• Jean-Baptiste Dumont Réalisateur
• Vincent Leclercq Directeur général , Pictanovo
• Adipat Virdi Founder , Transmediology
• Ingrid Walschots Creative producer and project manager , NTR

More at http://www.crossvideodays.com

Food is at the heart of our well being. This is why Researchtalks is organizing a panel around agriculture and food on May 13. We are lucky to invite incredible speakers such as Olivier De Schutter, from the UN; Brandon Mitchener, from Monsanto; Claude Pohlig from the Slow Food movement; Alain Laigneaux from the Belgian Development Agency; Christian Hermans from the Lab of plants physiology of the ULB; and Alok Nandi, organizer of Pecha Kucha Brussels.

They will talk about agroecology, biotechnologies for a sustainable agriculture, rural development of Third World countries, the science of biofortification and the ethics and aesthetics of food. After listening to their ideas and knowledge, you’ll get a chance to exchange with the panel during a discussion-debate and to network around a drink and food.

Researchtalks idea is to discover new things, meet interesting people, and to shareknowledge. Join us for this event on food and agriculture on May 13, 2013! Registration is free but mandatory. Book your seat via http://www.researchtalks.com

AGENDA

19.00 – 19.30: Welcome (be on time!)
19:30 – 21:00: Talks

• Brandon Mitchener: What is Sustainable Agriculture? Using technology to improve food, agriculture and people’s lives
• Christian Hermans: Crop biofortification: a solution to human malnutrition?
• Olivier De Schutter: Agroecology as a new agricultural model
• Alain Laigneaux: Le rôle d’une coopération bilatérale dans le renforcement des systèmes d’agricultures familiales et les liens de marché.
• Claude Pohlig: Slow Food, la centralité de la nourriture pour une consommation au quotidien d’une alimentation durable
• Alok Nandi: Ethics & Aesthetics – Food Systems & Urban Stories

21:00 – 21:45: Discussion
21:45 – 23:45: Networking drink

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Ethics & Aesthetics – Food Systems & Urban Stories
Alok Nandi

Hundreds of years ago, the Hindu scriptures Upanishads were already mentioning ‘You are what you eat’, and more closely in Europe, in 1826, Anthelme Brillat-Savarin wrote, in Physiologie du Goût, ou Méditations de Gastronomie Transcendante: ‘Dis-moi ce que tu manges, je te dirai ce que tu es.’ Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are.
If design allows ‘transformation of existing conditions into preferred ones’ (Herbert Simon), ‘cuisine’ is interesting to put next to it, close to it, into it, or vice-versa. Especially as a process but also as a space (and a non-space), it might ensure that thinking and talking about ‘design as cuisine’ or vice-versa results into reframing making and consuming.
This “Foodmood” talk will look into some food systems in urban settings and raise ethical as well as aesthetical questions.

Ce lundi 6 mai dans Le grand Mag : Les 100 ans de Bollywood / Les architectes belges Brunfaut mis à l’honneur dans une exposition à l’Atomium / L’acteur belge Laurent Capelluto pour la pièce “ Nous étions timides ” à Namur / Studio Francis Bacon au Bozar

 

Cette année, on célèbre les 100 ans de Bollywood. Pour en parler, Laurent Dehossay reçoit Alok Nandi, auteur et réalisateur.

Comme Hollywood, mais avec un B, pour Bombay : le cinéma Bollywood fête ses 100 ans cette année. Une fois n’est pas coutume, il est même l’invité d’honneur du 66e Festival de Cannes.

C’était le 3 mai 1913 : un petit film muet de moins d’une heure inspiré de la mythologie indienne sort dans un cinéma de Bombay, “Raja Harishchandra”. Aujourd’hui, en 2013, dans la mégalopole indienne on produit plus d’un millier de films par an. Chants, danse, histoire d’amour kitsch ou tragique et gros bras : les ingrédients sont presque toujours les mêmes, mais cela marche. Bienvenue à Bollywood.

Pour infos : Cours à la Cinematek ce lundi soir à 19h00, mené par Muriel Andrin, Docteure en cinéma et présidente de la filière Ecriture et analyse cinématographiques — Master en arts du spectacle, de l’ULB. Thème : Au-delà de Bollywood : Le cinéma indien au féminin : http://www.cinematek.be/?node=17&event_id=200034202

 

Attending it also to prepare Interaction14, in Amsterdam, Feb.5th to 8th, 2014. Stay tuned.

_ Maud van Banning & Bram Hurkens – ateliereenarchitecten, Eindhoven
_ Jasper Bergink – Get a bike, get a life
_ Hilde Brepoels – Grandma’s design
_ Kristof D’hanens – Mediaraven
_ Bavo van den Heuvel – Your identity at risk: what you should have done (online)
_ Tobias Leenaert – Thursday Veggie Day
_ Louis-Philippe Loncke – Poland Trek – Kayak 1200 km
_ Olga Mascolo – On Art and Facebook
_ Ali Sohail – Why we do what we do ?
_ Ief Spincemaille, artist
_ Cerise Vandenkerckhove – Ashoka, Everyone can be a changemaker
_ Barbara Van Dyck, food & agriculture activist - What’s behind the potato field ?
_ Laure Verbruggen – A portrait of the artist as a worker
_ Sylvain Vriens, artist

Please note this is not the speaking order. Language of this Vol. is English.

