Stimulating Students in Logical Thinking and Imagination Through a New Multi-Analysis Method - A Sino-Italian Collaborative Class Experience

The Chinese “National Medium and Long-Term Educational Reform and Development Plan (2010-2020)” clearly stated: “Encourage schools at all levels to carry out various forms of international exchanges and cooperation, explore various ways to introduce high-quality foreign teaching resources, and improve exchanges level of cooperation”. Under this policy background, the Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture (BUCEA) has carried out teaching and research cooperation with the Politecnico di Milano (POLIMI). This collaboration permitted to achieve remarkable results in discussing on Sino-European urban landscapes, resilient cities, landscape, and heritage protection also through the global identity authentication alliance EduGAIN, sharing high-quality educational resources via the digital resource platform “Cedation Network Federal Certification and Resource Sharing Infrastructure” (CARSI) combining for the first time the BUCEA’s “Landscape Architecture International Design Work Camp” course with POLIMI’s “Metabolism of City and Landscape” to jointly build a long-term professional “Collaborative Class” under the EU education model.