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Architempo is actively busy with the 2.0 version of the SEP platform

The Sustainable Everyday Project (SEP) proposes an open web platform to stimulate social conversation on possible sustainable futures…
The SEP network is organized around 3 core activities.

The promotion of a Scenarios laboratory where new visions of sustainable everyday life are proposed and discussed.

The constitution of a Catalogue of cases showing examples of social innovation from all other the world developing original solutions promising in terms of sustainability.

The organization of a traveling exhibition to meet public events, confront with close scientific communities and give visibility to new visions of sustainable daily living.

The SEP platform hosts several research activities and didactic workshops. The Platform is an organization and communication tool providing an open web space and visibility for activities relating to the fields of design and sustainability in the everyday context.

SEP is an independent network funded by public research projects and organization of events. Editorial activities are based on a voluntary participation.

SEP events are placed under the patronage of UNEP United Nations Environment Program.

This 25th October, Alok Nandi is giving a talk on parallel cinema in India, looking a.o. at Ritwik Ghatak, Satyajit Ray, Mrinal Sen, …
at Le Fresnoy, an art school close to Lille, North of France. On 21st, he was moderating a debate with documentarist Anand Patwardhan.

Electre, a reference database of books in French, and Architempo, design agency, with a focus on information architecture, are partnering to launch a catalogue of books on India in French. Authors can be of any nationality or origin, as long as books cover topics related to India.

The catalogue is on mahanet.com/biblio

As the on-line catalogue is in French:

Electre, base bibliographique de référence, en français, et Architempo, agence de design, dont un des axes de travail est l’architecture de l’information (information architecture), mettent en place un catalogue francophone centré sur les ouvrages liés à l’Inde, quels que soient les auteurs, indiens ou français ou autres, pour autant que les ouvrages soient en langue française.

This in situ and interactive installation takes place from October 14th to January 14th in the exhibition “Bombay Maximum City”, in the lille3000 India Festival. This first version of the installation - looking at “mariages arrangés, amoureux, dérangés” as a social construct in urban setting - is showing the dynamics of communities in this megapolis, microcosm of India, microcosm of the globe (?) and proposing critical distance in certain rituals.
art & concept: Alok Nandi - curator: Caroline Naphegyi
design: architempo - code: ecocode

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Architempo, lille3000, la Chambre de Commerce de Lille (pôle international), Lille Grand Palais, Edhec Business School, l’EIEIBG, la Ville de Lille, avec le magazine Indes, proposent trois rencontres pour mieux comprendre l’Inde, les 18 octobre (in English), 16 novembre et 14 décembre. Le programme est téléchargeable sous format .pdf (lisible avec Acrobat Reader)

Architempo, lille3000, the Chamber of Commerce of Lille (international), Lille Grand Palais, Edhec Business School, EIEIBG, the City of Lille, with the magazine Indes, propose three meetings to better understand India, on Oct. 18th (in English), Nov. 16th (in French) and Dec. 14th.
The program is downloadable in .pdf format (to use with Acrobat Reader)

The India Festival had its launch this October 14th: 150 000 persons in the city of Lille.
The programme is on for three months.
More on the site of Voix du Nord

From non-fiction to fiction, VOICES OF INDIA will provide a compelling journey through the paradoxes, myths and realities of India, through story-telling.

While Pavan Varma examines his fellow countrymen and especially what really makes Indians tick, Chaudhuri is offering a map of voices not to be overlooked.

“Can it be true that Indian writing, that endlessly rich, complex and problematic entity, is to be represented by a handful of writers who write in English, who live in England or America and whom one might have met at a party?” writes Amit Chaudhuri in his anthology The Picador Book of Modern Indian Literature (2001).

“More importantly, is it possible to assess properly and appreciate the merits of this handful of writers without any resource to the diverse intellectual traditions to which they do or do not belong?”

India is the guest country of the Frankfurter Buchmesse (Frankfurt Book Fair) 2006. Soon after the Book Fair, a number of the authors involved will come to Brussels. A variety of languages and voices will be represented, a.o. Hindi, Urdu, and from the North East.

author Amit Chaudhuri - author Mamang Dai - author Nida Fazli - author Leeladhar Jagoori - author Pavan K. Varma -
convenor Alok b. Nandi

BOZAR LITERATURE

The October issue of Paris based Beaux Arts Magazine has just been released. It contains a special focus on India in relation to the lille3000 India Festival, to take place from October 14th, 2006, till January 14th, 2007. Alok Nandi has written the articles on cinema and literature.

More on the magazine at

French-speaking Ministry of Culture has named Alok Nandi as president of the newly established Commission multimédia / arts numériques. Few months ago, Alok Nandi was selected to seat on the Flemish-speaking Commission for Experimentale Media Art at VAF (Vlaams Audiovisueel Fonds), “Beoordelingscommissie Experimentele Mediakunst”.