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What design can do in the Agri-food sectors ? A question explored in Zaragoza in a conference looking at innovation and co in Aragon, where filmmaker Bunuel was born …

Speaking at the Atomium about Sustainable Food Systems.

We enter the last stage of the energy era and the problems have become bigger than the benefits. We are in the midst of 4 substantial crises : (1) the reliance of cheap labor, logistics, global economy and food on energy (2) the location of the oil production in political instable countries (3) reaching peak oil, meaning that pretty soon now half of the global oil is used up and the second half will become unaffordable (4) the highly underestimated feedback loop of the climate change.

The frog indeed is boiling and the global economic crisis might just be the golden opportunity to tackle these questions in a sustainable way.

Thursday May 14 is the fourth workshop in the context of the Energy Efficiency project, this time set in the symbolic space of the Atomium. In the first session we want to explore the interdependencies, opportunities and trade-offs with regard to policymaking and the corporate world. In the afternoon we will present some inspiring cases and methods.

An event organized by CROSSTALKS / VUB.

The list of speakers at Pecha Kucha Night Brussels Vol.08 is published. Check http://pechakucha.architempo.net
The Vol. 08 is taking place at Claridge, an 11 screens venue, on May 14th 2009. See you there.

Design and Food: the stories continue. Speaking with a focus on Food in a Brussels Energy conference on May 14th 2009 and in Zaragoza Spain on June 18th 2009.

A spin-off of Pecha Kucha Night Brussels to take place in a university and have researchers, scientists, academics, … talk about their work.
Alok Nandi will launch the series.

Alok Nandi has conceived/directed an audio installation for a very public plazza, The Brussels Grand Place / Grote Markt, in the heart of the city.
It takes place every week day, between 10.00 and 18.00, every twenty minutes. Voices from different parts of the world will offer their accent, sharing a sentence by novelist Alain Berenboom.
More on http://accents.asuivre.com
On March 21st, a workshop with the design School St-Lukas will allow visual investigations of what could Accents mean, with the students of Annelies Vaneycken.

Alok Nandi is giving a talk on the added-value of design at an agro-food conference in Thessaloniki organised by the European Commission, a.o. - March 6th, 2009.

Alok Nandi is hosting a session on “le vent numérique” this March 5th at the Brussels Book Fair. The effect of “digital” in publishing scapes.
Mmhhh. See you there at Tour & Taxis, Foire du Livre de Bruxelles.

Alok Nandi is launching “Accents”, a series of urban interventions - the first one will be audio and take place in one of the well-known plazza in Europe: Grand-Place in Brussels, as part of the “Bruxelles, ville des mots” events. An exploration of what can intonation bring in multiple media art and design, looking beyond interaction. In parallel, there will be a workshop in March with design school St-Lukas Brussels, with Annelies Vaneycken and her students, dept. of visual design. More soon about the urban installation and the workshop.

“Bruxelles, ville des mots” is part of “La langue française en fête” and takes place from March 14th to March 22nd.

Convening a session at Anima on documentary films using animation as a genre. An emerging genre raising questions about the “right distance” with the subject. We all have heard of the film Waltz with Bashir, multi-awards winner. There are other films and Anima is a place to know more. Session in French/Dutch.

Documentaire et animation – les contradictions apparentes ?
Traditionnellement associée au registre de la fiction, l’animation est aujourd’hui de plus en plus utilisée dans la réalisation de films documentaires. Au cours de cet atelier/conférence organisé par la SACD/Scam nous réfléchirons avec des auteurs et des praticiens de l’animation et du documentaire à la manière dont l’animation s’intègre dans le registre documentaire et comment elle permet de rendre compte de la réalité. Les contradictions apparentes entre animation et documentaire soulèvent en effet des questions qui sont au cœur de toute pratique documentaire : question de l’écriture et de la scénarisation, de la subjectivité, de l’appréhension de la réalité,.. Illustrés par des extraits de films, les intervenants parleront de la manière dont ils cherchent la « juste distance ».
Avec des extraits de films : Zorobabel, Graphoui, La Boîte, Emma De Swaef…
Une séance SACD/Scam, animée par Alok Nandi (auteur, membre du Comité belge de la Scam) avec, entre autres, Arnaud Demuynck (auteur, producteur La Boîte), William Henne (auteur, producteur, Atelier Zorobabel), Luc Jabon (scénariste, président du Comité belge de la SACD), l’Atelier Graphoui, Rob Rombout (documentariste, professeur au RITS et à Sint-Lukas).
Le 27 février à 14 heures