EP26 | How Creative Education Reaches the World — Yuan Ze University Assistant Professor Li Chi-jui Joins The Great Artist to Discuss Exhibitions, Internships, and the Future of the Cultural Industrie

From the dual perspective of an educator and an ALEA board member, charting a path of practice that opens the international stage to Taiwan's students

[Taipei] On the DE Global Art Agency podcast The Great Artist (EP26), we welcome lecturer Li Chi-jui — an educator whose work spans theatre, the cultural industries, and cultural policy, and who is also a board member of the French art association ALEA. In this episode, from the standpoint of the cultural industries and international exchange, he explores in depth how art and creative education can respond to the competitive international landscape of our time.

Li Chi-jui's academic and practical background is considerable. He graduated from the Department of Drama at the National Taiwan University of Arts, earned a master's degree in drama from Chinese Culture University, and is currently pursuing doctoral studies in cultural industries and cultural policy at Yuan Ze University, having long devoted himself to arts education, cultural research, and interdisciplinary teaching practice. This diverse background, spanning theatre, the cultural industries, and cultural policy, allows him to examine the contemporary questions of arts education from a more panoramic and integrated perspective.

Against the backdrop of globalization and the rapid development of the cultural industries, arts education has gradually shifted toward an integrated mode of learning that combines cultural vision, industry understanding, and international experience. Li Chi-jui notes that contemporary art and creative education can no longer focus solely on technique and aesthetics; it must also help students build a professional foundation endowed with international mobility and practical competence. Only thus can students find their footing within a fiercely competitive international environment.

This episode focuses on several key dimensions: how one's academic and practical background shapes one's teaching philosophy and methods; the challenges and characteristics that contemporary students face in art and creative learning; the far-reaching impact of international exhibitions, international competitions, and cross-border exchange on students' further study and career development; the possibility and necessity of cooperation between schools and international platforms (such as the ALEA association); and the role that Ministry of Education subsidies, cross-border internships, and industry-academia collaboration play within the arts education system.

Li Chi-jui particularly emphasizes that, in today's rapidly developing cultural industries, international exhibitions, international competitions, and cross-border exchange have shifted from "bonus items" to key assets that shape students' further study and career development. Cooperation between schools and international platforms such as ALEA, paired with Ministry of Education subsidies, cross-border internships, and industry-academia collaboration, can forge for students a path of practice leading directly from campus to the international stage. This integrated model of cultivation is precisely the crucial key to Taiwan's arts education reaching the world.

Through Li Chi-jui's dual perspective as an educator and an ALEA board member, this episode shows how arts education, the cultural industries, and international platforms can connect with and elevate one another. This is precisely the core that DE Global Art Agency advocates — taking academic legitimacy as its foundation, paving an international career path for Taiwan's students and young creators.

The Great Artist EP26 is now available on Apple Podcasts, SoundOn, and other platforms, with a running time of about 33 minutes. We invite you to listen and explore, together with Li Chi-jui, the path by which creative education reaches the world.