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Food Design Brunch

Thursday, September 18th, 2008

The first edition of Design Brunch at Museumcafé in Brussels is taking place on 21st of Sept.
Are joining the conversation Fernand David (initiator of the MuseumCafé with Peter Goossens, a 3 stars chef), Antoine Pinto (architect, painter, ex-chef, …) and Maja Kuzmanovic (Fo.am initiator and generalist) and the audience ! See you on Sunday […]

Pecha Kucha - {creativity*conversation}

Wednesday, November 21st, 2007

The Pecha Kucha Brussels premiere was a real-life “experience” about {creativity*conversation}, and did attract the audience - venue was full full full. Thanks to you all for being there, the speakers did a great job, thanks to the partners for the in-kind support (see partners tab on the top of the page of pechakucha.architempo.net/brussels) and […]

300+ Pecha Kucha

Saturday, November 17th, 2007

This Nov. 20th is the premiere of Pecha Kucha Brussels.
More than 300 persons have registered [double vs. expectation].
It is spreading …
Stay tuned and check http://pechakucha.architempo.net

Utopie & Utopisme

Friday, September 21st, 2007

Alok Nandi just convened the conference by Prof. Raymond Trousson at Mundaneum, Mons, Belgium, where they talked a.o. about the difference between “utopie” and “utopisme”. It was all in French:
Sciences, techniques et bonheur, de l’utopie à l’anti-utopie
Par Raymond Trousson, Professeur émérite de l’Université Libre de Bruxelles
Dans le cadre de l’exposition “Utopia, de l’Atlantide aux cités […]

Open Sauces

Sunday, September 9th, 2007

Open Sauces : on food and coding.
Demystifying the production, distribution, presentation and consumption of food in a degustation dinner, with matched artists, including Kate Rich, Stevie Wishart, Femke Snelting, Alok Nandi and others.

Alok Nandi will talk about Fresh Food Frozen Cities, which was launched in Delhi in March 2007, as part of Taltala […]

Pecha Kucha

Tuesday, July 10th, 2007

Alok Nandi is launching Pecha Kucha Night Brussels.

What does “Pecha Kucha” mean ?
More on http://pechakucha.architempo.net

Pecha Kucha, a Japanese expression for the sound of conversation, is a series of show and tell evenings for designers, architects, artists, creatives, … started by Klein Dytham Architecture in Tokyo.

Since 2003, groups have sprung up in cities all over the […]

Radio Chronicles

Saturday, June 30th, 2007

These last seven months, Alok Nandi was giving a weekly radio chronicle for Paris-based radio BFM, in the programme “IndeHebdo”, covering “books and India”, in French: fiction and non-fiction, essays, design, … all genres … One way was to look at narratives and storytelling for systems design, or in other words “experience design” [non […]

Fresh Food, Frozen City

Tuesday, May 8th, 2007

“Fresh Food, Frozen City” was one of the topic presented by Alok Nandi, at Doors of Perception in March 2007 in Delhi. It raises many themes connected to innovation, emergence, design, narrative, …
Interventions are in development. Today’s hype jargon would label these City 2.0, Food 2.0.
For more information, you can get in touch with Alok […]

MIT Cambridge, overlooking Boston

Wednesday, April 25th, 2007

Alok Nandi is speaking on April 27th at MIT, in “Cambridge, overlooking Boston,” in the Media in Transition conference, in the session
Authorship and Network Culture
with
_ Lanfranco Aceti, Displaced Commentaries, Multiple Artifices and Many Authors?
_ Jessica Hammer, Traditional, Collaborative and Mixed Forms of Authorship
_ Alok Nandi, From Hyperfiction to Extrafiction
_ Jon Saklofske, The Necessity of […]

Media in Transition

Friday, April 13th, 2007

Media in Transition
International Conference
April 27-29, 2007
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Creativity, ownership and collaboration in the digital age

Our understanding of the technical and social processes by which culture is made and reproduced is being challenged and enlarged by digital technologies. An emerging generation of media producers is sampling and remixing existing materials as core ingredients […]