Archive for the 'design' Category

Helsinki Design Lab

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

Alok Nandi is invited to participate in the Helsinki Design Lab.

Helsinki Design Lab 23.-25.6.2008

Many businesses and societies with aging populations and growing environmental challenges have recently confronted a new challenge: How to create more value with less resources? In this situation, the conventional ‘technology push’ model and traditional industrial design do not suffice any more. […]

INDIAinFLUX

Monday, June 9th, 2008

An exhibition on India & Design at the Saint-Étienne International Design Biennial, November 2008 -
more soon … stay tuned …

Pecha Kucha - {creativity*conversation}

Monday, May 19th, 2008

The 4th evening of Pecha Kucha Night Brussels is taking place on May 20th, at iMAL.
More on http://pechakucha.architempo.net

Speakers planned on May 20, 2008, are
_ Moniek Darge, Music boxes, soundsculptures, audio art
_ Jean-luc Doumont, Principiae - Structuring thoughts
_ Jacqueline Ezman, Idiz Bogam, Fashion & Vintage
_ Henri Jacobs, Painter
_ Tom Lenaerts, Cellular Pecha Kucha - Biological Sciences
_ […]

Analogous Spaces

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

David Vanderburgh, Unité d’Architecture et d’Ingénierie architecturale, Université Catholique de Louvain la Neuve, and Alok Nandi will speak about “Urban exhibitionism, or representing the recalcitrant city”, reflecting on an exhibition they worked on in 2006/07.

ANALOGOUS SPACES - INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE
GHENT UNIVERSITY - 14-17 MAY 2008
Analogous Spaces refers to the fact that every […]

Framing Ethico-Aesthetics - ICA London

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

Institute of Contemporary Arts, London. Nash Room.
Monday 28th April 2008,
Seminar Workshop: 2 pm-6 pm

This event aims to investigate the relationship between the aesthetic and the ethic in human sociality that allows us to treat each other with trust, respect and dignity, and ask “how can it be, or how is it, embedded within art, […]

Hybride Stad

Friday, April 11th, 2008

Giving a talk about “Cuisine as Design, Design as Cuisine” in the symposium Hybride Stad, taking place in Genk on 18th of April. A publication will come out after some days.

Program and more info on experiency.be

Cuisine as design :: Design as cuisine
If ‘design’ allows ‘transformation of existing conditions into preferred ones’ (Herbert Simon), ‘cuisine’ is […]

Inde & Design

Monday, March 31st, 2008

India & Design - two terrains put together
for an exhibition … more soon …

Pecha Kucha Brussels Vol.03

Friday, March 21st, 2008

The 3rd evening of Pecha Kucha Night Brussels attracted again a large audience !
The 4th is planned on May 20th.
Updates will be on http://pechakucha.architempo.net

2008 ahead

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

2008 for Alok Nandi :
_ April, talk about “Food & Design”, in Genk School of Design & Art
_ April, participating in a TV programme about Indian Cinema and Bollywood, on RTBf
_ May, invited speaker with D. Vanderburgh, professor at ARCHI LLN, in “Analogous Spaces” Gent conference
_ June, in Helsinki, design workshop, insight + […]

Orientable n8

Monday, March 17th, 2008

working on the design of a series of “real” physical objects after many years in virtual scapes.
More soon … it is la série n8 Orientable …