Our spatial designers, Keichiyo 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 concept design Onishi, concept design director of the Kanda Myojin Cultural Exchange Center "EDOCCO," which received a special award for its cultural facility, will be speaking at the "Wood concept design Award 2019" Special Seminar (organized by the Wood Design Award Management Office). The seminar will be moderated by Asako Nagano, Director of the Wood Utilization Division, Forestry Agency. We look forward to your participation.

 

<Seminar overview>

"Wood concept design Award 2019" Special Seminar

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

The Wood concept design Award recognizes outstanding products and services that enrich lives and society by utilizing wood sourced from Japan's forests, one of the world's leading forest nations. In its fifth year, this year's awards saw 197 entries selected from 413 submissions, with one Grand Prize winner (Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and concept design Award), nine Excellence Award winners (Director-General of the Forestry Agency Award), fifteen Encouragement Award winners (Chairman of the Jury), and four Special Award winners (Wood Hospitality Award). (For details, please visit the official Wood concept design Award website: https://www.wooddesign.jp/)

A special seminar will also be held, featuring lectures and discussions by judges and winners of top awards, focusing on the theme of "wood concept design" for a new era that leads to the creation of new value.

 

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

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

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

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. Co., Ltd.)

- Echiyo Suzuki (Space designer, President of the Japan Spatial concept design Association, Wood concept design Award judge (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 all inquiries, please contact: Wood concept design Award Application Office

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

 

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【news release】

Published December 11, 2018. Opening December 15. Kanda Myojin Cultural Exchange Center "EDOCCO" is being comprehensively produced by Kenichi Sakazume, Chief Planner NOMURA Co.,Ltd., with interiors design by Ryo Onishi.

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