Doors of Perception 9 in Delhi
Friday, January 26th, 2007JUICE: Food, Energy, Design
Doors of Perception 9 takes place in New Delhi at India Habitat Centre on Saturday 3 March (with a welcome reception the evening before, 2 March). The theme of the conference is “Juice: Food, Energy, Design”. The conference is followed in the evening of 3 March by a social technologies bazaar. Doors 9 is preceded earlier in the week by an evening Mediawalla Festival produced by Pixelache. On Sunday 4th all participants are invited to a Holi party.
WHY FOOD AND ENERGY AS AN ISSUE?
Global food systems are not sustainable. Industrialised food consumes ten times more energy in production and distribution than enters our bodies as nutrition. In ‘developed’ countries, the food consumption of a single family generates eight tonnes of CO2 emissions a year.
People in industrialised countries - that probably includes you and me - eat between six and seven kilogrammes of food additives every year.
This madness is enabled by non renewable fossil fuel. But what to do? Doors 9 breaks the food systems issue into bite-sized design chunks.
Alok Nandi will be participating in this Doors of Perception edition.
Here is the programme:
DOORS 9 CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
Saturday 3 March
India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
Registration 08:00h
Conference begins 09:30h
Opening
Doors 9 opens with a introduction to the relationships between food, energy, sustainability and design by Hannu Nieminen (Finland, Nokia), Aditya Dev Sood (India, Centre for Knowldge Societies), Debra Solomon (Netherlands, culiblog.org) and John Thackara (France, Doors of Perception).
Session 2
Session 2 is about food in cities: Dutch architect Winy Maas (MVRDV) proposes three-dimensional agriculture, with a reference to pig cities. Urban designer Andre Viljoen explains his book about Continuous Productive Urban Landscapes (CPULS). David Barrie and Nina Belk describe their urban farming project for Designs of the time (Do0tt 07) in the UK. Designers Sanjeev Shankar and John Vijay Abraham compare old and new traditions of street food. Chris Hardwicke (Toronto) and Ron Paul (Portland) discuss farmers markets as hubs within food systems.
Session 3
Session 3 is on food information systems. Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, ponders new ways to think about browsing for food. Divya Sharma looks at food maps. Ellis Neder (USA) and Ian Brown (Fair Tracing, UK) look at identity management and food certification systems.
Session 4
Session 4 of Doors 9 is on “juice”. Designer Jogi Panghaal reflects on the different ways European and Asian cultures think about food. Alex Steffen and Sarah Rich (editors of Worldchanging: A User’s Guide to the 21st Century) describe small and large scale changes already under way. Walter Amerika, an advisor to global food companies, asks whether multinationals can be part of the solution.
Session 5
Session 5 of Doors 9 (yes, it’s a full day) is a social technologies bazaar featuring innovative food-related projects from around the world. Among those you will meet are: Garrick Jones (UK, Ludic Corporation); Georg Christoph Bertsch (Germany, Cargo Bathing); Giovanni Canata (Italy, DxH2O water project); Claire Harten (USA) and Maria Wedum (Denmark), Dirt Cafe; Kultivator (Sweden, agriculture as art); Alok Nandi (food cultures in Kolkata); Dori Gislason (Iceland, new lives for fishing villages); Francesca Sarti (Italy, food kiosks in Florence); Marije Vogelzang (Netherlands, Proef project); Maja Kuzmanovic (Netherlands, Groworld) ; Margie Morris (USA, Intel, food repositories); Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino (representing thinglink); Stefan Magdalinski (whitelabel.org).
MEDIAWALLA PROCESSION
Plans for a street-level new media happening during Doors 9 are being developed in some secrecy by Juha Huuskonen and Aditya Dev Sood. We know is its name - Mediawalla Festival, or MWF - and that it’s inspired by the mythical wedding procession of Radha and Krishna. MWF is, we hear,”a collaborative interpretation of ritual in the public space”. Featured artists will include Leandro Pisano and Alessandro Esposito http://www.interferenze.org/ who will present projects from http://www.molleindustria.it/ .
