Our spatial designers, Echiyo Suzuki and Ryo Onishi, will be speaking at the "Wood concept design Award 2019" special seminar (December 6th, Tokyo).

Our spatial designer, Echiyo Suzuki, and Ryo Onishi, concept design director of the Kanda Myojin Cultural Exchange Center "EDOCCO," which won the Cultural Facilities/Special Award, will be speaking at the "Wood concept design concept design 2019" special seminar (hosted by the Wood Design Award Management Office). The moderator will be Ms. Asako Nagano, Director of the Wood Utilization Division of the Forestry Agency. We look forward to seeing many of you there.

 

<Seminar overview>

"Wood concept design Award 2019" Special Seminar

~A new era of "wood concept design" that leads to new value creation~

The Wood concept design Award recognizes outstanding products and services that utilize wood from the forests of Japan, one of the world's leading forested countries, and enrich life and society. This year, the fifth annual awards, 197 works were awarded the Wood concept design Award from among 413 entries, including one Grand Prize (Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Award), nine Excellence Prizes (Forestry Agency Commissioner's Award), 15 Encouragement Prizes (Chairperson's Award), and four Special Prizes (Wood Hospitality Award). (For more information, please visit the Wood concept design Award official website https://www.wooddesign.jp/.)

There will also be a special seminar, featuring lectures and discussions by the judges and winners of top awards, on the theme of new-age wood concept design that leads to new value creation.

 

Seminar title: Session 1 “Wooden and woody cities leading to new value creation”

Date: December 5, 2019 (Thursday) 13:40-14:35

Location: Tokyo Big Sight, West Hall 4, Seminar space in the Wood concept design Award 2019 booth

Capacity: 50 people (Please apply as soon as possible as the deadline will be closed as soon as the capacity is reached.)

[Application form] https://ws.formzu.net/fgen/S58266845/

*Seats are limited in the seminar, so there is a possibility that you will be standing. Please note.

 

Speakers (tentative):

・[Collective housing / Grand Prize] "Demonstration of technology to realize Japan's first mid-to-high-rise wooden hybrid building" Mitsubishi Estate Co., Ltd.

・[Office/Encouragement Award] Interesting Corporation KAYAC Company Building R&D Building/Bokura no Conference Building” Shelter Co., Ltd.

・[Cultural Facility/Special Award] Kanda Myojin Cultural Exchange Center EDOCCO (NOMURA Co., Ltd.)

・Echiyo Suzuki (Space Designer, Chairperson of the Japan Space concept design Association, Judge for the Wood concept design Award (Architecture Category))

 

Facilitator (tentative): Asako Nagano (Director, Wood Utilization Division, Forestry Agency)

 

See below for details

"Wood concept design Award 2019" official website

https://www.wooddesign.jp/

 

About the special seminar

http://www.green.or.jp/event/wood_design_2019_exhibition/

 

<Inquiries>

For any inquiries, please contact: Wood concept design Award Application Office

E-mail address for inquiries: info2019@wooddesign.jp

 

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~Related Links~

【news release】

Published on December 11, 2018 Kanda Myojin Cultural Exchange Center "EDOCCO" opens on December 15th. NOMURA Chief Planner Kenichi Sakazume is the general producer and designer Ryo Onishi is in charge of interiors design.

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