Integration and innovation: Learning by exchanging views - A report of the cross-cultural design workshop for stone craving

Abstract

This article reports on a cross-cultural design workshop held at Fuzhou, China, 25–30 December 2015. The workshop was intended to provide a platform that would bring together artists in stone craving, academic researchers, and managers from stone craving industries, in order to focus exclusively on the teaching of creativity in stone craving for the future. Sessions were devoted to works exhibition, cross-disciplinary courses and cross-cultural design workshops. This study focuses on the cross-cultural workshop which included the desirability of creativity throughout the curriculum, and particularly focuses on coaching, learning, and practicing. The purposes of the workshop emphasized interactive learning and addressed the interactions of practicing. Results are presented herein to establish a platform for examining the way artists communicate across culture as well as the interwoven experience of stone craving and culture in the creation process.