shadows. They hoped to achieve complementary advantages through cooperation and empower the development of new productive forces with collaborative innovation among industry, academia, and research, thereby opening up new paths for deep cooperation between enterprises and universities under the new situation.

Signing ceremony

In the presence of witnesses, Wuxi Lighting and the School of Digital Technology and Creative Design at Jiangnan University signed a cooperation agreement for an industry-academia-research joint platform and jointly unveiled the "Digital Lighting and Shadow Research Center". The establishment of this center aims to promote innovation and development in the field of digital lighting and shadow technology between the two parties, jointly cultivate high-level talents, and facilitate industrial upgrading.

Signing Ceremony

Dean Hu Zhenyu of the School of Digital Technology and Creative Design at Jiangnan University and Huang Lei jointly witnessed and unveiled the plaque.

Book signing ceremony

The event also featured a book signing ceremony for "Lighting Chronicles," a new masterpiece by Mr. Xu Dongliang. This book encapsulates his profound experience in lighting design accumulated over the years and serves as an "encyclopedia of lighting" filled with inspiration and creativity, injecting new vitality into the field of light and shadow art.

Scene of signing the new book "Lighting Chronicles"

AIGC Themed Sharing

It's worth mentioning that Wang Xiao, an adjunct professor of Interior Design at Shandong University of Art & Design and the Technical Director/Mentor of the AIGC Lighting Design Workshop, delivered a keynote speech titled "AIGC Empowering the Design Industry" through a "digital human" avatar. He discussed how artificial intelligence offers new possibilities in the design and creation of light and shadow art, opening up a new "visual" world filled with diverse creativity for us.

Wang Xiao's "digital avatar" or simply "digital Wang Xiao".

Through the in-depth exchanges and discussions at this meeting, all parties will move forward together in the future, driven by innovation, and continue to make greater contributions to the advancement of digital lighting and shadow technology.