on oct. 17, the homework of china 2015 ended successfully after 3 months. dobe group’s board chairman jia bo was awarded the trophy for tutors of the homework of china 2015.
the homework of china 2015 is an online public benefit activity initiated and sponsored by shedunews.com for students during the summer holiday. it got support from fudan university, shanghai jiao tong university, tongji university, and east china normal university throughout. the activity invited influential figures from all walks of life as tutors, to assign characteristic “homework of china” to primary school and middle school students taking part in the activity, to enrich their social practice during the summer holiday. dobe group’s board chairman jia bo was invited to be a tutor of the homework of china 2015.
jia bo assigned the task “find the beauty of creativity around you” to the young students, provided dobe e-manor of changning and dobe sports loft park, and arranged staff to lead the children to have a special tour of culture and creation in the parks. designers have made dobe e-manor of changning, former institute 809 of shanghai space administration, into a simple and comfortable garden-style ecological office space by using black and white, integrating the spirit of the book of changes, looking for rules in the “changed” and “unchanged”. dobe sports loft park, former east china electric welding machine factory of shanghai electric group, has characteristic buildings constructed from the 1920s to the 1990s. today, a “red track” links up 21 independent creative spaces, equipped with sports facilities like a climbing gym and basketball court. it has become the first cultural and creative park with “sports office and healthy work” as theme in china. the free and comfortable park environment made the students find it hard to associate the park with its former appearance. they all exclaimed over the strength of creativity and design.
“the homework of china” let history and culture walk into students’ life, let children train their innovation ability while making exploration. this is hard to achieve by any common homework. dobe implants creativity into tangible buildings. the cultural introduction lesson let children enter life and walk into cultural and creative parks, to try another way of study, feel the beauty of creativity while learning culture.
