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 (tentative):
・Kozue Nishizaki (Amsterdam resident, Circular Economy Hub editorial staff)
・ NOMURA Co., Ltd. Fairwood Project Project Leader, JAPAN VALUE Project Project Leader Goro Kato
・ NOMURA, Ltd. NOMLAB concept design Engineer Keisuke Yoshida
・ NOMURA Co., Ltd. Creative Department 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. Fairwood Project Project Leader, JAPAN VALUE Project Project Leader Goro Kato
Graduated from the Tokyo Institute of Technology Graduate School. Serving as Secretary General of NOMURA, Ltd.'s CSV Activity Organization. "Fairwood Project", which incorporates traditional techniques from around 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 production areas, and speaks at and contributes to seminars sponsored by the Ministry of the Environment. His goal is to create recycled wooden spaces that are full of wood stories and creativity.

・ NOMURA, Ltd. NOMLAB concept design Engineer Keisuke Yoshida
Graduated from Toyohashi University of Technology Graduate School. Specializing in concept design that combines digital technology such as technology and programming with space, he 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 director of NOMURA Group's innovation laboratory, NOMLAB" is also working with external concept design to develop prototypes of new expressive devices that use interaction and control. In 2020, the company will launch "Geometric Timber” (SC Business Fair 2020 He was in charge of creative direction and spatial concept design for the event.

・ NOMURA Co., Ltd. Creative Department N.A.U. 1 Norio Koito
Graduated from the Department of Architecture at Meiji University. After working at a general contractor and an architectural firm, he joined NOMURA where he is involved in a wide range concept design from interiors to architecture. In 2020, NOMURA signed a comprehensive collaboration agreement with "Nazuna Obi Castle Town Hot Springs", an alley lined with 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, historical buildings built before the Building Standards Act was enacted, and other projects. He uses a wide range of methods, from large-scale repairs and renovations, including earthquake-resistance improvements, to conversions, and is working to revitalize the local area through space creation.

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

・ NOMURA Group Social Activities Report: Fairwood Project "MOKU LOVE DESIGN ~Wooden Space concept design Approach Book~" Completion Ceremony

・ NOMURA, Ltd. plans and produces next-generation wooden space using computational concept design and domestic materials ~First displays of future sustainable space~

 

 

<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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