Mei Hsin
Chen Huang

Mei-Hsin Chen obtained her Ph.D. in Art History in 1997 from the University of Navarra in Pamplona, Spain. She subsequently completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the Department of Higher Education of the Ministry of Education of Taiwan, funded by the National Science Council of Taiwan, contributing to the advancement of humanistic education in Taiwanese universities. From 2001 to 2008, she held faculty and research positions at Taipei National University of the Arts and the College of Design of Shih-Chien University (Taipei, Taiwan). In 2008, she joined the University of Navarra as a faculty member, also directing international mobility for the ISSA School of Applied Management from 2008 to 2014. During this period, she participated in numerous European educational innovation projects funded by the European Commission and served as a visiting professor at several European universities within the framework of LLP/Erasmus and Erasmus+ programs. At the University of Navarra, she has taught courses on visual culture, art theory, aesthetics, craftsmanship, and intercultural communication across the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, the School of Architecture, and the ISSA School of Applied Management. Her research interests encompass art history and theory, aesthetics/aisthesis, visual culture, and design, with a focus on their intersections with interculturality, multidisciplinarity, social change, sustainability, integral ecology, and, more recently, artificial intelligence. Her work centers on the concept of the “artistic-ecological niche,” exploring how internal and external factors shape both artistic creation and audience perception. She has published numerous journal articles, books, and book chapters, and contributed to national and international conferences in her areas of expertise. he is also an editorial member of several international journals. She has participated in two University of Navarra research projects focused on Antoni Tàpies and on art as a tool for social transformation, with part of this work supporting the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Since the creation of the Museum of the University of Navarra (MUN), she has been involved in its international cooperation, establishing links with other university museums, particularly in Europe. She is also a member of several national and international associations and networks dedicated to art and aesthetics, and since 2017, has been part of the research group “Aesthetics and Contemporary Art” at the University of Navarra.