主持嘉宾：Howard N. Rosen 博士、Chungyun Hse 教授

Topics for Discussion:

1.How to further promote this type of conference? What can we do?

2.How successful was the meeting? What is good? What can be improved?

3.What do you think of the “WoodCuture.cn” website? What are the improvements and new ideas that could be used for the website?

4.Any other ideas that related to this meeting or to the website, or to wood culture?

Constance. L McDermott: Have a section about the pros and cons that can bring more people into the wood culture and appreciate it.

Victoria L. Herian: It could include more countries to be representatives, like South America and Africa.

Petra Hildegard Roesch: It is not only the understanding of wood carving and wood art, but it also obviously the promotion of using the wood as building material and furniture material. If this is meant by promoting wood culture I would also think it could be interesting to include people who look at the resource of wood, make sure in one hundred years we still have wood as a resource, so perhaps the sustainability idea should com in too.

Arthur B. Brauner: I have the feeling when you are talking about promoting wood culture, indeed you are also talking about using the material. Coming to the conference not only to get people to understand more about how wood is being used in history but also how it can and should be used in the future. Promoting wood culture in terms of wood as a material verses other materials, the environmental advantages and disadvantages of wood. Am I correct that serves part of the goal?

Mike Wen pin hou: I believe we can do something in wood culture is to promote “wood is good“.    

Arthur B. Brauner: Ok, That what I want to know.

Chung-Yun Hse: Talking about the conventional use of wood, we cann’t compete with all those forest society or whatever. They can do much better on that side. For the last two meeting we have been very much appreciated by talking about archaeology, carving, that is a kind of weak side of the topic and isdue has not been addressed by the conventional society, like Japan Wood Society and America Wood Society, they won’t do that.That what can we do, also people are appreciated more by understand some of it. Trying to understand wood is so much a value. A lot of people are moved by Shiono’ s book about the living heart of wood, spiritual thing.

Mechtild Mertz: I think it would be good to classify the panels a litter bit. Because it was ancient, present, engineering and forest, it was not clear. It is the feeling that anyting can be put into wood culture.There is a piece of wood. Let’ s call it wood culture. It is a bit watery. If we classified a litter bit, we would find a better idea behiand wood culture, what we want to do, what we want to promote. People from the same field can discuss together.
And one more thing, we depend very much on translation and most difficult is to translate wood names, tree names. We should have a list of the tree names we used and give to the translator before. you lose everything or the important knowledge. Latin name, English name, Chinese name, may be Japanese name, it depends. At least Latin name and English name.

Chun Sukyoung: This conference name is International Conference on Wood Culture.This is the second conference here in Nanjing. The first is in Haerbin in 2006. Do you have any plan to hold the conference in the other countries?

Chung-Yun Hse: I heard from their discussion this organization likes to go to other country if we can formulate that friendly proposal. It takes a lot more to host a conference in Korea, for example than they host a conference here in China. Because here they  support the expediture of the employee. If Japan, Korea or other country really like this type of conference,they like to talk with you about that.

I participated the first one. One time I thought it would be nice if I could have do it in America.practically I cann’t try to think of it myself. It just cann’t come with the resource.It is the cost factor. If anybody has a good idea, that is one of the best way to promote. It is the international thing here. With interacting in different field, this is the most diversified meeting I have ever been. I really appreciate that.I hope that everybody has the same feeling and try to move this one step further.

Hayashi Yoshioki: Culture is a very very broad concept and difficult also. I didn’t participate the first conference and this time I came here and I knew the subject they presented is very broad. I am thinking of the concept, the purpose of this conference. I think it is better declare the mission of the conference to all over the world to exchange opinions of each other, and then they can understand much of the character of the conference, so more easy to participate this conference.

Howard N. Rosen: It’s always difficult to have conferences without sponsors. Usually, something is moving along successfully, someone would say I would have this conference. I would provide the resources of the conference. How it happens I don’t know. What is the difficulties of this conference is that it is so broad. University, companies, societies tend to be more narrow. It seems to me it has more people in this conference than last one. It seems to be a spreading conference not a contracting conference. So maybe somebody’s idea would be more helpful to make it even further spread.

Howard N. Rosen: Let’s move to the next topic: How successful was this meeting, good, bad, what do you think?

Takanori Arima: For myself it is very successful and it is very interesting.

Petra Hildegard Roesch: For me it is successful one. I like to hear the variety and get different ideas. I haven’t heard anything from Viet Nam so far, so I was very happy to hear this. It was very successful.

Chung-Yun Hse: How do you think if we put the section more precisely, topic oriented. A section talking about one archaeology, within that section, a keynote speaker and other 5 or 6 paper in that area. Is that the kind of formate it is going to do this conference. You pick up 5 or 6 different topics,that seems a little more focus.  

Petra Hildegard Roesch: It would be better to divide by topic. One topic, many disciplines.

Victoria Asens: There is a lot of conference in the world, for this point and that point. Something a little bit bigger a little bit more arranged. A little bit classification. Different disciplines will do good to each of us. We can learn a lot and we can organize our mind.

Victoria Asensi: I like the idea to tour tomorrow. It might be nice to have an afternoon to do something here, morning here, to see things along the way too. It might be difficult for the organizer to do, but breaks up the conference a little more to give you some time to relax. Actually take part of the culture of the country itself by going out into it out.

Hayashi Yoshioki: Every nation has its own wood character. It is important to exchange such information and to make harmonious society, and also sustainable society must be based on this wood culture. So it is very important. I am happy to participate this conference this time.

Constance. L McDermott: It also helps that it may be to be a little more strict about the time spent by speakers. I don’t like to cut people off too quickly. It would help to make sure we can cover all the materials. May be let the speaker know they have ten more minutes or five more minutes for them to finish.

Arthur B. Brauner: Culture in North America is that the first thing the narrator does is to tell people to shut their cell phones off. I notice that in China nobody pays any attentions to that, and cell phones are going out all over the place and people are talking on them. I would like to see the conference make a statement about that, so that you are not constantly having to listen to people answering their phones and talking on them.

Chung-Yun Hse: I made that same comment to the president of Chinese Academy of Forestry. Here in China anywhere people took it instantly. If we know this is the call from home when we are working on something in the office we pretend we didn’t hear it. But over here it becomes a culture you are always afraid this phone comes from superior. That’s what I say here the formality is so important compared to casualness.

Howard N. Rosen: Let’s talk about the Website. Would you please comment on your opinions about the website? What could be done to improve the website?

Constance. L McDermott: Several yeas ago when he came and show us the website, I thought it is excellent. There are so much information there. It is amazing the things they have put there already. For English speaking people who don’t speak Chinese it is almost impossible to figure out where to go. I know it is a huge job to do something about it. But it would be wonderful if we could spend it. If the purpose of the website is to spread knowledge to other parts of the world, that would be one way to start. I think it is too much information.

To make it you could at least to know what the topics are. I cann’t find my way through it because it is all Chinese. It is not in English.

Arthur B. Brauner: It is a great job on the website. It is a tough thing to do in a very short period time I think you put together a lot of materials. I congratulate you on that.

Chung-Yun Hse: It is impossible for young girls to go to America to do the interview. How about if doing by telephone interview? They can put you a couple of picture, may be it is a one page interview about your wisdom of your experience or something like that.

Hayashi Yoshioki: Thirty years ago the Japanese famous news company founded a journal about horticulture. It continues about twenty years. It stopped publication now. May be there is trouble on fund. At that time every month they issued a journal. Many many Japanese, university students liked it. It was very attractive. We have very close relationship with wood material in our life.

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