#pknbru #pechakucha are the hashtags we propose to use.

http://pechakucha.architempo.net

Free evening - Registration requested.

PechaKucha Night Brussels Vol. 26
23 Jan. 2013, at 20:20
We recommend that you arrive half an hour early.

Where
Halles de Schaerbeek
Brussels

This 6-hour feature length documentary is divided in 4 chapters of 90 minutes each:  EAST – SOUTH – MIDWEST – WEST.

The film was selected for IDFA’s 25th edition (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2012).

Programne:
Friday 18.01 
19:30 Part I: East (95’)

Saturday 19.01
14:00 Masterclass @CINEMATEK with Rogier Van Eck & Rob Rombout
19:30 Part II: South (87’)
21:30 Part III: Midwest (85’)

Sunday 20.01
11:00 Part IV: West (90’)
12:30 Q&A with the directors led by Alok Nandi

Qu’y a-t-il dans un nom ? Un visage de l’Amérique… Amsterdam Stories USA est un road-movie qui relie 15 localités provinciales nord-américaines, toutes homonymes de la capitale hollandaise. D’Est en Ouest – de l’arrivée à New York, l’ancienne Nieuw Amsterdam, jusqu’en Californie – deux réalisateurs d’origine néerlandaise, Rogier van Eck & Rob Rombout, esquissent un portrait de la « small town America » en suivant un seul nom.

Opérant tel un sésame, le nom d’Amsterdam permet d’approcher la réalité et l’imaginaire de l’Amérique profonde. En résulte une représentation inhabituelle d’une Amérique méconnue, intime, parfois étrange, où les cinéastes sont aussi des protagonistes parmi tant d’autres.

Ce long-métrage documentaire de 6 heures est divisé en 4 chapitres de 90 minutes : EAST – SOUTH – MIDWEST – WEST.

Il a été sélectionné à la 25ème édition de l’IDFA (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2012).

Au programme:
Vendredi 18.01 
19:30 Partie I : East (95’)

Samedi 19.01 
14:00 Masterclass @CINEMATEK avec Rogier Van Eck & Rob Rombout
19:30 Partie II : South (87’)
21:30 Partie III : Midwest (85’)

Dimanche 20.01
11:00 Partie IV : West (90’)
12:30 Rencontre avec les réalisateurs animée par Alok Nandi

Quite a journey to end 2012 !

• Paula Dib : Design as a Process - http://www.transformadesign.com.br
• Barbara Brondi & Marco Rainò - IN Residence: Design Dialogues - http://www.brh.it
• FUMNE LAB - http://www.lacasadipinocchio.net/index.php/it/progetto-fumne-lab
• Wallonie-Bruxelles Design/Mode (WBDM) - Un’agenzia pubbblica di sostegno al design e alla moda ‘made in Belgium’ - http://www.wbdm.be
• CTRLZAK Studio - Tavola Periodica - http://www.ctrlzak.com
• François Jegou – Strategic Design Scenarios - http://www.strategicdesignscenarios.net
• Alain Berteau – Objekten - http://www.objekten.com

Il PechaKucha sarà presentato da Alok Nandi – Architempo - http://www.architempo.net

More about PechaKucha

Update: Interaction14 will take place Feb. 5 to 8, 2014, in Amsterdam. For more about Interaction Design Association – check www.ixda.org

It has just been announced on IxDA ! I am honoured to be trusted by the Interaction Design Association. Join the conversation at Interaction14 and before for its preparation :

On behalf of the IxDA Board of Directors, it is with great pleasure that we announce Alok Nandi as Chair of Interaction14, to be held February, 2014 in Amsterdam in conjunction with Utrecht School of the Arts and Delft University of Technology.

Alok was selected from a short list of candidates following an open call for nominations from the IxDA community.

The call for Chair of the Interaction conference resulted in more than 30 qualified submissions – a measure of the depth of talent and willingness to take on key volunteer leadership roles within our global IxDA community. Thank you to everyone who made the commitment to put their name forward for consideration.

The review panel included our Treasurer, MJ Broadbent, Director Séamus Byrne, our Executive Director Brenda Sanderson and myself. Drawing on the collective experience as past chairs of Interaction11 and Interaction12 within the panel, we were unanimous in our decision. Alok brings a combination of experience and enthusiasm to the role and we were inspired by his broad vision of interaction design practice.

Amsterdam

Interaction14 will be the second IxDA conference to be held in Europe, following from the successful staging of Interaction12 in Dublin, Ireland earlier this year. It will take place in Amsterdam in February 2014.

IxDA Netherland, along with Utrecht School of the Arts and Delft University of Technology, put forward a comprehensive proposal that received the unanimous support of the IxDA Board.  Alok has named Yohan Creemers, Chair of IxDA Netherland and a member of the Dutch bid team, as his Co-Chair for Interaction14.

Welcome and congratulations, Alok and Yohan! The IxDA community is honored to have you take up this challenge and we look forward to meeting in Amsterdam in February 2014.

Regards,

Steve Baty
President, IxDA

*** Registrations are currently open for Interaction13. For more details please see http://interaction13.ixda.org/ ***

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