International Design Conference for Sustainability

Japan will be hosting the International Design Conference for 
Sustainability from December 14 to December 15, 2006 in Tokyo. This 
conference will be an opportunity to discuss many aspects related to 
engineering, technology and sustainability.

You can check the detailed information from the following website.

http://www.openhouse.co.jp/EDI/destination2026/index_e.html

Or scroll down this e-mail message. (The abridged version of the 
conference information.)

If you happen to be in Tokyo during this time, or wish to attend the 
conference, please contact Mie Suzuki

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International Design Conference for Sustainability

[Date]

Conference: December 14 and 15, 2006
Exhibition: December 14, 15 and 16, 2006
Held within the Eco Products 2006

http://www.vcc.ne.jp/eco2006/english/index.html

[Venue]

Conference: Room 607+608, Conference Tower, Tokyo Big Sight 
Exhibition: East Hall 3, 3097, Tokyo Big Sight

[Conference]

Worsening environment on the earth Since the 1990s, industrialized 
nations, led by Japan, have been developing environmentally feasible 
technologies and products, and their advancements are substantial. 
But volume consumption of natural resources, emission of CO2, and 
global warming factors defining the achievement of sustainability on 
the earth scale, are far yet to be achieved.

Describing the sustainable society's image In order to tackle the 
problems, it is urgently necessary to discuss sustainability, defined 
in terms of a conventional industrial technology, industrial economy, 
and social system. What is the future of our sustainable society, 
which we foresee? First, we need to begin drawing images of our 
perspective as descriptive as possible. One cannot create a roadmap 
without any destinations.

Necessity of sustainable design It is time to recognize design fields 
potential and power of expressions, conceptualisms to achieve 
sustainable design. To excel such process, it is important to create 
a bridge between design and the related fields, and we therefore 
declare the proposal for the International Conference of Design for 
Sustainability.

[The speakers]

http://www.openhouse.co.jp/EDI/destination2026/22_e.html

Ezio Manzini / Dis, Indaco Politecnico di Milano, Sustainable Everyday Project

Francois Jegou / Dis, Indaco Politecnico di Milano, Sustainable 
Everyday Project

Jakki Dehn / the Senior Lecturer in Product and Furniture Design at 
Kingston University

Tom Johnson / Arch, the co-founder of the Design Resource Awards Competition

Philip White / the chair of the Ecodesign Section of the Industrial 
Designers Society of America (IDSA)

Maria Cecilia Loschiavo / Professora Associada Universidade de Sao Paulo

Ryoichi Yamamoto / the Professor at the Institute of Industrial 
Science, University of Tokyo

Emile H. Ishida / the Professor at Graduate School of Environmental 
Studies and Eco-material Design & Process Engineering, Tohoku 
University

Fumikazu Masuda / a Professor of Tokyo Zokei University, 
Representative of Founding organizer

Manabu Akaike, / Executive Director of Universal Design Institute

Toshiro Ikegami / a Professor of Kyoto City University of Arts

Keiji Kawahara / Executive Director of International Conference for 
Universal Design

Teruo Kurosaki / CEO of sasugasouzoushuudan co., ltd., Founder idee

Nobuho Miyawaki / Chief Designer, Technical Research Center 
Headquarters Design Center, INAX Corporation

Toyoyuki Uematsu / President, Panasonic Design Company, Matsushita 
Electric Co., Ltd.

Kimitaka Kato / General Manager of Design Center of Fujitsu Limited.

[Exhibition]

--Sustainable Everyday--

http://www.sustainable-everyday.net/

Sustainable Everyday is a project to design business models by 
Prof.Ezio Manzini and Prof.Francois Jegou, including roadmaps and 
sample cases, in a sustainable society. The scenarios were developed 
by students from Europe, North America, South America, and Asia. This 
exhibition has traveled all over Europe, including Milan, Brussels, 
and Paris. In this time exhibition, the first to be seen in Asia, you 
will have an opportunity to view their creative ideas with many 
illustrations and videos.

[Admission:conference+exhibition]

*The admission includes Japanese translated version of the 
Sustainable Everyday Catalog.

Individual JPY 20, 000
Corporate JPY 50, 000 (Allows up to 3 persons)
Student JPY 5, 000

[How to register]

http://www.openhouse.co.jp/EDI/destination2026/34_e.html

Please send a E-mail to us with these informations.

* Registration Category - Please choose your category from 
Individual, Corporate, Sutudent
* Name - If you are taking Corporate registration, please also tell 
us other person's name too)
* Affiliation
* E-mail adress
* Tel.
* Fax.

Upon receiving the message, please complete the transaction for the 
registration fee within 2 weeks. Once the transaction is confirmed, 
you will receive an admission package by 14 days before the 
conference.

[Organized by]

Executive Committee for Destination 2026

[Co-organized by]

Asian Productivity Organization

[Supported by]

Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry/METI, Ministry of the 
Environment, Osaka Prefectural Government, The Japan Environmental 
Management Association for Industry/JEMAI, Japan Industrial 
Designers' Association/JIDA, Japan Interior Designers' Association/ 
JID, Japan Graphic Designers Association Inc., Japan Display Design 
Association/DDA, Japan Package Design Association/JPDA, Japan Design 
Foundation/JDF, Japan Industrial Design Promotion Organization/JIDPO, 
the Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo Zokei 
University, Eco Design Promotion Network, Eco Design Network, Green 
Map Japan, Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Inc., Union of EcoDesigners, Eco 
Bussiness Creation Association, International Conference for 
Universal Design/IAUD, Japanese Society for the Science of 
Design/JSSD, Japan Institute of Design, Japan Design Consultation 
Association/JDCA, Nature Technology Research Consortium, Universal 
Design Consortium/UDC, Universal Design Forum/ UDF, o2 Global Network 
foundation - o2.org - international network on sustainable design, o2 
Japan

[Supporting company]

ITOKI Corporation, INAX Corporation, KAZARI-ICHI Co., Ltd., SEIKO 
EPSON Corporation, Tokyo Pulp & Paper Co., Ltd., TOSHIBA Corporation, 
Fujitsu Limited, Design Center, YAMATAKE Corporation
[Founding organizer]

http://www.openhouse.co.jp/EDI/destination2026/10_e.html


WEBSITE

www.ecodesigninstitute.com

Secretariat
The Committee for the International Conference of Design for
Sustainability
1-22-8 Hamamatsucho Minato-ku Tokyo, 105-0013
TEL +81(0)3 6826-1511 FAX +81(0) 3578-1459
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