Dear SSJ-Friends,

We are pleased to invite you to the next GRIPS Forum at the National Graduate Institute for Policy
Studies on November 21.

*Please register at Registration Form by November 18 (Fri)17：00.
https://gpwreminder.grips.ac.jp/form/0002/133rd-grips-forum-on-21st-november

*If you can’t open the registration form, please send an email to gripsforum@grips.ac.jp with your
name, affiliation, job title, phone number or email address without changing the title.

*If you are arriving by a private car, please let us know the car information

(type, color, and number) in advance so that we can register it for campus entry permission.

＜We ask that you refrain from recording sound or video during this forum.

Thank you for your understanding and cooperation.＞

Date: Monday, 21 November, 2016
Time: 16:40-18:10

Venue: GRIPS　Sokairou Hall, 1st Floor

Speaker: Mr. Ryo Yamazaki, CEO of Studio-L, Director of Community Design at the Tohoku University of
Art and Design

Theme: What is Community Design?

Language: Japanese (English simultaneous interpretation provided)

This lecture discusses how to support community residents to solve their local problems.

Speakers’ Profile:

Born in Aichi, in 1973. After the university, he worked in SEN, inc., where he developed his skills
and knowledge in landscape design advised by Mr. Shosuke Miyake, a founder of this firm. As well, he
learnt social organization and relationship management from Dr. Fusayo Asano there.

He founded studio-L in 2005 and he has continuously offered the innovative solutions for the local
problems by inspiring and leading the local communities. He advocates the importance of “Community
Design” which he defined as the empowerment of the locals through design to make them happy. His
major projects contain planning workshops, making comprehensive plans and park management. In recent
years he has been involved with welfare and healthcare’s issues in Japan and helps designing care
system to support the elderly in neighbourhoods.

He has published some books including: Community Design (2011), Social Design Atlas(2012), The era
of Community Design(2012), Happiness theory for the local area(2012).

*** GRIPS Forum ***

Since its establishment in 1997, the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS), as the
only graduate school in Japan specializing in policy research, has promoted education and research
on a wide range of policy issues.

Utilizing our vast policy network, this Forum invites leaders from various fields including
government, academia and business, as well as staff from our own faculty, to deliver lectures on
current policy concerns.

The Forum welcomes attendance of GRIPS faculty and students as well as participants from outside the
university. Simultaneous interpretation will be available (Japanese/English).

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For registration and inquiries, please contact: Ms. Oshikawa
gripsforum@grips.ac.jp

http://www.grips.ac.jp/

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