Alok b. Nandi

Born in Congo. Raised in Zaïre. Based in Brussels, Europe.
Active in several scapes, and often in between.

Designer is the label or the title which fits what I am busy with for number of years. Some of these activities can specifically be labelled as concept development, scenario design, ideation, cultural engineering, publishing, creative direction, artistic adviser, audiovisual production, information architecture, media art.

I see my role (designer / media artist / writer-director / strategic design consultant) as exploring, investigating "conflicting constraints" in evolving and hybrid "contexts". "Les contraintes contradictoires" is also the term I use to position the "design methods" class I give at the University of Louvain-la-Neuve, near Brussels. On a more abstract and conceptual note, my research interests are on : navigation, interaction, visualization, patterns, imageability, ambulation, way finding, saturation, frugality, zero, food ... in general with a narrative angle, or "story-telling". Concrete areas of activities are information design, media technologies, exhibition mise-en-scene, media art, speaking in conferences a.o.

In the past I did set up a narrative lab [laboratory or labyrinth, the same journey, non ?] exploring scapes which are in between graphic novels, exhibition, film, ... The journey continues. Background combines engineering, management and film studies. And some important moments as a student were when I was working backstage and driver for concert organizers (hence chauffeur of musicians of Miles Davis, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, ...).

When not travelling, I make my own bread (topic of a design research case partly presented in a talk and yet to be written about). Currently busy with the "Al Dente Manifesto" a.o. while some work in progress is listed here: Orientable, India in Flux, FoodMood, Extrafiction, Uzoopia, is zero no.thing ?, Pecha Kucha Night Brussels, {creativity*conversation}, etc

Alok b. Nandi

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