Archive for 2006

Destination 2006/2026

Saturday, December 16th, 2006

The SEP team is happy to inform you of the publication of “A Guidebook for SEP Exhibition at Eco-Product 2006 in Tokyo” in occasion of “Destination 2006/2026″, a two days international design conference on sustainability organized by the Ecodesign Institute the 14 and 15 December in Tokyo.

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Bombay 7/7 in Lille, France

Thursday, December 14th, 2006

As of Dec. 14th, the in situ and interactive installation “MAAD” by Alok b. Nandi can be seen everyday till January 14th in the exhibition “Bombay Maximum City”, in the lille3000 India Festival. This first version of the installation - looking at “mariages arrangés, amoureux, dérangés” as a social construct in urban setting - is […]

On Radio

Sunday, December 3rd, 2006

As of the week-end of Dec. 2 & 3, Alok Nandi is proposing a weekly chronicle on Paris-based Radio BFM, in the program Inde Hebdo, on books and literature. This is broadcasted twice a week and can also be accessed via podcast.
More on Radio BFM Inde Hebdo

Avec 1,11 milliard d’habitants, l’Inde abrite 20% de la […]

Cahiers du Cinema

Thursday, November 30th, 2006

A piece by Alok Nandi is published in Cahiers du Cinema, where he speaks about his meeting with the film maker Satyajit Ray, in 1990, and he is sharing the “Cinematheque Imaginaire” Ray gave him.
This will be the base of an interactive application on Cinematheque Imaginaire, in French, and later in English.

SEP 2.0 on line

Tuesday, October 24th, 2006

Architempo is actively busy with the 2.0 version of the SEP platform

The Sustainable Everyday Project (SEP) proposes an open web platform to stimulate social conversation on possible sustainable futures…
The SEP network is organized around 3 core activities.

The promotion of a Scenarios laboratory where new visions of sustainable everyday life are proposed and discussed.

The constitution of […]

Le Fresnoy

Tuesday, October 24th, 2006

This 25th October, Alok Nandi is giving a talk on parallel cinema in India, looking a.o. at Ritwik Ghatak, Satyajit Ray, Mrinal Sen, …
at Le Fresnoy, an art school close to Lille, North of France. On 21st, he was moderating a debate with documentarist Anand Patwardhan.

Catalogue of books on India in French

Tuesday, October 17th, 2006

Electre, a reference database of books in French, and Architempo, design agency, with a focus on information architecture, are partnering to launch a catalogue of books on India in French. Authors can be of any nationality or origin, as long as books cover topics related to India.

The catalogue is on mahanet.com/biblio

As the on-line catalogue is […]

In situ and interactive installation in Lille, France

Tuesday, October 17th, 2006

This in situ and interactive installation takes place from October 14th to January 14th in the exhibition “Bombay Maximum City”, in the lille3000 India Festival. This first version of the installation - looking at “mariages arrangés, amoureux, dérangés” as a social construct in urban setting - is showing the dynamics of communities in this megapolis, […]

Conferences in lille3000

Tuesday, October 17th, 2006

Alok Nandi is speaking on

October 25, at Le Fresnoy: on Indian cinema, with Ghatak, Ray, Sen, and the others … about parallel cinema (art et essai)

November 18th, in Maison Folie Moulin: a cyberpanel on diaspora and media art

December 7, in Lille Bibliothèque: a conference fiction on F. B. Solvyns, paintings and etchings of Calcutta’s 18th […]

lille3000 opening

Monday, October 16th, 2006

The India Festival had its launch this October 14th: 150 000 persons in the city of Lille.
The programme is on for three months.
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