March 1, 2011
Beginning in 2003, we began holding design seminars and workshops as educational programs with an eye to human resource development through design as well as promoting an understanding of design within the citizenry. Over the past few years, there has been a growing interest in design for the protection and nurturing of children as well as design that opens up a bright future. Therefore, the main project of 2010-2011 was a continuation of the previous year’s program, in which we held parent/child workshops and exhibitions on the theme of design for kids. Through this year’s project, our purpose was to assist, through the power of design, with human resource development to support the future, namely by broadening people’s understanding of what design can do and the possibilities of design undertaken in the making of things and the design of the child’s environment.
NAGOYA Kids Design Exhibition
In the NAGOYA Kids Design Exhibition, design plans, prototypes and examples of items designed to appeal to children, including children’s furniture, playground equipment, educational toys and space design were exhibited as products, prototypes and panels by the members of 11 of the groups that make up the Council of Chubu Design Organizations as well as corporate members and educational institutions related to the membership.
Period: Wednesday, February 23 – Monday, February 28, 2011
Venue: Design Gallery, International Design Center NAGOYA
Family Design Workshop
On the Sunday during NAGOYA Kids Design 2011, we held family workshops led by graphic designers and illustrators. These creators, members of the Council of Chubu Design Organizations, attracted far more than the capacity of the three courses they planned–with the theme of what design can do–during which they used their skills to attune participants to the appeal of design, whether through the construction of objects based on design or through the use of their own hands in making something of their own design.
1. Let’s Make Kaleidoscopes
2. Let’s Make Clocks as Tall as we are
3. Let’s Make Snow Globes out of Plastic Bottles
Time: Sunday, February 27, 2011, 10:00 am – 6:00 pm
Venue: Design Workshop, International Design Center NAGOYA
| Date: | Wednesday, 23 – Monday, 28 February, 2011 |
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| Venue: | Design Gallery, International Design Center NAGOYA |
| Organizer: | Creative Design City Nagoya Organizing Committee [City of Nagoya, International Design Center Nagoya Inc., Nagoya Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Council of Chubu Design Organizations] |
| Co-organizer, etc. : | Supporter: Nonprofit Organization Kids Design Association |
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