Zhejiang Sci-Tech University

Mission Statement

Design is one of the advantages and characteristics of our school, with a hundred years of history. As early as 1897, it started the education of modern Chinese textile and silk design. In 1913, the teacher of our school wrote the first Chinese design lecture "Patterning". The clothing design direction of this major has been selected into the national first-class professional plan, and the subject ranks in the top 5% of ARWU. There are 16 doctoral supervisors, 6 national research bases and 8 provincial research bases.

Main Focus

This subject follows the principle of integrating art and science, facing the open social needs and expanding diversity, studies the occurrence, development, application and communication of design, and forms the technology, theory and service of textile and silk digital design on the basis of undergraduate and graduate professional education knowledge system through the education and teaching orientation of imparting a number of professional abilities. In order to cultivate high-level talents who are rooted in oriental aesthetics, activate modern design, interdisciplinary background and cross-border integration design thinking, the four directions of fashion design and theory, human settlements design and theory, and silk design history and theory are proposed. The doctoral level teaching structure of design is guided by inheriting and innovating Chinese and foreign design culture, deepening the problem orientation on the basis of extensive knowledge, and cultivating students' ability of in-depth research and sustainable innovation through cross-border integrated thinking and innovative design method training.