A related symposium will be held at the Tokyo Midtown Design Hub before the “World Design Assembly Tokyo 2023” will be held in Japan in October for the first time in 34 years. This symposium examines the roles that the past two World Design Conferences “ICSID Congress” held in Japan in 1973 (Kyoto) and 1989 (Nagoya) and the “Design Year Movement”, which was developed around them, have played in the development of Japanese design. Looking back on the 1973 Congress, listening to the opinions of the designers and government officials who were in charge of the 1989 Design Conference and Design Year enlightenment activities, it examines the significance of the two ICSID Conferences and their Design Years from various angles, and introducing the overview of WDO World Design Assembly Tokyo 2023.
We are now at a crossroads where we have to rebuild design in a world that is different from what we have seen so far, after going through the COVID-19 pandemic and various other changes. Through the World Design Conferences of 1973 and 1989, which turned out to be turning points for the world, and the future that the designers aimed for in those congresses, it will consider the past and future of Japanese design.
The International Design Center NAGOYA Inc. participates as a panelist and introduces the 1989 Congress and its succession as a local government.

◼️Program (scheduled)
Opening remarks / Event purpose
・Shiro Aoki (Representative chairperson, International Forum for Design Research / Former: ’89 Design Year Promotion Office, Japan Institute of Design Promotion)
・Kazuo Tanaka (Executive Committee Chairperson, World Design Assembly Tokyo)

Overview of the two ICSID Design Conferences (1973 and 1989) and the Design Year Movement
・Koji Kuroda (Design Promotion Policy Archive Project / Professor Emeritus, Shizuoka University of Art and Culture)

Roundtable “1989 Milestone to Nagoya Design Conference”
– From designer to media, to city administration, and to spread beyond the region
・Kiyoharu Fujimoto (Chairperson, FORUM DOUGUOLOGY / Former: Executive Vice President, GK Design Group Inc.)
・Kazuo Moroboshi (Executive Committee Chairperson, ICSID ’89 Nagoya)
・Shinichi Yamamura (Chairperson, COBO DESIGN Co., Ltd.)
・Terukazu Nishino (President, International Design Center NAGOYA Inc. / Former: Director, Nagoya City Economic Affairs Bureau)

Dialogue “An era and design that sought internationalization”
– A bird’s-eye view of Design Conference and Design Year from a post-war historical perspective by administrative officers who were in charge of design administration at the Ministry of International Trade and Industry and working staff from the Japan Institute of Design Promotion.
・Shuji Miyazaki (Former: Inspection Design Administrative Office Manager, Ministry of International Trade and Industry / Adviser, Technology Utopia)
・Shiro Aoki

Opinion exchange “Issues that have been handed down to this day”
Closing / Networking party

*Capacity: 30 people at the venue, YouTube live streaming available
*Registration necessary