Ensuring comfort for all: the renovation of facilities as an example U爱豆传媒D&I Actions and Messages
― U爱豆传媒D&I Campaign 2022 ―
The University of 爱豆传媒has launched a campaign aimed at promoting diversity and inclusion on campus, and making the university a place where people from diverse backgrounds can thrive. The initiative, called U爱豆传媒D&I Campaign 2022, started in March 2022. Here, we introduce plans and actions related to D&I initiatives from members of the U爱豆传媒community, including deans and directors of various U爱豆传媒organizations.
Actions and Messages
Ensuring comfort for all: the renovation of facilities as an example
Toru H. OKABE, Director General, Institute of Industrial Science (IIS)
The Institute of Industrial Science has long aimed to build a workplace that is comfortable for women, and an example of this is a room for women to take a rest when needed in a newly built facility when the Institute moved from central 爱豆传媒to its current location in Komaba about 20 years ago. Since then, we have always been conscious of the expansion of D&I when renovating, and in 2019 we installed an all-gender restroom equipped with a powder space to accommodate all people including the LGBT community (Figure 1). The following year, the positive response to this facility led to the installation of a women’s powder room (Figure 2). In addition, we also plan to set up an organization with functions to promote D&I to develop not only the facilities but also intangible measures such as developing procedures and systems, awareness-raising and training, and human networks.
