Design Museums in Japan: Present and Future
The practice of design not only forms our visual sphere and material world, but also provides us with a medium for living our daily lives and constructing social and cultural identities. This symposium concentrated on issues of collection and exhibition of design as cultural medium, and reviewed historical and current examples of design museum practices. The symposium also provided a springboard for rich discussion from a variety of viewpoints and experiences into the form that design museums should take in Japan in the new century.
2 July 2005, at 12.30-16.00
International Design Center, Nagoya
Co-organised by Project Studies for the Promotion of Human and Social Science, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Sponsored by International Design Center, Nagoya
Supported by Society for Cultural Studies in Body, Design, Media, Music and Text, Kobe University
Programme
Part 1: Keynote Speech
Kimura Kazuo (Professor and Dean at Nagoya University of Arts and Sciences)
Part 2: Research Reports
Hashimoto Keiko (Independent Curator and Researcher)
Kim Sang-Kyu (Curator, Hangaram Design Museum, Seoul Arts Center, Korea)
Part 3: Panel Discussion
Panelists : Kimura Kazuo, Hashimoto Keiko, Kim Sang-Kyu
Coordinator : Iguchi Toshino (Associate Professor at Saitama University, Deputy-Chair of the Design History Workshop Japan)