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Heading to Singapore Design Festival.
It takes place Nov. 20 to 30, 2009.
Giving a talk at LASALLE College of the Arts about storytelling and design.
Registration via www.narrative.architempo.net

Brussels Bozar will be the place and the “Palace” for the 10th Pecha Kucha Night, in connection with Post-Flux, looking at digital in all senses and meanings. See you there.
It takes place on Nov. 6, 7 & 8, at Bozar.
Line-up and registration via www.pechakucha.architempo.net
Post-Flux programme via www.post-flux.architempo.net

- Oct. 14th at Cité du Design in St-Etienne France, launching the Pecha Kucha Night there
- Oct. 15th at the Oslo School of Architecture & Design, talking about narrative and mixed realities
- Oct. 19th around Brugge, giving a talk about “Bitterness in food - design and rituals”
- Nov. 6, 7 and 8th, Post-Flux at Bozar Brussels
- Nov. 20th at Singapore LASALLE College of Arts, speaking about narrative design - part of Singapore Design Festival

See you may be and more txt, twt and links soon …

2009-2010 will see the first series of Ignite events, focused on themes.
More soon - watch this space.

Sept-Oct-Nov 2009 is active. See you at:

- Energy Efficiency Workshop, by Crosstalks VUB, on Sept. 11, 2009 in Brussels
- Pecha Kucha Night Brussels, by Architempo, during Design September, at Recylart, on Sept. 19, 2009
- Design Brunch, by Architempo, during Design September, at Recylart, on Sept. 20, 2009
- Post-Flux in Bozar Brussels, Nov. 6, 7 and 8, 2009: a forum on interaction, art, design, incl. rights, technologies, writings

Why “Indian Summer” then ? Get in touch

Alok Nandi is attending this seminar and also at the Copenhagen Design Week, incl. INDEX:Awards a.o.

Copenhagen Co’creation Seminar: Designing for Change
Sunday, August 30, 2009 from 10 am – 5:30 pm at Pressen, Rådhuspladsen 37, København V.

In times of turbulence, we need to think and act from a new perspective. We need to solve complex problems, collaborate in new ways, tell new stories and change the game of innovation. We need to design for change.

At the Copenhagen Co’creation Seminar: Designing for Change leading experts, designers and thought leader will tell their stories, participate in workshops and share their visions on how to put forward the significant advantages of co-creation in the midst of the changes and challenges from a new reality of turbulence.

On Sept. 11th 2009, a workshop for those busy with Energy matters.

Announcement:
Attitude, Design & Action: interplay between individual behavior, political will and energy efficient incentives

On Sept 11th, 2009, VUB CROSSTALKS organises its 5th workshop on Energy Efficiency with the wellknown US campaigner Alex Laskey as invited speaker. Alex Laskey is one of President Barack Obama’s personal energy advisors and founder of the American company Positive Energy. “To have a president who is as committed as he is to changing the way we produce and use energy in this country will have terrific implications for us” said Laskey in an interview with the US blog POLITICO after his latest meeting with president Obama in the beginning of July.

The only thing that we get that’s personalized about our home energy use is a bill from the utility. The bill is effectively inscrutable, Alex Laskey and his colleagues reasoned, so they started approaching utility companies with an idea on how to breed a better informed and aware energy customer. The result was a program that grades customers and their consumption habits on a smiley-face scale on their utility bills. On top of that, consumption reports allow customers to see if they are using more or less energy than their neighbours. Companies that implemented the program in the US reported considerable drops in energy consumption. This year Laskey estimates that his company alone will decrease energy consumption by 25 million dollars and that on a national level, there is an opportunity to save 4 to 5 billion dollars.

During his talk, Alex Laskey will elaborate on Positive Energy’s method and impact to engage individual consumers in global and corporate energy saving. The rest of the workshop’s program deals with pilot projects and effective actions on the level of mobility, design and positive economy. Confirmed speakers are: Joeri De Ridder (AVERE, Greenmobil, BE), Jan Van Mol (Addict Lab, BE), Olle Dierks (Interactive Institute, SE). The event will be chaired by Alok Nandi (Founder of Architempo and Pecha Kucha Night Brussels) and Gerrit-Jan Schaeffer (Director of Innovation & Renovation at VITO).

After the workshop, participants get the opportunity to visit the expo Visual Voltage by the Interactive Institute of Sweden at the occasion of Design September 2009.

Partners: Brussels Capital Region, VUB CROSSTALKS, Flanders District of Creativity, VITO, UGENT, IBBT, 3E and BURO.
Event partners: Interactive Institute Sweden, Swedish Embassy in Brussels, Modo Bruxellae and the Sustainable Energy Europe Campaign.
More info and registration on http://crosstalks.vub.ac.be.

PRACTICALITIES - Attitude, Design & Action. From Energy Efficient Pilot Projects to Energy Effective Action.
Date: Friday September 11, 2009. From 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM
Location: De Markten - Oude Graanmarkt 5 Place du Vieux Marché aux Grains – 1000 Brussels
Extra: Visit to the Visual Voltage expo from 2:00 PM – Kanselarijstraat 19, Brussels
Registration (lunch included): fee is 80 euro (general)/20 euro (students and NGO-members). Register online at http://crosstalks.vub.ac.be

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Aankondiging:
Attitude, design & ondernemen: interactie tussen politiek initiatief, individueel gedrag en energie-efficiënte incentives.

