The International Conference of Culture and Creativity 2015 (ICCC 2015) kicked off at National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) in Tainan on January 5, with over 60 professors and students from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and NCKU to explore issues of cultural creativity and innovation of city culture.

On behalf of NCKU, Dean of College of Planning and Design Fong‐Gong Wu extended his warm welcome to CUHK faculty and students traveling to Tainan to participate in the three-day conference.

At the opening ceremony, Dean of Faculty of Social Science at CUHK Chi-Yue Chiu said, “I look forward to this opportunity learning more from you again and this time we bring our students from CUHK to learn from students at NCKU.”

“I think this will be a very exciting learning opportunity for all of us,” added Chiu.

“Also I hope the students at the conference not only working together on issues of common interests but developing long lasting friendship, so that after this conference we continue to work together.”

“To me this is a very interesting cultural journey as well,” said Chiu, “because coming here to learn about Tainan culture and to learn about the efforts that NCKU has put into serving and extending the Tainan culture and creating a lot of very important interface with neighboring cultures.”

As one of the key organizers, Prof. Shyh-Nan Liou from the Institute of Creative Industries Design (ICID) said, “ICCC 2015 is the 5th annual international conference started from 2010.”

“We focus on two topics this year, one is the exchange of the students’ projects on culture city and the other is to reflect on the current issues of creative industry,” added Liou.

After the ceremony, Chiu talked about cultural mixing and shared some of the work that they done in Hong Kong.

Vice Dean of Wu Yee Sun College of CUHK Annisa Lai Lee gave a talk on Between Image and Reality: A Borrowed Dream and a Local Flower.

Chiu and Lee have led 18 students to join the three-day conference and co-work with professors and students of NCKU.

Lok Hei Leung majoring journalism at CUHK said, “We have a C-lab at CUHK doing the similar things as NCKU’s C-hub.”