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Founding Purposes As we approach the close of this century and the beginning of the next, we find broad-ranging changes taking place in a wide variety of fields including those of culture, sociology, and economics. In spite of the brilliant development that the industrial society is aiming toward for the twentieth century, and even due to sudden development in some areas, we are faced today with a large number of gigantic design problems including those of the environment and natural disasters. The Japan Institute of Design was founded for the purpose of responding to the demands of the times in terms of reorganization of the organizational structure in order to deal more effectively with such problems of the times in a search for more truly desirable, rich, and beautiful things for the enhancement of human daily life and to create a more vivid life culture for the future. The Japan Institute of Design is an organization that strives to achieve interdisciplinary solidarity among such fields as technology, sociology, the humanities, and the natural sciences with design as their common denominator, in both Japan and on the international scene. Through both deepening and clarifying the various specialized fields, while at the same time working toward a synthesization of those specialized fields that have become too fragmented, this organization works toward effective dealing with the larger problems that cannot be solved by these individual specialized fields on their own. The Japan Institute of Design was thus founded to serve as an active mother body for finding creative solutions to a broad range of projects, for providing proposals on policy for approaching the various problems, and for promotion of development of cultural projects. Activity Aims  Contribution to the formulation of a truly rich life culture for both Japan and the entire world through carrying out of discussions that traverse the boarders of both the various fields of design and of other areas of speciality to make proposals and take action toward the solution of today's problems.
Development of organized activities with the actual power derived from active linkage with industry, government, and citizens' groups.
Active dealing with problems that require international and interdisciplinary collaboration including the global environment, history and culture, natural disasters, and developing countries.
Efforts toward the structuring and the dissemination of design concepts appropriate to the demands of the times.
Efforts toward the development of design promotion and design education for the general public for the formulation of a new design culture.
And through efforts in these directions, the Japan Institute of Design strives to develop a vision of a rich civilization, hand in hand with the people of both today and tomorrow.
Outline of Programs 1. Research Program Proposals are drawn up for sustained research activities and appropriate program nuclei, through free mutual and cooperative discussion among the various fields of design involved in high urgency social projects. Research Subjects The global environment; history and culture; natural disaster countermeasures; qualitative enhancement of the housing environment;fresh reorganization of the traffic and communication systems; Dealing with the aged and the socially impaired; design education for thenurturing of personnel for future generations; utilization and preservationof intellectual property rights and design resources. Activity Morphology Salons; symposia and seminars; workshops; counselling services; research (self-initiated and commissioned); etc. 2. Honor Programs Honoring the results of research and other activities that make remarkable contributions in line with the cultural significance of design, as well as the drawing up of standards for evaluation of such activities and the dissemination of those standards. 3. International Exchange< Promotion of personnel exchange among related groups in all countries of the world; of planning and carrying out of information exchange projects in all countries of the world; and of exchange through linkage and cooperation in design activities in all countries of the world. 4. Public Information Programs Publishing of members journals; provision of information to all media; carrying out of plans for all types of publications; and dispatching of design information through international networks. Organization and Administration 1. Board of Directors: an organ that is responsible for carrying out of the programs Chairman : organ representativeDirectors : office work and financial investigationCouncilors : question the board of directorsAdvisors : specialized advice
2. Secretariat: general administration
3. Project: promotion of individual programs Membership ( fees ) Individual membership entrance fee 3,000 yen annual membership fee 30,000 yen Organization membership entrance fee 50,000 yen annual membership fee 500,000 yen  Board Chairperson Kenji Ekuan Industrial Designer Director General Seiichi Mizuno Social Marketer Director Osamu Ishiyama Architect, Prof. Waseda Univ. Tomoko Inukai Critic Eiko Ohya Journalist Atsuko Kamoshida Industrial Designer, Exective Director, The Kyoyo-Hin Foundation Kiyonori Kikutake Architect Haruto Kobayashi Landscape Architect Yukio Sakoda Industrial Designer, Prof. Shizuoka Univ. of Art and Culture Noriji Sato Prof. Ritsumeikan Univ. Environmental Design Institute. Hiroshi Sano Creative Director Masakzu Taniguchi Marketing Consultant Kuniaki Tamura CHUGOKU HAKUHODO Inc. Keiko Torigoe Soundscape Designer, Prof. Univ. of the Sacred Heart Kiyoharu Fujimoto GK Design Group Inc. Inspector Kunio Sano Industrial Designer Akira Tamura Urban Planner Managing Director & Secretary General Masato Isaka Advisor Hiroshi Ueki Former Commissioner for Cultural Affairs , Director, POLA ART FOUNDATION Shinji Fukukawa Chairman and Chief Executive Officer , Dentsu Institute for Human Studies Shuichirou Yamanouchi President, National Space Development Agency of Japan Hiroyuki Yoshikawa President, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology Andrea Branzi Industrial Designer Jocelyn de Noblet Design Critic Kenneth Grange Industrial Designer Ezio Manzini Industrial Designer Alexander Manu Industrial Designer Earl Powell President , The Design Management Institute Peter Lawrence< Chairman , Corporate Design Foundation Paul Hogan European Institute for Design and Disablity Chairman of Tokyo Creative Commitee | |
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