EcoDesign 2005: Symposium on Environmentally Conscious Design

4th International Symposium on Environmentally Conscious Design and Inverse Manufacturing December 12-14, 2005 Tokyo Japan
Deadline of Symposium Registration: November 16, 2005

"EcoDesign 2005: Forth International Symposium on Environmentally Conscious Design and Inverse Manufacturing" will be held on December 12-14, 2005 in Tokyo, Japan. This symposium is organized by the Union of EcoDesigners, Japan, under the unified subtitle "Going Green" that is commonly used among IEEE International Symposium on Electronics and the Environment, CARE/Electronics Goes Green, and EcoDesign. The third symposium EcoDesign 2003 gathered over 300 participants and about 180 presentations from Europe, U.S.A., and Asia. The aim of EcoDesign is to construct sustainable societies by developing and deploying various environmentally conscious businesses, services, and products. While the movement of EcoDesign is successfully promoted by various legislative activities in many countries, innovative environmentally conscious businesses have not achieved majority yet, including, for instance, product & service system and servicization. In order to step forward, EcoDesign 2005 includes a variety of topics such as environmentally conscious design, enabling technologies, business, social system, infrastructure and life cycle management.

Especially, the 4th symposium focuses on two special themes; EcoDesign of social system and EcoDesign in Asia. The former reflects our recognition that the global environmental issues are getting worse although our EcoDesign activities. Therefore, we need integration of various EcoDesign actions into design of sustainable social system, in addition to individual EcoDesign activities. The latter, EcoDesign in Asia, comes from the fact that rapid industrialization, growing markets, and fast increasing living standards in Asia are becoming a pivot for the global sustainability and therefore one of the main concern of EcoDesign.

Program Overview

December 12

Opening

Plenary Lecture: Vision 2050 and the Role of Japan toward the Sustainable Society Prof. Hiroshi Komiyama (President, the University of Tokyo, Japan)

Topics of regular sessions:
Sustainable Society and Business, Consumer Modeling, Ecodesign Education, Eco-SCM, Eco-Product and Eco-Material in Asia, Biomass-Material, Eco-Material, Waste and Disposal, Design for Disassembly, System Design for Remanufacturing, Modular Design, Eco-Product, Tool/Method for DfE, Renewable Energy and New Energy Technology, Recycling System/Technology

December 13

Plenary Session: EcoDesign in Asia
(Prof. Ryoichi Yamamoto (the University of Tokyo, Japan), Dr. Xia Guang (State Environmental Protection Administration, China), Dr.
Narito Shibaike (Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd, Japan), Mr Chen, Panfeng (Huawei Tech Co. Ltd., China))

Topics of regular sessions:
Eco-SCM, Life Cycle Design, Service Engineering, LCA for EcoDesign, Remanufacturing, Energy Conservation, Environmental Load Reduction in Asia, Design for Environment in Asia, Recycling in Asia, Soldering Technology

December 14

Plenary Session: International Standardization of EcoDesign

Dr. Yoshiaki Ichikawa (Hitachi Ltd., Japan), Mr. Kouichi Shioda (METI, Japan), Mr. Andrea Legnani (Italian Federation of Electrotechnical and Electronic Industries, EU)

Topics of regular sessions:
Life Cycle Scenario, Life Cycle Simulation/Lifetime Estimation, End of Life Product, Tool/Method for DfE, EcoDesign Tool, Life Cycle Cost and Management, Soldering Technology, Ecological Footprint, Eco-Efficiency/EcoDesign Impact, Recycling in Asia, Legislation for EcoDesign

December 15
Technical Tour (Hyper Cycle Co. Ltd. And EcoProducts 2005 Exibition)

Symposium Organizer
Union of EcoDesigners
(Association of EcoDesign Societies, Japan) EcoDesign 2005 Secretariat NPO EcoDesign Promotion Network ecodesign2005 ecodenet.com In Cooperation With IEEE CS TCEE, USA CARE Electronics, Europe

Supported by
Ministry of the Environment, Japan
Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, Japan Ministry of Land Infrastructure and Transport, Japan Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan

EcoDesign2005: http://www.ecodenet.com/ed2005/

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