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Dean of the College of Design and Innovation, Tongji University, Shanghai, Former Cumulus Vice President; Cumulus Executive Board (2013-2016)<\/p>\n
Prof. Dr. LOU Yongqi, PhD, is Dean of the College of Design and Innovation at Tongji University in Shanghai, Fellow of Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA), and Vice President of China Industrial Design Association(CIDA).
\nLou has been the pioneer in China for design-driven innovation education, research and practices that connect design, business, and technology.<\/p>\n
He is the founder of Design Harvests<\/em>, a design-driven urban-rural interaction project; Shanghai Tongji-Huangpu School of Design and Innovation, the first design-thinking K12 school in China; and She Ji \u2014 the Journal of Design, Innovation, and Economics<\/em> published by Tongji University and Elsevier.<\/p>\n Lou served as the board director of World Design Organization (WDO) and Vice President of CUMULUS, International Association of Universities and Colleges of Art, Design and Media. He is the Editorial Board Member of the journal Design Issues<\/em> published by The MIT Press, and the Journal of Visual Arts<\/em> published by Taylor & Francis.<\/p>\n He was invited as the keynote speaker in many conferences such as BODW 2018, IFI 2017, IDSA 2016, ACM SIGCHI 2015, WDC 2014 Design Policy Conference, IIT Design Strategy 2013 etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"