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Pecha Kucha Night Vol. 13 took place on May 6th 2010, opening of Humane Cities Festival.

The speakers in Bozar Brussels were :

_ Brigitte Grouwels - Minister, Transportation and Mobility a.o., Brussels Region
_ Sergio Honorez - Editorial Director, Editions Dupuis, radio chronicler, …
_ François Jégou - Designer, SDS, an ideal Human City
_ Avi Laiser - Architect - AL/Arch, Tel Aviv
_ Emmanuel Lambion - B-1010 the 20th Brussels Borough
_ Ezio Manzini - Social Innovation and Sustainability, Politecnico di Milano
_ Anna Michalska - Visual Artist
_ Alexander Muspratt-Williams - Bespoke Bollywood
_ Josep Ma Serra - Santa & Cole, Barcelona
_ Antoine Tshitungu Kongolo - Congo BD Strip
_ BUUR, Bureau voor Urbanism, Leuven
_ Esquisse Commune - Ecole d’Architecture Horta La Cambre ULB
_ Evelyne Huytebroeck - Minister, Environment and Energy, Brussels Region
was represented by her advisers Catherine Fierens and Mathieu Berger

For the programme of the festival, check Human Cities Festival
For the next Pecha Kucha in Brussels, check Pecha Kucha Night Brussels

Alok Nandi will be speaking at the INHA conference set by Sens Public.

COLLOQUE INTERNATIONAL (INHA) - LE NUMÉRIQUE ÉDITORIAL ET SA GOUVERNANCE : ENTRE SAVOIRS ET POUVOIRS (28-30 AVRIL) / INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE - DIGITAL PUBLISHING AND ITS GOVERNANCE : BETWEEN KNOWLEDGE AND POWER (APRIL, 28-30TH)

L’enjeu principal du colloque sera d’envisager le numérique comme sujet des sciences humaines et sociales. Comment le numérique façonne-t-il les pratiques ? Quels modèles économiques pourra-t-on appliquer à leur éditorialisation ? Comment penser la gouvernance des institutions culturelles numériques ?

The main challenge of the conference will be to consider the digital as subject matter for the humanities and social sciences. How does digital practice reshape art, humanities and social sciences ? What business models will support the new dissemination of knowledge and open access to data ? How does the digital reconfigure the governance and management of the cultural infrastructure ?

More on the Sens Public - INHA Conference / Colloque website.

Volcano Ash Chaos resulted in burning time which was already flying.

March 19th saw the 12th Pecha Kucha Brussels, in partnership with architecture students Box L, of Horta Architecture School.

Last week of March, Esquisse Commune, a one-week seminar by Horat Architecture School students, took place in Brussels City center - the best group will present at Pecha Kucha Vol. 13, on May 6th in Bozar.

Alok Nandi and Giovanna Massoni are selected to set the design exhibition “Multiple Plan” for end October at Red Dot Design Museum, in Essen, as part of the Ruhr European Cultural Capital activities, as well as in the programme of the EU Belgian Presidency. More soon.

April will be busy with a “non-conference” on Design Household Energy Practices, organised by ULB and Strategic Design Scenarios. The Tempocode software (an Ecocode & Architempo collaboration) will power the “conversations” in the workshop.

Alok Nandi is invited to speak on April 29th at Paris INHA (Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art), in the Sens Public conference.

Brussels was on the map of the Global Ignite Week on March 3, 2010, in association with Campustalks at VUB, organised by Crosstalks. This was Ignite #02. The next Ignite is taking place on March 15th, with the exhibition opening of 1001 Brains, as part of the Brain Week.

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.

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 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.

More on the event is on the The Flemish Primitives -

A special Pecha Kucha Brunch this 24th of January 2010 at Claridge

Go here to register for the Pecha Kucha Brunch - Please note that this PK will essentially take place in French. For the next Pecha Kucha Night - in English, see you on January 28th and you can register on Pecha Kucha Night

Critical Point of View: Wikipedia Research Initiative

Wikipedia has emerged as the de facto global reference of dynamic knowledge. Different stakeholders – Wikipedians, users, academics, researchers, Web 2.0 gurus, publishing houses and governments have entered fierce debates and discussions about what the rise of Wikipedia and Wiki cultures means and how they influence the information societies we live in. The Wikipedia project itself has been at the centre of much controversy, pivoted around questions of accuracy, anonymity, vandalism, expertise and authority.

