Oct. 8 is a really meaningful day to be remembered by Tongji on Tracks members. It’s the twelfth day Tongji on Tracks 2014 being in Australia, and also the first time for us to hold an exhibition abroad and the first time to show all our projects outcomes publicly.

We arrived Hawthorn Campus of Swinburne University of Technology in the morning and did preparation effectively since the students have been so familiar with the construction and decoration process. For the Eco-China Day exhibition, we provided our projects done in China as well as in Australia. The trip does offer us lots of inspirations! Students collected trash during the trip and made them into recyclable products.

Open ceremony of the exhibition started around 3pm with the beautiful vocal sang by Tongji on Tracks students and all the audience.

Mr. Jeffrey Smart, Vice President of Swinburne University of Technology, Dr. Jiang Bo, Vice President of Tongji University, Prof. Lou Yongqi, Dean of Design and Innovation College, Executive Vice Director of Sino-Finnish Centre, and Eetu, Father of Design Factory were invited to deliver speech respectfully. Tongji on Tracks is a special train carrying and spreading creation, innovation, hope, courage and love all over the world, and they expressed their expectation to us: keep Tongji on Tracks on the road!

Lou Chuyang, graduate student from College of Civil Engineering, Tongji University gave us a short introduction of Eco-China Day as representative of Tongji on Tracks team. He said that students got science spirit, humanistic quality, design thinking, teamwork spirit as well as international vision through the local workshops and international journey. Associate Professor Mei Qing, introduced one of the SFC innovative projects-Moveable House. Actually the amazing thing is not what we achieved, but the process we experienced.

After the open ceremony, students and faculty from Swinburne University of Technology, international design factory family members communicated with Tongji on Tracks students and got to know different projects and stories behind them.

As part of the International Design Factory Week 2014, Eco-China Day gained strong support from Swinburne Design Factory and Swinburne University of Technology a lot. We’d like to thank Ms. Heidi Moschietto, Ms. Alison de Kruiff, Mr. Chris Morrish, Mr. Johan Pang and Mr. Evan Long for their help!