Abstract

The Digital Intelligence age is rapidly reshaping the boundaries of human cognition and revolutionizing existing tool systems, presenting both formidable challenges and opportunities for humanity’s unique perceptual abilities and creativity. Against this backdrop, aesthetic education demonstrates irreplaceable value in safeguarding and developing human spiritual agency through its cultivation of imagination and stimulation of innovative potential.
Aesthetic Intelligence is often defined as the comprehensive cognitive capacity for understanding, appreciating, and creating beauty. It represents an integrated construct of aesthetic abilities—including perception, judgment, imagination, creation, and emotional resonance—serving as a pivotal bridge between humanistic spirit and technological rationality.
This lecture focuses on the innovative pathways and developmental trends of aesthetic education in the digital-intelligent era. Integrating policy text analysis based on the Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) model with cross-cultural aesthetic education practice research, it systematically explores the current evolutionary directions and innovative strategies of aesthetic education, further elucidating the cultivation mechanisms of aesthetic intelligence. Aesthetic intelligence not only stimulates individual aesthetic creativity but also guides us toward a future characterized by heightened perceptiveness, creativity, and empathy.

Speaker Bio

Xiaowei Tang is a visiting student at Harvard FAS CAMLab (2025-2026) and doctoral student at Central Academy of Fine Arts. Her research interests include Chinese Aesthetic Education, Mathematical and Intellectual Aesthetic Education, Aesthetic Cognition and Experience.

Event Information

• Free and open to the public
• November 21th (Friday)
• 12:00 – 1:30 PM ET
• This is an in-person event.

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Advanced RSVP required.
The event will be conducted in Mandarin Chinese.