Outline

Opening Ceremony / Open Symposium: Friday 9 December 2016

Plenary Session, Concurrent Sub-sessions, Exhibition, etc: Friday 9 to Sunday 11 December 2016

Expected number of participants: 5,000 on opening day, 15,000 in total

Expected number of participating countries and regions: (approx. 30)

NAGOYA CONGRESS CENTER

International Association for Universal Design (IAUD)

Aichi Prefecture, Nagoya City

Institute for Human Centered Design(U.S.A.), Helen Hamlyn Centre Royal College of Art (U.K.), Design for All Foundation (Spain), UNIVERSAL DESIGN & SERVICE GmbH, Council of Chubu Design Organizations, Aichi University of the Arts, NAGOYA CITY UNIVERSITY, Nagoya University of Arts and Sciences, Nagoya University of Arts, Nagoya Congress Center

NEC Corporation, Sekisui House, Ltd., Okamura Corporation, KOKUYO Co., Ltd. , Toyota Motor Corporation, Toyota Boshoku Corporation, Fujitsu Limited, Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Ricoh Co, Ltd., Konica Minolta, Inc., Central Japan Railway Company, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., Panasonic Corporation, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

SEKISUI CHEMICAL CO., LTD., AISIN SEIKI Co.,Ltd., DAIHATSU MOTOR CO.,LTD., TOYOTA HOUSING CORPORATION

Creating Shared Value through Universal Design

Sub Themes

1. Universal Design in tourism
   Prime Mister Abe announced his government’s intention to double the number of overseas visitors to 20 million by the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games. UD views are essential in creating mechanisms that will also actively attract to the Chubu area overseas tourists gathering in Tokyo.


2. Universal Design in industrial development
   It can be said that UD concepts in Japan have penetrated industry in a general way, particularly in major corporations. To further broaden the penetration of UD thinking in industries, we will approach small and medium-sized businesses as well as universities and other non-profit organizations and we will make efforts to further promote and deploy UD in new concentrations of industrial clusters in the Chubu area.


3. Universal Design for Emergency
   We will reexamine responses to emergency situations from a UD viewpoint in areas such as an envisaged Nankai/Higashi Nankai earthquake and other natural disasters, terrorist threats to infrastructure and urban life functions, and other incidents and accidents including fire and power outages.

1. Open Symposium
   [December 9]
   The symposium will include commemorative lectures and keynote lectures by overseas guest speakers as well as panel discussions by guest speakers from Japan.


2. Exhibition
   [December 9-11]
   Out of a total of 160 booths, about two-thirds will be allocated to exhibitions for companies and organizations in Japan. We will also allocate display stands for overseas organizations and local organizations to present details of their activities.


3. Open seminar/workshop
   [December 9-11]
   As open lectures for the people of Aichi Prefecture, we will plan and implement programs the general public will feel at home participating in.


4. 48 Hours Design Marathon
   [Announced on December 9]
   This event was held in Tokyo. Most of the participants were from the small-to-medium sized enterprises, and their results will be presented on site of The 6th International Conference for Universal Design in Nagoya 2016. The prototypes of their products will be exhibited there.


5. IAUD Award 2016
   [Announcement on December 9]
   After inviting entries and judging them beforehand, we will announce the results of IAUD Award 2016 as one of the highlights of the international conference and present awards at the venue of the international conference.


6. Sessions for presenting papers
   [December 10-11, 2016]
   After make a call for papers and strictly screening them beforehand, we will organize sessions for presenting papers according to theme and genre. Commendations will be presented for the most outstanding papers on the final day.