Op 11 september 2009 organiseert VUB CROSSTALKS een 5de workshop over energie efficiëntie met de Amerikaanse duurzaamheidsexpert Alex Laskey als gastspreker. Alex Laskey is één van President Obama’s persoonlijke energieconsulenten en medeoprichter van het bedrijf Positive Energy. “To have a president who is as committed as he is to changing the way we produce and use energy in this country will have terrific implications for us” liet Laskey weten in een interview met VS-blog POLITICO na zijn laatste gesprek met Obama in juli.

De enige gepersonaliseerde informatie die wij ontvangen over ons energieverbruik thuis is een moeilijk te doorgronden factuur van het nutsbedrijf, zo stelden Alex Laskey en zijn collega’s vast. Ze ontwikkelden daarop een nieuwe communicatiestrategie voor nutsbedrijven om consumenten meer betrokken en bewust te maken van hun energieverbruik. Het resultaat is een communicatieprogramma dat energieconsumenten en hun verbruiksgewoonten op basis van een smiley-graadmeter evalueert en taxeert. Nieuw is ook dat klanten in het verbruikersoverzicht kunnen zien of zij meer of minder energie verbruiken dan hun buren. Amerikaanse bedrijven die de nieuwe communicatiestrategie implementeerden spreken van een aanzienlijke daling in verbruik. Dit jaar alleen al schat Laskey dat zijn bedrijf een energievermindering ter waarde van 25 miljoen dollar kan realiseren en dat er op nationaal niveau zelfs tot 4 à 5 miljard kan bespaard worden. Laskey zal in zijn lezing de methodologie en impact van zijn bedrijf Positive Economy verder toelichten met de focus op het engagement van de individuele consument in globale en bedrijfsmatige energiebesparingstrajecten.

De workshop biedt verder enkele casestudies en best practices in mobiliteit, design en positieve economie. Bevestigde sprekers zijn Joeri De Ridder (AVERE, Greenmobil, BE), Jan Van Mol (Addict Lab, BE) en Olle Dierks (Interactive Institute, Zweden). Event voorzitters zijn Alok Nandi (stichter van Architempo Design en van de Brusselse Pecha Kucha Nights) en Gerrit-Jan Schaeffer (Directeur innovation & Renovation bij VITO). Na de workshop wordt een bezoek gebracht aan de expo Visual Voltage, georganiseerd door het Zweedse Interactive Institute ter gelegenheid van Design September 2009.

Partners: Brussels Capital Region, VUB CROSSTALKS, Flanders District of Creativity, VITO, UGENT, IBBT, 3E and BURO.
Event partners: Interactive Institute Sweden, Swedish Embassy in Brussels, Modo Bruxellae en the Sustainable Energy Europe Campaign.
Voor meer informatie en registratie: http://crosstalks.vub.ac.be

PRAKTISCH - Attitude, Design & Action. From Energy Efficient Pilot Projects to Energy Effective Action.
Date: Friday September 11, 2009. From 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM
Location: De Markten - Oude Graanmarkt 5 Place du Vieux Marché aux Grains – 1000 Brussels
Extra: Visit to the Visual Voltage expo from 2:00 PM – Kanselarijstraat 19, Brussels
Registration (lunch included): fee is 80 euro (general)/20 euro (students and NGO-members). Register online at http://crosstalks.vub.ac.be

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About Alex Laskey, President, Founder, Positive Energy
Laskey’s expertise is in marketing and policy. Most recently he worked on several statewide ballot measures on environmental issues with the public opinion research and political strategy firm of Fairbank, Maslin, Maullin, and Associates (FMMA). While at FMMA, Laskey provided strategic consulting for The Nature Conservancy, The Trust for Public Land, The League of Conservation Voters, and the Sacramento Area Flood Control Agency. Previously, Laskey managed a high profile campaign for the California State Assembly and ran other local and state campaigns. Laskey has worked in the White House and on two presidential campaigns. Before turning to politics and policy, Laskey worked as the director of new business for The Romann Group, a New York-based advertising agency where he identified, pursued and signed on over $50 million in business from consumer-facing clients including Citibank, Echostar – Dish Network, Priceline, Time Warner Cable, and AT&T.
Alex Laskey received his B.A. in History of Science from Harvard University where he received a Ford Foundation Grant for his research on the environmental history of the American West.

Design Brunch: Culinary & Food Design

If “design” allows the “transformation of existing conditions in better” (Herbert Simon), “cuisine” is an interesting scape, and “food design” an area for the investigation of tastes. Production and consumption are conceptual, physical, experiental, requiring reflection, requesting digestion. It’s like travelling in “foodscapes”.
The first Design Brunch took place during Design September 2008. These conversations, on “food design” at large, allow the audience to talk about the mystery of tastes, the work of chefs, the mechanics of “la fabrique culinaire”, the investigation of flavours, the voyage of spices, …

It takes place on Sept. 20, at Recyclart, during Design September.
Registration via http://designbrunch.architempo.net

Busy preparing a series of events and conversations to explore the “materiality” of digital in art and creative practice.

What design can do in the Agri-food sectors ? A question explored in Zaragoza in a conference looking at innovation and co in Aragon, where filmmaker Bunuel was born …