Garlen Kwok



“Limen Co-constructing the Boundaries” Beijing Normal University SFD Degree Show 2025
“之间·共构的边界” 北京师范大学未来设计学院2025毕业展视觉设计


In an era of rapidly evolving generative technologies, we no longer confront the world in isolation. Instead, we coexist and coevolve within an intricate web of interactions among the world, technology, and humanity. Design is no longer merely a tool for problem-solving; it has become a practice of the “in-between” – emerging in the spaces between nature and the artificial, culture and data, reality and the virtual, the individual and the system. This year’s Degree Show revolves around the notion of the “LIMEN”: a lifeform that merges at the boundaries, and an understanding built through encounters and differences. Art and technology permeate one another, generating digitized emotional experiences. Service and care penetrate the surface of technology, touching the subtle threads and deeper textures of society. Education and the future are imagined together, awakening a new generation’s modes of perception and cognition through space, image, and play. Within the “LIMEN“, the subject is no longer solitary, and the boundaries become fluid.

This graduation exhibition anchors itself in the core proposition of **“Limen Co-constructing the Boundaries”.”** It delves deeply into the intricate, web-like interactions among the **world, technology, and humanity.** The main visual concept boldly introduces **Strange Attractors** as its central design language. The inherent characteristics of strange attractors—deterministic chaos, fractal structure, boundedness, and non-periodicity—are ingeniously transformed into a concrete expression of design’s cross-disciplinary innovation and integration. 

Drawing upon four mathematical prototypes—**Dadras, Elhadj-Sprott, Lorenz, and Thomas** attractor systems—the design embodies deterministic chaos as a visual metaphor for the academy’s interdisciplinary educational philosophy. The diverse fields of **art, technology, service, and education**, though seemingly independent, resemble initial conditions within an attractor system: each follows nonlinear trajectories within phase space, mutually influencing and converging into self-organized, intricate fractal structures. Just as minute perturbations in an attractor’s initial conditions can trigger creative evolution, the collision and fusion of different knowledge systems give rise to unexpected cognitive leaps and innovative outcomes.


在生成式技术加速演进的今天，我们早已不再单一地面对世界，而是在“世界—技术—人”交互涌现的网状关系中共存与共变。设计不再是解决问题的工具，而是一种“之间”的实践——在自然与人工之间、文化与数据之间、现实与虚拟之间，在个体与系统的缝隙中生长。本届毕业设计展览围绕“之间”展开探索：这是在边界处生成的生命，是在相遇与差异之间构建的理解。艺术与科技相互渗透，催生数字化的情感体验；服务与关怀穿透技术表层，触及社会的脉络与细微之处；教育与未来共同想象，用空间、图像、游戏重塑新一代的感知与认知方式。在“之间”之中，主体不再孤立，边界成为流动之地。

本次毕业展锚定 “之间・共构的边界” 核心命题，深度探索 “世界 — 技术 — 人” 交织而成的网状交互关系。主视觉设计大胆引入奇异吸引子（Strange Attractors）作为核心视觉语言，将其蕴含的确定性混沌、分形结构、有界性与非周期性特质，巧妙转化为设计学科跨领域融合创新的具象表达。​

以 Dadras、Elhadj-Sprott、Lorenz、Thomas 四个数学原型构建的奇异吸引子系统，其展现出的确定性混沌特性，恰似学院跨学科教育理念的视觉隐喻。艺术、科技、服务、教育等看似离散独立的专业领域，如同吸引子系统中不同的初始条件，在相空间内遵循非线性轨迹相互牵引、彼此影响，最终自组织形成复杂精妙的分形结构。这正如吸引子系统中，初始条件的细微扰动便能触发创造性演化，不同知识体系在碰撞交融中，催生出意想不到的认知跃迁与创新成果。