[ecodesign] Call for Participation: EcoDesign 2005

[Yasushi Umeda]

Call for Participants
EcoDesign 2005
4th International Symposium on Environmentally Conscious Design
and Inverse Manufacturing
December 12-14, 2005
Tokyo Japan

The latest information is now available:
http://www.ecodenet.com/ed2005
Deadline of Symposium Registration: November 16, 2005

We are delighted to announce that the "EcoDesign 2005: Forth 
International Symposium on Environmentally Conscious Design and 
Inverse Manufacturing" will be held on December 12-14, 2005 in Tokyo, 
Japan. This symposium is organized by the Union of EcoDesigners, 
Japan, under the unified subtitle "Going Green" that is commonly used 
among IEEE International Symposium on Electronics and the 
Environment, CARE/Electronics Goes Green, and EcoDesign. The third 
symposium EcoDesign 2003 gathered over 300 participants and about 180 
presentations from Europe, U.S.A., and Asia.
The aim of EcoDesign is to construct sustainable societies by 
developing and deploying various environmentally conscious 
businesses, services, and products. While the movement of EcoDesign 
is successfully promoted by various legislative activities in many 
countries, innovative environmentally conscious businesses have not 
achieved majority yet, including, for instance, product & service 
system and servicization. In order to step forward, EcoDesign 2005 
includes a variety of topics such as environmentally conscious 
design, enabling technologies, business, social system, 
infrastructure and life cycle management.
   Especially, the 4th symposium focuses on two special themes; 
EcoDesign of social system and EcoDesign in Asia. The former reflects 
our recognition that the global environmental issues are getting 
worse although our EcoDesign activities. Therefore, we need 
integration of various EcoDesign actions into design of sustainable 
social system, in addition to individual EcoDesign activities. The 
latter, EcoDesign in Asia, comes from the fact that rapid 
industrialization, growing markets, and fast increasing living 
standards in Asia are becoming a pivot for the global sustainability 
and therefore one of the main concern of EcoDesign.

Program Overview
December 12
Opening
Plenary Lecture: Vision 2050 and the Role of Japan toward the 
Sustainable Society
Prof. Hiroshi Komiyama (President, the University of Tokyo, Japan)
Topics of regular sessions:
Sustainable Society and Business, Consumer Modeling, Ecodesign 
Education, Eco-SCM, Eco-Product and Eco-Material in Asia, 
Biomass-Material, Eco-Material, Waste and Disposal, Design for 
Disassembly, System Design for Remanufacturing, Modular Design, 
Eco-Product, Tool/Method for DfE, Renewable Energy and New Energy 
Technology, Recycling System/Technology

December 13
Plenary Session: EcoDesign in Asia
(Prof. Ryoichi Yamamoto (the University of Tokyo, Japan), Dr. Xia 
Guang (State Environmental Protection Administration, China), Dr. 
Narito Shibaike (Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd, Japan), Mr. 
Chen, Panfeng (Huawei Tech Co. Ltd., China))
Topics of regular sessions:
Eco-SCM, Life Cycle Design, Service Engineering, LCA for EcoDesign, 
Remanufacturing, Energy Conservation, Environmental Load Reduction in 
Asia, Design for Environment in Asia, Recycling in Asia, Soldering 
Technology

December 14
Plenary Session: International Standardization of EcoDesign
(Dr. Yoshiaki Ichikawa (Hitachi Ltd., Japan), Mr. Kouichi Shioda 
(METI, Japan), Mr. Andrea Legnani (Italian Federation of 
Electrotechnical and Electronic Industries, EU)
Topics of regular sessions:
Life Cycle Scenario, Life Cycle Simulation/Lifetime Estimation, End 
of Life Product, Tool/Method for DfE, EcoDesign Tool, Life Cycle Cost 
and Management, Soldering Technology, Ecological Footprint,
Eco-Efficiency/EcoDesign Impact, Recycling in Asia, Legislation for EcoDesign

December 15
Technical Tour (Hyper Cycle Co. Ltd. And EcoProducts 2005 Exibition)

Symposium Organizer
Union of EcoDesigners
(Association of EcoDesign Societies, Japan)
EcoDesign 2005 Secretariat
NPO EcoDesign Promotion Network
E-mail:ecodesign2005@ecodenet.com
In Cooperation With
IEEE CS TCEE, USA
CARE Electronics, Europe

Supported by
Ministry of the Environment, Japan
Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, Japan
Ministry of Land Infrastructure and Transport, Japan
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan


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Yasushi Umeda (umeda@mech.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp)
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Professor
Design and Integration Division (DSI), Dept. of Mechanical Eng.,
Graduate School of Eng., Osaka University
Yamada-oka 2-1, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
tel/fax: +81-6-6879-7260
http://www-lce.mech.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp/
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