Archive for February, 2010

Hors-Pistes 2010 Centre Pompidou Paris

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

The Hors-Pistes Festival is taking place in Paris, at the Centre Pompidou.
Alok Nandi is amongst the speakers, for a conversation about “food design”, on February 20th, at 17:00.

hors pistes food design

More on the Hors-Pistes 2010 website.

Conversation autour du food design d’Alok Nandi




Si le « design » permet la « transformation des conditions existantes en de meilleures » (Herbert Simon), la « cuisine » est un terrain approprié, et le « food design » un domaine fascinant d’exploration des goûts. 

Cuisiner et consommer sont des actes conceptuels, physiques, « expérientiels », qui demandent réflexion, qui souhaitent digestion. Cette intervention permet de voyager dans des « foodscapes », afin de révéler des attitudes design, en travaillant les « sept » goûts capitaux, dans un monde en globalisation, nous dit-on. 

Ces conversations, autour du « food design » au sens large, offrent au public l’occasion de découvrir le mystère des goûts, le travail des chefs, les mécaniques de la fabrique culinaire, l’exploration des saveurs, le voyage des épices…

The Flemish Primitives - Brugge Feb. 8th

Monday, February 8th, 2010

The Flemish Primitives is taking place in Brugge and its second edition will gather 1200 persons, exploring themes related to food, cuisine, seasons, … Alok Nandi is amongst the guests, speaking about cuisine and India and design and taste and shape.

flemish primitives

More on the event is on the The Flemish Primitives -

Vrak Festival - Ignite 01

Thursday, February 4th, 2010

The Ignite series is launched this February 4th 2010 in Brussels, in partnership with Vrak Festival, performing arts looking at young creation. Ignite will be thematic while Pecha Kucha Brussels is working with transdisciplinarity.

ignite by architempo

The list of speakers for this first Volume is on the Ignite Brussels page - Please note that it takes place in French and registration in managed by the Festival.

ignite by architempo

About the young creation in Brussels : Vrak Festival Brussels

in LE SOIR newspaper- in French

Thursday, February 4th, 2010

Alok Nandi - featured in the French-speaking newspaper LE SOIR, an article by journalist Adrienne Nizet :