Design for the World '99 Tokyo Symposium REPORT
Message
Andre Ricard
Some years ago Kenji Ekuan had a dream; to see all design disciplines joining their creative skill to be able to take an active role in humanitarian tasks. Design can no longer be only considered as the creative tool for opulent societies. Its proved capacity in finding helpful solutions to practical questions has to be at the service of those major problem of the world for which design is particularly prepared to work for. Environment, education,health-care and generally all those other aspects with the well-being of people are fields in which design has to bring his powerful resource of creative expertise.
From the beginning, many of us belived in this dream and wished to contribute in making it possible. The main international design organizations fully support the idea and have been the founding member of Design for the World. The design world has now a tool through which a fruitful collaboration to problems related with the well-being of people can be given. Precisely in problems where the creative expertise of design could be an indispensable help.
Design for the World offers a friendly hand to assist people in need. it is now on the side of the private and public spherea to take into account this generous offer allowing our assosiation both humanittarian tasks to fulfill as well as means it needs to do so.
I wish a great success to this Tokio meeting I was unfortunately unable to attend.
Andre Ricard: President of DW / Spain
Founder of Spanish Design Society, former Vice President of ICSID, Presently President of Spanish Association of Industrial Designers, Vice President of Barcelona Design Center and Member of Barcelona Economical Promotion Council.
Reception / Board Members of DW
Boad Reception / Symbol object of DW
Boad Meeting of DW
Boad Visit to the Japan Federation of Economic Organization
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