"Thinking about Design x Business x Intellectual Property" Online Seminar Vol.2

The Faculty of Design, Kyushu University, was pleased to announce the “Thinking about Design x Business x Intellectual Property” online seminar vol. 2.

How are design and business connected? What role does intellectual property play in this? By comprehensively grasping design, business, and intellectual property, the reality of business using design will become clear. In this seminar, we will invite Mr. Seiji Nakaji to talk about the current status of the protection of spatial design from the perspective of corporate legal affairs. Mr. Nakaji was currently active in Kitamura Holdings, Inc., which operates businesses such as “Camera no Kitamura” and “Damaruma Print,” utilizing his experience in corporate legal affairs gained through his activities to protect store designs in the Culture Convenience Club Group, which planned “Daikanyama Tsutaya Books” and “Takeo City Library.”

The Faculty of Design, Kyushu University, plans to reorganize its graduate school in 2022. One of the main features of the reorganization is the realization of a business-integrated design education program that cuts across design, business, and entrepreneurship. The Strategic Design Course in the Department of Design, which leads this movement, aims to develop human resources just like Mr. Nakaji.

[Speakers]
Seiji Nakaji (Kitamura Holdings Co., Ltd.)
Group Manager, Legal Group, Corporate Administration Department, Kitamura Holdings Co.
Born on January 2, 1979, Mr. Nakaji joined the Culture Convenience Club Co. He has been in his current position since April 2021, having served as the legal practice manager in charge of the Group’s China business, new businesses, store business, and content business. He has been a board member of the Design and Law Association since June 2021. He was selected as No. 7 in the “10 Greatest Architects of 2021” by Nikkei Architecture of Nikkei Business Publications, Inc. for his contribution to the revision of the Design Law to be enforced in April 2020.

Tsukasa Aso (Moderator, Associate Professor, Faculty of Design, Kyushu University)

[Program]
18:30 – 18:35 Greeting from the organizer and others (Tsukasa Aso, Associate Professor, Faculty of Design, Kyushu University)
18:35 – 18:45 Introduction of Strategic Design Course (Professor Yasuyuki Hirai, Faculty of Design, Kyushu University)
The introduction of the Strategic Design Course is the same as that of the online seminar “Thinking about Design x Business x Intellectual Property” held on July 15. Please excuse the duplication of content.
18:45 – 19:35 Keynote Speech (Seiji Nakaji, Kitamura Holdings Co., Ltd.)
19:35 – 20:00 Question and answer session
Please note that the program is subject to change.

[How to hold]
The online conference tool “ZOOM” was used.

[Application Procedure and Deadline]
Application form on Google.
Application deadline: September 12 (Sunday), noon
If there are multiple participants from your organization, please apply for each of them.

[Organizer]
Faculty of Design, Kyushu University

[Co-organizer]
Kyushu University Business School (QBS)
Robert T.Huang Entrepreneurship Center of Kyushu University (QREC)