On Friday the 2^nd of April, Chinese students of Qingdao University taught arts and cultural customs to students of the China based design school of L’Ecole de design Nantes Atlantique.

All of them had a lot of fun…

Program: taijiquan 太极拳, calligraphy 书法, Bejing opera 京剧, tea ceremony, traditional songs, hand-held fan dance, kite festival history, Chinese traditional legends…

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On the 16th of March, the French 4th year students of the Chinese Campus of L’Ecole de design Nantes Atlantique met the Chinese students of Qingdao University. Specialised in French language, these students were welcome to meet with the French and find a partner to lead further on an anthropological study in China.

For 60 minutes, students did one-to-one three-minute small meetings to get to know each other.

They finally came up with 20 groups.

They will meet again next week.

To be continued…

Frédéric, Maud and Charles

Juliette and François

Agathe and Irène

Clarisse and Claire

Pierre-Emmanuel and Lili

Nathalie and Emmanuelle

Sophie and Nicolas

Caroline and Adrien

Emna and Agnès

Louis and Sylvain

Charlotte and Jeanne

Charles and Maud

Julie and Aurélie

Nermine and Hélène

Nicolas and Benoît

Victor and Pierre

Géraldine and Stéphanie

Frédéric and Charles

Fanny and Anaëlle

Mickaël and Cécile

Colette and Céline

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From the 4th to the 9th of January, SONG Guannan, the assistant and interpreter of the Chinese campus of L’Ecole de design Nantes Atlantique, came and visit the France based design school. Since she had never been there, she really appreciated meeting her colleagues. She will think of them back in China.

Nan and the Communication team

Nan and Yvette

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On  Monday the 19th of October, Seb-Supor R&D Center offered a design brief to 20 students of L’Ecole de design Nantes Atlantique and the School of Industrial Design of Shandong University of Art and Design.

For 5 days, each of the 5 teams will work on a range of 3 different blenders that will be meant for the Chinese market.

Seb-Supor 苏泊尔 is a joint venture that was created in 2006. Founded in 1994, Supor is the leader of the cookware market in China and the third largest cookware company in the world. It is number 5 in China on the cookware small domestic appliances market. Working on these blenders might then be an opportunity for it to go up the national scale in the small domestic appliances market.

Pascal Novis, Marketing director at Seb-Supor and his assistant

Amy Liu (Chinese), Product Supervisor and Lijing Zeng (French), Junior Product Manager at Supor in Hangzhou

Frédéric Bonin, Designer and head of studies at the Chinese Campus of L’Ecole de design Nantes Atlantique. He leads the workshop with 2 other teachers of the School of Industrial Design of Shandong University of Art and Design

The School of Industrial Design of Shandong University of Art and Design offers a Bachelor degree and a Master degree in Industrial Design. Located in the surroundings of Jinan, it appears to be a wonderful place to study.

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L’Ecole de design Nantes Atlantique will participate in the Icograda Education Network show in Beijing from the 24th to the 30th of October 2009.
Co-organised by Cumulus network, this event will be held during the 2009 Beijing Icograda World Design Congress. It will offer 21 universities the opportunity to present their programmes and their students achievements.
Venue :
China Central Academy of Fine Arts
www.cafa.edu.cn

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The Chinese campus of L’Ecole de design Nantes Atlantique is based on Qingdao University campus.

Qingdao University is a comprehensive university in Shandong Province, which was combined with the former Qingdao University, Shandong Textile Engineering Institute, Qingdao Medical College and Qingdao Teachers’ College in 1993. It comprises of 25 colleges and about 50000 students.

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