Title:

Tenured Professor, Academic Director, Research Office

Professional Affiliations:
• Member, Interior Design Branch of the Architectural Society of China
• Committee Member, Interior Design Council of China Industrial Design Association
• Member, China Arts & Crafts Association

Research Focus:

1.Visual Language of Design Representation

2.Contemporary Socio-cultural Contexts and Interior Design

Academic Philosophy:
Research Direction 1:
Visual representation serves as both the cornerstone of design education and a critical component of professional practice. Originating from the Italian "disegno" (literally "drawing"), the term "design" emerged concurrently with Renaissance advancements in perspective, geometry, and mathematics. This historical symbiosis between representational techniques and intellectualized design practice persists in the digital era, presenting three key characteristics:

1.Mediator between conceptualization and realization: Design visualization bridges abstract ideas and physical implementation while facilitating critical discourse.

2.Conduit of designer intent: As the primary vehicle for communicating unrealized concepts, visual representations enable creative exploration independent of material constraints.

3.Liminal materiality: Existing between the tangible and conceptual, hand-drawn representations increasingly merge with design substance itself. This phenomenon creates new experiential dimensions where image-making becomes both process and product, offering designers a fluid medium for conceptual experimentation.

Contemporary research in design visualization transcends technical mastery, intersecting with design history, architectural theory, visual culture, semiotics, sociology, and cognitive psychology - forming an interdisciplinary frontier of academic inquiry.

Research Direction 2:
In the global context of cultural transformation, this research examines interior design's evolving relationship with socio-cultural dynamics. Building upon doctoral research investigating interior design within consumer culture paradigms, current work employs multidisciplinary approaches (sociology, semiotics, media studies, cultural anthropology) to analyze design responses to shifting cultural values.

The research advocates transcending formalist approaches in Chinese interior design practice, proposing new theoretical frameworks informed by environmental anthropology, everyday life studies, and phenomenological typologies. This paradigm shift addresses urgent needs for socially-conscious design methodologies in contemporary China.

Research Outputs:
• Authored 4 CD-ROM textbooks under the National Tenth Five-Year Key Publications Plan
• Published monographs:

·Design Hand-drawn Expression: The Interaction Between Thinking and Representation

·Design & Representation: Sketch Collection of Cui Xiaosheng

·Consumer Culture and Interior Design (monograph)
• Forthcoming publications:

·Hand-drawn Design Expression (China Water & Power Press)

·Interior Representation Techniques (China Central Radio & TV University Press)
• Key academic papers:

·"Ambiguity of Spatial Boundaries in Contemporary Design"

·"Pan-Aesthetic Tendencies in Modern Interior Design"

·"Artistic Pursuits and Marginalization in Contemporary Interior Design"

·"Interior Design in the Age of Consumer Seduction"

·"Returning to the Ordinary State"