参赛邀请函

　　Awards Invitation

　　欢迎参加：

　　APDC 2012/2013 可持续前瞻设计大赛

　　Welcome to:

　　APDC Visionary Sustainable Design Awards 2012/2013

　　APDC AWARDS 2011在无锡取得成功并圆满落幕。没有亲身参与组织这类赛事的人很难想象一个年轻的组织需要持续付出多大的艰辛，才能使得这样一场有意义的赛事完善地得以实现。

　　The Asia Pacific Design Awards 2011 ended in Wuxi on a very encouraging and triumphant note. It could be difficult for those who have never been involved in the organization of such an event to imagine the continuous struggle that organizers must get through to produce a meaningful and well organized event.

　　在此，感谢为这次大赛成功付诸努力和予以协助的无锡市人民政府、大赛评委、颁奖嘉宾、赞助商, 各大媒体和APDC亚太设计中心的全体工作人员们。

　　Thank you for all those who have contributed to its success as jury members, speakers, sponsors, the Government of Wuxi, the Press and Medias and all the APDC team members.

　　同时，也要恭喜所有大赛获奖设计师,并在此鼓励所有参赛设计师们为了下一届的赛事继续努力, 龙年可能将是你们收获的一年。

　　We would like again, to congratulate all the winners and to encourage all participants to keep on fighting for the next awards; the black dragon year could be your winning award year!

　　时不我待，APDC亚太设计中心团队已经开始着手准备2012/2013的赛事，大赛将更具包容性，涉及的设计类别将会更广。在可持续的大前提下，加入产品设计。

　　Without losing time, your APDC team is already at work to organize an event larger and more inclusive for 2012/2013. The event will be more comprehensive since the APDC Design Awards will also include Product Design under, still, a sustainable umbrella.

　　室内设计和产品设计有着密不可分的内在联系。工业设计师们创造产品，室内设计师将产品运用到他们的设计项目中。产品设计师们设计的产品越环保越可持续，运用产品的设计项目将会更加的环保和可持续。

　　Interior Design and Product Design are profoundly interconnected disciplines. Industrial designers create products that Interior Designers use in their projects. The more sustainable is the product designed by the product designer the more sustainable will be the interior design project.

　　2012/2013 APDC 可持续前瞻设计大赛将推广更具商业价值，对人类乃至整个地球更有益的产品和室内设计项目。

　　The “APDC Visionary Sustainable Design Awards 2012/2013” will be promoting interior design or products design projects that are more profitable for business, people and the planet.

　　我们所邀请投稿的产品和设计项目，可以有不同的创意和设计，但必须拥有可持续的效果。评审们将特别注重项目在材料使用，制造过程，包装及运输，使用和处理乃至循环使用过程中对环境带来的负面影响。

　　We invite people to present products and projects that, despite their different requirements, have adopted strategies to ensure that they have the desired sustainable effect. The jury will be particularly sensitive to projects designed with little or no negative impact on the environment in material production, manufacturing processes, packaging and transportation, use and disposal or even its second scheduled life. This will also go along the line for products being used by interior designers in their projects.

　　今天，可持续性是以对环境的影响，所带来的经济效益和社会的适应性为衡量标准。

　　Today, sustainability is measured according to their impacts on the environment, their financial achievement and their social suitability.

　　要做到达到“基本标准”成功的可持续不是一项简单的工作，我们现在所说的三重标准线已经不仅仅停留在它所带来的利润上，还要评估社会和环境方面的“损益”。

　　Being sustainable is not an easy business when its success is measured on the “Bottom Line”; now we are talking about a triple bottom line where not only the profit is measured in terms of “money” but where the social and environmental issues are evaluated in terms of “profit and lost”

　　v 环境可持续性

　　v 社会可持续性

　　v 经济可持续性

　　v Environmental Sustainability

　　v Social Sustainability

　　v Financial Sustainability

　　所以可持续要求设计师们不要忽略以上三点中的任何一个。很快这三点将会成为对设计师们专业的“考试”。

　　Sustainability therefore requires designers not to lose out in any of the 3 main subdivisions. Soon these three “exams” will professionally qualify you.

　　由于可持续在很多发展中国家的还处于初期阶段，评委将以宽容的态度接纳并没有全部达到三项标准的作品。

　　Since sustainability is in an early age in many developing countries, the jury members will be given the latitude to determine if a products meeting only two of the basic subdivisions can be considered.

　　材料本身并不能可持续。

　　Materials alone do not make something sustainable.

　　很多产品是用一些被认为不环保的材料制造而成。例如塑料，如果有办法解决塑料的环保问题，那么这些产品也可以是可持续的。这将对社会的发展或改善全球人民生活起到至关重要的作用。可持续可采取多种途径在当地推广实施并带来很多益处。

　　Many products made of material recognized as non-eco-friendly like plastic can be considered sustainable if they have the ability to solve life-threatening problems, be essential to some communities’ development or improve the lives of people around the globe. Being sustainable can take many avenues for a multitude of extremely good reasons when expressed locally.

　　不再赘言，亚太设计中心很高兴能够宣布和推出2012/2013 APDC可持续前瞻设计大赛。2011年赛事让我们对不断变化的世界设计环境加深了解，现在，我们希望继续沿着这条路为我们所有的设计同仁和客户谋福利。

　　Enough rhetoric, APDC is happy to announce the launch of the APDC Visionary Sustainable Design Awards 2012/2013. The 2011 edition of the Awards taught us a lot about our world changing design environment and we wish to continue along this line for the benefit of all our design colleagues and clients.

　　Claude Bérubé (郭儒贝)

　　亚太设计中心/亚太室内设计师联盟 主席

　　President of Asia Pacific Design Centre/ Asia Pacific Federation of Interior Designers

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　　历任 IFI国际室内建筑师设计师团体联盟主席

　　历任 加拿大室内设计师协会 主席

　　历任 加拿大魁北克市室内设计师协会主席

　　历任 加拿大魁北克市工业设计师协会主席

　　Past-President of the International Federation of Interior Architects/Designers (IFI)

　　Past-President of Interior Designers of Canada (IDC)

　　Past-President of Interior Designers of Québec (Canada)

　　Past-President of Association of Industrial Designers of Québec (ADIQ)