interaction design information architecture cross-media experience scenario
“As the prefix trans indicates, transdisciplinarity concerns that which is at once between the disciplines, across the different disciplines, and beyond all discipline. Its goal is the understanding of the present world, of which one of the imperatives is the unity of knowledge.”
B. Nicolescu
One might argue about the imperatives. However, the understanding of practices and processes do need to go “out of the box”, in “real” life … hence trans-.
Alok Nandi is launching Pecha Kucha Night Brussels.
What does “Pecha Kucha” mean ?
More on http://pechakucha.architempo.net
Pecha Kucha, a Japanese expression for the sound of conversation, is a series of show and tell evenings for designers, architects, artists, creatives, … started by Klein Dytham Architecture in Tokyo.
Since 2003, groups have sprung up in cities all over the world (over 80 so far) and adopted the Pecha Kucha format: each presenter has 20 slides which are displayed for 20 seconds each.
The idea is to create an environment where creatives from all fields can present (in 6 minutes and 40 seconds) a project carried out, under development, or which they dream to see accomplished. Anyone who has made, or will make, something interesting and would like share with the curious and open minded is welcome.
These last seven months, Alok Nandi was giving a weekly radio chronicle for Paris-based radio BFM, in the programme “IndeHebdo”, covering “books and India”, in French: fiction and non-fiction, essays, design, … all genres … One way was to look at narratives and storytelling for systems design, or in other words “experience design” [non ?].
These are accessible via podcast and will be radio-casted in FM this summer.
List of chronicles and podcast access on mahanet.com
“Fresh Food, Frozen City” was one of the topic presented by Alok Nandi, at Doors of Perception in March 2007 in Delhi. It raises many themes connected to innovation, emergence, design, narrative, …
Interventions are in development. Today’s hype jargon would label these City 2.0, Food 2.0.
For more information, you can get in touch with Alok Nandi.
Two screen-based installations have been designed for the dual exhibition (Brussels and Louvain-la-Neuve) exploring the genesis of a “new city”. Exhibition is running from April 27th to June 24th, 2007.
More info on http://www.idville.be “idee ville - idea of a city”.
Alok Nandi is speaking on April 27th at MIT, in “Cambridge, overlooking Boston,” in the Media in Transition conference, in the session
Authorship and Network Culture
with
_ Lanfranco Aceti, Displaced Commentaries, Multiple Artifices and Many Authors?
_ Jessica Hammer, Traditional, Collaborative and Mixed Forms of Authorship
_ Alok Nandi, From Hyperfiction to Extrafiction
_ Jon Saklofske, The Necessity of Collaboration, Conversation, Complexty and Conflict in the Constitution of Digital Culture(s)
Moderator: Lanfranco Aceti
More info on the conference and its agenda
The article “Pavillons de connaissances: espaces publics, espaces hybrides”, by Alok Nandi, has been published in AV-industrie, a professional magazine in Belgium.
The role of museums and sciences centres with audiovisual and interactive media professionals.
Media in Transition
International Conference
April 27-29, 2007
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Creativity, ownership and collaboration in the digital age
Our understanding of the technical and social processes by which culture is made and reproduced is being challenged and enlarged by digital technologies. An emerging generation of media producers is sampling and remixing existing materials as core ingredients in their own work. Readers are actively reshaping media content as they personalize it for their own use or customize it for the needs of grassroots and online communities. Of course, the idea that artists build on earlier traditions or that new texts speak to and about earlier texts is scarcely a new idea. This fifth Media in Transition conference aims to generate a conversation that compares historical forms of cultural expression with contemporary media practices.
Friday April 27th, 2:15-3:45
From Hyperfiction to Extrafiction, Alok Nandi
“Extrafiction” is a conceptual framework encapsuling research, design and development coined by this author. In a networked environment where architecture meets storytelling with or without technologies, what narratives and imaginary spaces are articulated? How functions are extrapolated, remediated into fiction? What are the emerging patterns in praxis? This presentation will discuss the contributions and conversations emerging and connected to two exhibitions, D-Design (Centre Pompidou, Paris summer 2005) and Africamuseum (Belgium, in progress). These exhibitions contained set-ups allowing their audiences to propose stories. Overall, this approach could be called “Exhibition 2.0,” allowing visitors to comment, tag and annotate.
Architempo is partner of the exhibition LLN : 1968-73 examining urban genesis of Louvain la Neuve, a “city” born in rural land; Alok Nandi is part of the exhibition design team of this double exhibition taking place both in Brussels Archi La Cambre (Place Flagey) and in Louvain la Neuve, 25 km south of Brussels.
Alok Nandi, in parallel to his activities in new media, information architecture and interaction design, continues his voyage into literature. He will be convening a panel in Paris Book Fair 2007, Tuesday, March 27th :
- 19h30 à 21h« Formes de l’oeuvre, formes à l’oeuvre »
De l’importance du genre : roman graphique ou policier, poésie, chronique, voire dictionnaire…Avec Sarnath Banerjee, K. Satchidanandan, Allan Sealy, Kalpana Swaminathan et Udayan Vajpeyi.
Table ronde animée par Alok Nandi
More [in French] on mahanet.com for activities related to literature.