Online seminar exploring the collaboration between design and business on SDGs: “Translating SDGs Design to Business”

What can design do to promote the SDGs?

The Kyushu University Faculty of Design held an online seminar contemplating collaboration between design and business on SDGs titled “Translating SDGs Design to Business.”

We explored the new possibilities for collaboration between design and business on SDGs from various perspectives through high school and university collaboration on SDGs education, and real world examples of SDGs and food, clothing, and housing, etc.

Event Format
The event used the online meeting tool ZOOM.

Speakers
Fukusho High School           Senior Teacher  Masanori Teshima
Fukusho High School           Teacher  Kohei Yoshii
Fukusho High School           Teacher  Yasunobu Uchida
Fukuoka Asian Urban Research Center             Chief Researcher  Ikuyo Kikusawa
University of Kitakyushu Department of Economics     Professor  Yoshiaki Ushifusa
Kyushu University Faculty of Design                Professor Yasuyuki  Hirai
Kyushu University Faculty of Design                Lecturer  Yanfang Zhang
Kyushu University Faculty of Design                Assistant Professor  Wei Leong, Loh

Program
18:30-18:50 “SDGs Design Education from the Perspective of Design and Business Collaboration”
Kyushu University Faculty of Design
Yanfang Zhang, Wei Leong Loh

18:50-19:10 “Fukusho High School: The Challenges of Translating SDGs Education to Implementation in Society”
Fukusho High School
Masanori Teshima, Kohei Yoshii, Yasunobu Uchida

19:10-19:20 “Design Education to Improve the Innovation Abilities Required by Future Society (Business)”
Fukuoka Asian Urban Research Center
Ikuyo Kikusawa

19:20-19:25 “SDGS and New Food, Clothing, and Housing”
Kyushu University Faculty of Design
Yasuyuki Hirai

19:25-19:35 “SDGs School and Business Collaboration”
University of Kitakyushu Department of Economics
Yoshiaki Ushifusa

19:35-20:00 Discussion (Moderator: Yanfang Zhang)

Organizer
Kyushu University Faculty of Design

Coorganizer
Kyushu University Business School (QBS)
Kyushu University Robert T. Huang Entrepreneurship Center (QREC)