Japan Industrial Design Promotion Organization
Activity
International Design liaison center
*Establishment of the "International Design liaison center" - international base for linkage with academic institution
Japan Industrial Design Promotion Organization moves the activity base to "Tokyo Midtown (complex to be constructed on the former Defense Agency site)" next spring. Along with this, our roll of creating "Design of the 21st century" will be enhanced. As a part of this effort, we will establish the "International Design liaison center" with support from Mitsui Fudosan -the developer of the "Tokyo Midtown".
This "International Design liaison center" will be a base for linkage between foreign academic institutions that receives high acclaim internationally, industries of Japan, and designers.
This center will create design and designers of the new era not only by individual reserach, design lectures and seminars but also cooperating each other.
Design practice in Japan might have weekness in making theory as a methodology and make the best use of it for personnel training. Moreover, education that relates management and design for practical management is hardly done in Japan. The design education in multiple languages and countries seems to be more effective when thinking on the assumption of internationalization of design activity.
"International Design liaison center" is expected to play a major role in solving these problems in Japan.
[List of the academic institutions participating in the "International Design liaison center"]
Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, Delft University of Technology (Netherland)
University of Art and design Helsinki (Finland)
Zollverein School of management and design gGmbH (Germany)
Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology (U.S.A.)
Graduate Program in Design Management Pratt Institute (U.S.A.)
Industrial Design Department, Academy of Arts and Design, Tsinghua University (China)
Department of Design Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Graduate School, Chiba University (Japan)
Graduate School of Design, Kyushu University (Japan)
[Facility Outline]
Location: east side, 5th floor of the "Tokyo Midtown tower building"
Floor space: . About 200 square meters
(located on the same floor with the JIDPO office. The display space of about 300 square meters will be set up separately. )
Seminar room, exhibition corner for each academic institutions etc. will be set up.
[Activity Outline]
The activity that the participating institutions will develop individually is now being examined. It will be announced when details are clarified.
"International symposium" forcusing on the issues on design research/development and the personnel training for the next generation is scheduled to be held in May 2007.
Please see International Design liaison center Website for more information.