The Centre for Internet and Society (Bangalore, India) and the Institute of Network Cultures (Amsterdam, Netherlands) are working together to produce a critical reader on Wikipedia and to build a Wikipedia Knowledge Network. Under the title CPOV (Critical Point of View), we propose two events that bring together different perspectives, approaches, experiences and stories that critically explore different questions and concerns around Wikipedia. The proceedings from these two events will result in a reader that consolidates critical points of view about Wikipedia.

Themes: Wiki Theory, Wikipedia and Critique of Western Knowledge Production, Wiki Art, Designing Debate, Critique of Free and Open, Global Politics of Exclusion, The Place of Resistance, Wikipedia and Education.

Critical Point of View: WikiWars | 12 - 13 January 2010 | Bangalore, India
Location: The Bangalore International Centre, The Energy and Resources Institute, 4th Main, Domlur II Stage, Bangalore - 560 071 Karnataka.

Speakers: Geert Lovink, Rut Jesus, Anne Goldenberg, Shunling Chen, Stuart Geiger, Beatriz Martins, Dipti Kulkarni, Mark Graham, Phillip Schmidt, Alok Nandi, Dror Kamir, Asha Achuthan, Linda Gross, Heather Ford, Elad Wieder, Nathaniel Tkacz, Sunil Abraham, Usha Raman, Roy Krovel, Ivan Martinez, Nupoor Rawal, Srikiet Tadepalli, Tejaswini Niranjana, Nishant Shah, William Buetler, Eric Ilya Lee, Anas Tawileh, Yi-Ping Tsou, Amie Parry, Johanna Niesyto, Eric Zimmerman, Stian Haklev, Anja Kovacs, Isaac Mao, Scott Kildall, Nathaniel Stern, Rut Jesus, Anne Goldenberg, Shai Herdia.

Registration is now open at: http://www.cis-india.org/research/conferences/conference-blogs/wikwarsreg
WikiWars is going to be documented on video. Videos will be available on the CPOV weblog by the beginning of February. http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/cpov/
More information:
http://www.cis-india.org/events/wikiwars
http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/cpov/program/bangalore/time-table/

Critical Point of View Conference | 26 - 27 March 2010 | Amsterdam
Location: Public Library Amsterdam, Oosterdokskade 143, Amsterdam

Speakers: Ramon Reichert, Jeanette Hofman, Mathieu O’Neil, Joseph Reagle, Charles van den Heuvel, Dan O’Sullivan, Alan Shaprio, Scott Kildall, Patrick Lichty, Richard Rogers, Andrew Famigletti, Teemu Mikkonen, Mayo Fuster, Athina Karatzogianni, and more.

More information and CPOV news: http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/cpov/

Just got an article published this Dec. 23rd 2009. A nice way to close 2009 and work on 2010. Thank you Cluster, a magazine in Torino about City, Design, Innovation.

Article on Cluster

January 12th and 13th 2010 will be Bengaluru days to exchange about Wikipedia and ideas, knowledge, power, representation, ethics and aesthetics. Alok Nandi will be one of the speakers there.

“The Wikipedia has emerged as the de facto global reference of dynamic knowledge. Different stakeholders – Wikipedians, users, academics, researchers, gurus of Web 2.0, publishing houses and governments have entered into fierce debates and discussions about what the rise of Wikipedia and Wiki cultures means and how they influence the information societies we live in. The Wikipedia itself has been at the centre of much controversy, pivoted around questions of accuracy, anonymity, vandalism, expertise and authority.
The Centre for Internet and Society (Bangalore, India) and the Institute of Network Cultures (Amsterdam, Netherlands) are working together to produce a critical Reader on Wikipedia and to build a Wikipedia Knowledge Network. Under the rubric CPOV, we propose two events that bring together different perspectives, approaches, experiences and stories that critically explore different questions and concerns around Wikipedia. The proceeds from these two events will result in a Reader that consolidates critical points of view about Wikipedia.”

Read more http://cis-india.org/research/conferences/wikiwars