Our employees Goro Kato, Keisuke Yoshida, and Norio Koito will be on stage at "The Circular Economy Learned from the UK's Ellen MacArthur Foundation" (November 24th)

Our employees Goro Kato, Keisuke Yoshida, and Norio Koito will be on stage at the Circular Economy Hub series of online programs "Learning about the Circular Economy from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation in the UK" -Thinking with Pioneers in Each Industry- (sponsored by Circular Economy Hub). We are looking forward to your participation.

<Seminar overview>
Seminar Title: Circular Economy Hub Continuous Online Program "Circular Economy Learned from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation UK”
Organizer: Harch Co., Ltd. Circular Economy Hub Editorial Department
Location: Online (using the online meeting tool “Zoom”)
Cost: 3000 yen (pre-registration required)

Seminar overview:
The Ellen MacArthur Foundation*, a British circular economy promotion organization, operates the online learning program "From Linear to Circular" in which about 5,000 people from all over the world participated. With permission from the Foundation, this is a 7-part series of online programs that deliver the learnings gained in the program.
In addition to introducing the basics of the circular economy and trends in each industry, guests will introduce circular economy initiatives. While learning with the participants, we will think about the path to circular economy transition.

<Overview of our program>
Title: 7th “Architecture/Space Creation and Circular Economy/Summary of all 7”
Date: November 24, 2020 (Tuesday) 19:00-21:00
Location: Online

Speakers (planned):
・Kozue Nishizaki (Amsterdam resident, Circular Economy Hub editorial team)
・ NOMURA Co.,Ltd. Co., Ltd. Fairwood Project Project Leader, JAPAN VALUE Project Project Leader Goro Kato
・ NOMURA Co.,Ltd. Co., Ltd. NOMLAB concept design Engineer Keisuke Yoshida
・ NOMURA Co.,Ltd. Co., Ltd. Creative Division N.A.U. 1 Norio Koito

Program (contents subject to change without notice):
19:00 Opening (5 minutes)
19:05 Commentary by Circular Economy Hub members (30 minutes)
19:35 Activity introduction by 3 guest speakers (50 minutes)
20:30 Q&A/Panel discussion (30 minutes)
After the end Networking in breakout rooms

<How to apply/participate>
Apply to: Harch Co., Ltd. Circular Economy Hub Editorial Department
how to apply: Application form Please apply at

way to participate:
・Please connect using the online tool “Zoom” We will send the URL for entering the room to all applicants one hour before the start.
・The venue is scheduled for 18:45.
・If you are using Zoom for the first time, please access it before the start. The app will be downloaded to your PC or smartphone. Due to functional limitations, we recommend using a PC as much as possible.
・The microphone will be muted during lectures.
・On the day of the event, there will be some time for participants to interact with each other in the breakout room.
・Each report will be posted on the Circular Economy Hub at a later date. Photos taken during the program may be published. If you do not want to take photos, please participate with your camera off except during networking time.
・Please note that we cannot accept refunds for your application.
・Please refer to peatix for receipts.

 

 

<Speaker Profile>
・ NOMURA Co.,Ltd. Co., Ltd. Fairwood Project Project Leader, JAPAN VALUE Project Project Leader Goro Kato
Graduated from the Tokyo Institute of Technology Graduate School. He serves as Secretary General of NOMURA Co.,Ltd. 's CSV activity organization. He is involved in the ""Project"" which aims to contribute to the autonomous economic activity of the forestry industry and the protection and growth of Japan's forests by utilizing domestically produced fair wood (legal and sustainable wood) in spaces. Fairwood Project", which incorporates traditional techniques from all over the country into spaces and offers high-value-added space proposals. JAPAN VALUE Project He is also a member of the General Incorporated Association Wood Architecture Promotion Council (2018), organizes tours of wood-producing areas, speaks at seminars sponsored by the Ministry of the Environment, and contributes to them, aiming to create recycled wooden spaces that are imbued with the stories and creativity of wood.

・ NOMURA Co.,Ltd. Co., Ltd. NOMLAB concept design Engineer Keisuke Yoshida
Graduated from Toyohashi University of Technology Graduate School. He specializes in concept design that combine digital technology such as technology and programming with space, and has worked on projects on a variety of scales, including corporate museums, observation facilities, and artwork. In addition to being active as a designer specializing in digital technology spaces, he also works as the head of NOMURA Co.,Ltd. Group's innovation laboratory, NOMLAB" is also working with external creators to develop prototypes of new expressive devices that use interaction and control. In 2020, they will be launching " Next Generation Wooden Space ", a project that combines computational concept design with domestic timber. Geometric Timber” (SC Business Fair 2020 He was in charge of creative direction and spatial concept design for the exhibition.

・ NOMURA Co.,Ltd. Co., Ltd. Creative Division N.A.U. 1 Norio Koito
Graduated from the Department of Architecture at Meiji University. After working for a general contractor and an architectural firm, he joined NOMURA Co.,Ltd., where he handles a wide range concept design from interiors to architecture. In 2020, NOMURA Co.,Ltd. Co., Ltd. signed a comprehensive collaboration agreement with "Nazuna Obi Castle Town Hot Springs", an alley lined with traditional townhouses renovated into a lodging facility "Nazuna Kyoto Tsubaki Street He has been in charge of projects to utilize old houses from the Edo and Meiji periods, as well as historical buildings built before the Building Standards Act was enacted, including the "Amazing Buildings." He uses a wide range of methods, from large-scale repairs and renovations including earthquake-proofing to conversions, and is working to revitalize local areas through space creation.

<Related news release>
・ Accelerate the “Fairwood Project,” which utilizes domestically produced Fairwood (legal and sustainable wood) for space production

・ NOMURA Co.,Ltd. Group Social Activities Report: Fairwood Project "MOKU LOVE DESIGN - Wooden Space concept design Approach Book" Completion Ceremony

​NOMURA Co.,Ltd., Ltd. plans and produces a next-generation wooden space using computational concept design and domestic timber - the first displays of a sustainable space of the future

 

 

<Details/Inquiries>
Event official website: https://cehub.jp/news/seminar-emf-in-detail/
Inquiries: Harch Co., Ltd. Circular Economy Hub Editorial Department

 

Circular Economy Hub:
Circular Economy Hub is an online platform for promoting the circular economy operated by Harch Corporation. We support companies, organizations, and local governments that want to promote the circular economy through the latest information, cases, insights, events and workshops, experience programs, networking, and matching on the circular economy in Japan and overseas.

Ellen MacArthur Foundation:
A circular economy promotion organization established in 2010 by Dame Ellen MacArthur, who set the record for the shortest solo yacht circumnavigation of the world. Promote circular economy in cooperation with all sectors such as global companies, SMEs, national governments, local governments, educational institutions, and NPOs. Organized "CE100", an inter-company network for circular economy, "New Plastic Economy" aiming at circularization of plastics, "Make Fashion Circular" in the fashion field, etc., and promoted the transition to a circular economy with each industry. In addition, it conducts surveys and provides educational opportunities, and is known as an organization that leads the world's circular economy.

What is the circular economy:

Products and raw materials that were “discarded” without being utilized in the conventional linear economic system of “Take”, “Make”, and “Waste” etc. as a new "resource", and refers to an economic mechanism that circulates resources without producing waste. Please see here for details.

 

 

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