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The 4th evening of Pecha Kucha Night Brussels is taking place on May 20th, at iMAL.
More on http://pechakucha.architempo.net

Speakers planned on May 20, 2008, are
_ Moniek Darge, Music boxes, soundsculptures, audio art
_ Jean-luc Doumont, Principiae - Structuring thoughts
_ Jacqueline Ezman, Idiz Bogam, Fashion & Vintage
_ Henri Jacobs, Painter
_ Tom Lenaerts, Cellular Pecha Kucha - Biological Sciences
_ Ahmed Medhoune, Education Expert, Echevin, Sociologue
_ Sebastian Moreno-Vacca, Architecte A2M-PMP, Passive House
_ Godfried-Willem Raes, Logos Foundation - Experimental Music
_ Jeff Stewart, Rock concerts for non-profit, Minneapolis, US
_ Marleen Temmerman, Maternal Mortality, HIV silent tragedy
_ Phil Van Duyn, VP Creative Club Belgium, Adopt, ex-Ogilvy
_ Ward Verbakel, Ir. Arch. Urban Designer, Plus office
_ Z-ED Architecture
_ City mine(d) - Micronomics Festival - platform for cultural, social and economic projects in urban public space

On Friday 16th May at 22:45, a programme about Indian cinema will be discussed and commented on Belgian La Deux TV channel, with Elodie De Selys. The synopsis and the schedule are listed hereafter, in French.

Bollywood… le Hollywood indien… nom donné à l’industrie cinématographique de Bombay qui, les dernières années, a emballé et impressionné bien des imaginations dans le monde entier.”Zoom arrière” remonte le temps de l’épopée avec un documentaire de la série Neuf Millions de 1974 intitulé “Cinéma indien, Hollywood de la misère” (réalisation Jérôme Equer). Un temps où l’industrie cinématographique en Inde, quoique la plus importante du monde, n’offrait qu’une production commerciale médiocre. Un temps où un cinéma indien de grande qualité commençait, dans les plus grandes difficultés, à percer. Avec un extrait d’un “Carrousel aux images” de mai 1982 dans lequel Sélim Sasson interroge le cinéaste Mrinal Sen sur son film “Un jour comme un autre”. Invité : Alok b. Nandi, auteur et réalisateur indien qui partage son temps entre installations interactives, modalités de narration qui mêlent technologie et espace, scénario et écriture. Auteur d’une biographie en photos du grand cinéaste indien Satyajit Ray.
Scripte: Nathalie Toosdel
Invité/guest: Alok b. Nandi
Réalisateur: Lilian Cornélis
Assistant(e) de production: Carine Despontin
Journaliste présentateur: Elodie De Selys
Producteur executif: Marianne Sluszny
Prochaine diffusion: : 16/05/2008 22:50 (La Deux)
17/05/2008 03:10 (La Deux)
20/05/2008 20:25 (RTBFSat)
20/05/2008 02:12 (RTBFSat)
21/05/2008 14:10 (RTBFSat)
22/05/2008 10:40 (La Deux)
22/05/2008 00:10 (RTBFSat)
25/05/2008 10:30 (RTBFSat)
27/05/2008 11:22 (RTBFSat)
27/05/2008 22:45 (RTBFSat)

David Vanderburgh, Unité d’Architecture et d’Ingénierie architecturale, Université Catholique de Louvain la Neuve, and Alok Nandi will speak about “Urban exhibitionism, or representing the recalcitrant city”, reflecting on an exhibition they worked on in 2006/07.

ANALOGOUS SPACES - INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE
GHENT UNIVERSITY - 14-17 MAY 2008
Analogous Spaces refers to the fact that every science or knowledge, every thought, every memory, every action creates its own space and that these spaces are organised according to a similar structure or architecture.

Themes and Topics

14-17 May 2008
Ghent University, International Conference ANALOGOUS SPACES

The International Conference on Analogous Spaces interrogates the analogy between spaces in which knowledge is preserved, organized, transferred or activated. Although these spaces may differ in material, virtual, or operational ways, there are resemblances if one examines their ’structure,’ ‘form’ and ‘architecture’. How do these spaces co-exist and interrelate?

The conference will be organized around three main themes:

* The first theme (15 May) explores spatial analogies in terms of social and intellectual networks. What are the geographic relationships and/or technological affordances that support or inhibit the development of such networks? What constrains their development and effectiveness and how do different kinds of network models help in understanding their formation, evolution and dissolution.

* The second theme (16 May) deals with the space of knowledge and memory. How can we compare the encyclopedia and the museum, the book and the library, the diagram and the database? How do they use architecture to structure knowledge and how is architecture used as a metaphor of memory?

* The third theme (17 May) explores the space required for speed, action and decision making. In modernity, fast and effective action generates its own space of organization, intelligence and feedback. What does this space look like, and what are the different ways in which it can be represented?

More on http://www.analogousspaces.com
See you in Ghent on May 17th, 2008