• May 28, 2012 – Madrid Transmedia Lab
• June 1, 2012 – Paris Designer’s Days
• June 4, 2012 – Rencontres de Bruxelles – Création connectée
• June 7, 2012 – ERRIN Design Days – Service Design
• June 14, 2012 – Paris CNAM – Dramaturgies interactives et dispositifs transmedia
• June 18-19, 2012 – Copenhagen coCreationcamp w/ cocreatech CBS
• June 28, 2012 – London Food Design co-creation panel

And some other shared storyspaces in preparation with PechaKucha evenings as well as jury member in CORE 77 Awards, Brouillon d’un rêve multimedia, EDF Sustainable Energy Challenge.

When? April 17-20, 5pm-7:30pm

Where? The Heineken Open Design Explorations club space, in Milan’s Tortona area, at the intersection of via Bugatti and via Forcella

PechaKucha is going to Milan!

That’s right, we’re invading the Milano Salone with 4 special PechaKucha events, all taking place in The Club, an amazing temporary space built by Heineken just for the Salone, designed by a group of up and coming designers we helped find through a series of special PechaKucha Nights in Sao Paulo, Tokyo, New York and Milan last year.

 

We have a fantastic group of presenters planned, with a few PechaKucha city organizers taking to the stage (Brussels, Istanbul, Riga, Stockholm, Tokyo) along with some terrific design talents. If you’re a fan of Swedish design, make sure to drop by the Thursday (April 19) event, as it will feature an all-Swede lineup! PechaKucha founder Mark Dytham will be hosting the events along with Marc van Iterson, Head of Global Heineken Design and Concept.

‘Belgium is Design’ proudly announces details of Perspectives, an exhibition that surveys the current landscape of Belgian design and is the result of collaboration by the country’s leading design organizations and promoters. Taking place at the prestigious Triennale di Milano during Milan Design Week from 17-22 April 2012, a total of 25 established and emerging Belgian designers and companies will participate in the event.

Where is the horizon for today’s designs? What clouds are gathering ahead? And what lies beyond? In a collection of prototypes, products, services, projects and systems, Perspectives offers intriguing, thoughtful and joyful reference points from which to consider the influence and impact design has on daily lives lived in parallel, colliding, harmonious and divergent ways.

Perspectives places emphasis not only on design in the here and now, but on its prehistory and future projections. Sampling an array of practices and methodologies, it is a logic that invites the visitor to consider the designer’s search for a solution and its interpretation once in the public realm. From a social perspective, design comes from a desire to change – a more or less utopian representation of something better. This motivation also traverses design’s cultural perspective, where forms, materials, technical realizations and production processes provide important anthropological indicators and evidence of the evolution of human behaviour, needs and wants.

Reflecting both local and global contexts, the narrative of the exhibition draws on five different scenarios: industrial design, self-produced design (the designer/craftsman), design art (one-off series), social design and design as an ‘open work’ (open source, rapid prototyping). From these indicative ‘perspective grids’, each strand will give a kind of inventory of perspectives, demonstrating how approaches to design merge, converge and diverge. ‘How, why and what?’ questions are posed throughout, with Belgian designers and companies responding to challenges such as economic instability, environmental impact, ageing populations, sustainable development and social cohesion with objects and projects that range from cooking pots to walking sticks and production models.

However, Perspectives also acknowledges the intangible world design occupies, where the poetic potential of rapid prototyping and raw materials does not exclude one another. In this dimension, the motivations and emotions of the designer meet those they provoke in the user, and the experience can be both intensely individual or a political invitation to share responsibility. It all depends on the perspective.

This is the first time that the joint Belgian design exhibition has taken place at the Triennale during Milan Design Week. The location, built in 1933, is a major reference for international design, art, applied arts and architecture exhibitions, and offers a setting in which content is paramount and where participants, their work & associated partners/agencies can receive maximum exposure on the international stage.

The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue and website.

More via the Perspectives website.

The Core77 Design Awards is proud to announce our first six complete Jury Teams representing an incredible range of design expertise from around the world—Consumer Products (London, UK), Visual Communication (Seoul, Korea), Food Design (Paris, France), Writing & Commentary (New York City, USA), Educational Initiatives (Pasadena, USA) and DIY (New York City, USA).

We thank our 2012 Jury Captains for curating a diverse and inspiring group of thought leaders. Based in 13 cities around world, our 20 Jury Captains—at least one for each of the 17 categories—have been busy selecting the 3-4 people from their home city to join them on the jury team. Stay tuned as we release more complete teams in the coming weeks.

More on http://www.core77designawards.com

What could that mean ? just did a short video contribution for Thinking Food Design, a project lead by Marc Bretillot, designer culinaire in Paris.

Looking forward to see it in the context of Paris des Chefs – Thanks Marc for inviting me in this collaborative piece.

coCreationcamp is a platform for expanding innovation, allowing the connections between public sector, private corporations and creative people.

We are convinced that at the intersection zone of these three positions (people, public, private) the innovation landscape can develop in interesting ways. The involvement of people can and will allow the expansion of innovative solutions for a better world.

It was launched on Nov. 20, 2007, and there we are – 20 Volumes, without sponsors but with the help of many people and great speakers, of partners (ecocode, Crosstalks VUB and many others), of venues, … and of course to the PechaKucha Tokyo HQ.

Thanks to you all !

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http://pechakucha.architempo.net

http://www.architempo.net/food-design