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Wednesday, 14 November 2007 | Levent OZLER
Design for Social Innovation: Destination 2025
How can we create an ecologically sustainable society by conserving the global environment? In the International New Designers Workshop 2007, young designers will focus on this urgent, universal theme and create proposals for the shift to a sustainable future.
First, workshop participants will visit "Eco-Products 2007", the world's largest exhibition of environmentally-friendly technology, services and products, held annually in Tokyo since 1999. They will then move to Nagoya, situated in the Chubu central district of Japan, and make a field tour there to analyze the maximum effect of the pursuit of technological skills and energy resource through'monozukuri' (manufacturing) in the region, where efficiency-enhancing knowledge have been intently cultivated during industrial development.
After conducting this research, they will join the 2nd "International Conference of Design for Sustainability Destination 2007-2025", held at the world heritage site of Shirakawa-go, a village that has maintained an ancient harmony with the natural environment. There they will have discussions and make presentations together with expert conference delegates hailing from Japan and abroad. In the series of workshops, young designers from various nationalities and backgrounds will try to verify necessary action by envisioning a possible sustainable future perceived from diverse angles. The final presentation on the results from this workshop will be delivered at the International Design Center NAGOYA.
Workshop Participants
This workshop is open to students from architecture, industrial design, visual communication design, multimedia, as well as professional young in-house designers from companies, and writers from design related magazines. To encourage cross-disciplinary collaboration amongst academic institutions and industries, each team will be made up of members from different disciplines, gender, and cultural backgrounds.
Participating schools (tentative)
Hong-Ik University (Korea) ・National Institute of Design (India) ・Shih-Chien University (Taiwan) ・Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Hong Kong)・University of Stellenbosch (South Africa) ・Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music・Aichi Sangyo University・Meijo University・Musashino Art University・Nagoya City University・Nagoya Industrial University・Nagoya University・Nagoya University of Arts・Nagoya Zokei University of Art and Design・Nagoya University of Arts and Sciences・Tokyo University・Tokyo Zokei University・ Tsukuba University and others
Organizer
International New Designers Workshop Organizing Committee（City of Nagoya , International Design Center NAGOYA）
Co-Organizer
International Conference of Design for Sustainability Destination 2007-2025
Producer
Leimei Julia Chiu（Director, Global Communications, International Design Center NAGOYA Inc.）
Workshop Creative Director
Fumikazu Masuda (Professor, Tokyo Zokei University / President, Open House Co., Ltd.)
Call for Participation
Overseas participants are welcome to sign up for this workshop.
Registration fee of 60,000 Japanese yen (around 500 U.S.$) will be born by the organizers. Space is limited.
Deadline for Registration: Saturday 24 November, 2007
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