Period:

Oct. 19 ~ 20, 2009

Venue:

Somerset Palace Seoul (Korea)

Agenda:

• Framework Potentials
• Potentials and robustness test based on the indicators for the Asia Design Survey
• Create new knowledge of design and its dynamics
• Comparison of design status per each region of the participants and acquire greater understanding of the uniqueness and characteristics of each region

Participants:

• Russell J. Kennedy(President of Icograda, Victoria, Australia)
• Prof. Don Ryun Chang(Past Presidnet of Icograda, Seoul, Korea)
• Brenda Sanderson(Managing Director of Icograda, Montreal, Canada)
• Prof. Ken Nah(Director General of WDCS 2010, Seoul, Korea)
• Day-young Yoon(Director of Seoul Design Foundation, Seoul, Korea)
• Prof. Soonin Lee(President of Seoul Design Center, Seoul, Korea)
• Leimei Julia Chiu(Executive Director of JIDP, Tokyo, Japan)
• Song Weizu(Vice President of Beijing Industrial Design Center, Beijing, China)
• Tony K.M. Chang(CEO of Taiwan Design Center, Taipe, Taiwan)
• Amy Chow(Managing director of HongKong Design Centre, Hongkong)
• Prof. Uday A Athavankar(Industrial Design Centre, Indian Institute of Technology , Mumbai, India)
• Tapani Hyvnen(CEO of Ed-design ltd., Helsinki, Finland)
• Vina Chang(Assistant of Taiwan Design Center, Taipei, Taiwan)
• MengMeng Yang(Interpreter, Beijing, China)
• Cheung woo Park(Team Manager of Seoul Design Center, Seoul, Korea)
• JaeKyoung Lee(Researcher of Seoul Design Center, Seoul, Korea)
• Sewon Ahn(Researcher of Seoul Design Center, Seoul, Korea)

Outcome:

• Asia Design Survey participating nations and cities agreed to conduct individual research on the 20 index categories and pursue under common time line
• Agreed to hold discussion to establish a definition of design and its concept as well as design classifications (including categories)