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Aichi/Nagoya Arts & Design Tour Report

December 10, 2012

Aichi/Nagoya Arts & Design Tour Report

Aichi/Nagoya Arts & Design Tour is a tour designed to help participants rediscover the allure of Nagoya. Participants visited the city with expert interpreters focusing on art and design.
The Creative Design City Nagoya Organizing Committee supported the planning of half of the project’s nine tours.

■ Museum Art Tour

Ahead of Aichi Triennale 2013, participants appreciated the Noe Aoki Exhibition (mounted jointly by the Nagoya City Art Museum and Toyota Municipal Museum of Art) interpreted by the curators of the Noe Aoki exhibition.

Date: Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Interpreters: Minako Tsunoda (curator, Nagoya City Art Museum), Masao Kitatani (curator, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art)
Participants: 24
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■ Campus Art Tour

Participants appreciated the less-than-commonly viewed art, design and architectural works exhibited in university venues, such as architecture designed by Junzo Yoshimura at the Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music and work exhibited in Nagoya University’s Toyota Auditorium, Noyori Materials Science Laboratory, Noyori Conference Hall and Institute of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

Date: Thursday, November 22, 2012
Interpreters: Kiyofumi Motoyama (associate professor, graduate school of Nagoya University), Isao Suizu (associate professor, Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music)
Participants: 33
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■ Creative Tour in Choja-machi

Participants strolled around Choja-machi, one of the main venues of Aichi Triennale 2010. They visited Art Lab Aichi, art spaces in this district, shared studios in the Yebisu Building and TRANSIT BUILDING, and, at the end of the tour, checked out creators shop Loop in NADYA PARK.

Date: Saturday, November 17, 2012
Interpreters: Yuri Yoshida (assistant curator, Aichi Triennale), Isamu Muto (N-mark Transit Program manager)
Participants: 14
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■ Exploratory Tour in the forest of Art & Science

With curators’ guidance, participants visited Shirakawa Park, Nagoya City Art Museum and Nagoya City Science Museum. They also appreciated examples of public art in Shirakawa Park with interpretation by an active local sculptor.

Date: Saturday, November 24, 2012
Interpreters: curators from Nagoya City Art Museum and Nagoya City Science Museum and sculptor Satoru Shoji
Participants: 8
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Date:Thursday, 4 November - Saturday, 8 December, 2012 (9 tours)

Planning:
NAGOYA CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU

Co-operation:
Creative Design City Nagoya Organizing Committee; International Design Center NAGOYA, Inc.; Design Glove Organizing Committee

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