Muriel Rukeyzer

• Helsinki Design Week – Sept. 14th 2012, at 11 am, Old Customs Warehouse
• Brussels Design September – Sept. 24th 2012 at 18:30, Espace Bizarre

DOT – DesignOpenTable // informal conversation about form and much more

Devised by Alok Nandi, Architempo, DesignOpenTable is a place to explore the multiple dimensions of design, beyond the approaches usually given to the word design. Interaction Design, Service Design, Experience Design, Strategic Design, … are actual praxis occupying thousands of people in the world and showing how design, a set of (often) human-centered activities, can help shape systems for well-being, in connection to how technologists, scientists, … collaborate with.

• on July 17th at 22:00 at Théâtre des Doms and
• on July 18th at 18:00 at the Conservatoire,

with :

The second edition of the EDF Sustainable Design Challenge is officially launched under the motto « Encouraging responsible energy behaviour for better living ». The EDF Sustainable Design Challenge focuses on the materialization of day-to-day energy efficient solutions for a better quality of life. The idea is to foster prospective projects that promote new sustainable behaviours. The selected projects will be displayed during major international events, starting with the London Olympic and Paralympic Games 2012 – the world’s second communication event.

Context

In 2003, various international experts highlighted that world primary energy consumption might double between the years 2000 and 2050. This forecast took several factors into account, including demographical changes, technical innovations, regulation police evolutions, etc.

Regardless of whether the energy is required for industrial, transportation or construction purposes, the mix of production solutions will be very different in 40 years. While non-renewable fossil fuels (coal, gas and petrol) are depleting rapidly, there are important developments in the area of renewable energy production (solar energy, water power, wind power, geothermal power…). Combined with nuclear power, it is estimated that all the existing production solutions will represent only more than half of our overall energy requirements by 2050.

For the remaining energy requirements, now is the time for action!

This Challenge invites you to imagine and develop new innovative scenarios that would encourage responsible energy behaviour for better living, with the goal to lower our energy consumption and/or provide new energy sources.

In this context, EDF and the French Design Promotion Association (APCI) are collaborating to set up a core group of Challenge Leaders from different countries and different skills expertise. These Challenge Leaders are invited to set up multidisciplinary teams to propose and work on the specific key issues of their choice during the Challenge.

• Jean-Xavier de Lestrade, Président de la SCAM
• Alok Nandi, Président du Comité belge de la SCAM
• Alain Longuet, président de la Commission des Arts numériques de la SCAM Paris

ont le plaisir de vous inviter à une rencontre avec Don Foresta
> le lundi 11 juin à 20h00 au Petit Théâtre Mercelis
Pour sa dernière soirée de la saison, la SCAM propose de revenir sur 40 ans de création avec un auteur multimédia qui fut pionnier de l’art vidéo.

Jeune diplômé en Histoire des Etats-Unis, Don Foresta intègre les services diplomatiques américains et dirige notamment le Centre culturel américain de Paris. A partir de 1976, il s’immerge totalement dans l’univers de la création en réseaux. Il en sera un des pionniers, favorisant sans cesse les échanges artistiques et culturels internationaux (Artistes en Réseau, Café Electronique, Laboratoire de Langage Electronique, MARCEL, Global Thread, une Faculté virtuelle…). Auteur multimedia s’il en est, Don Foresta cultive une approche généreuse et visionnaire des outils numériques. Retour sur 40 ans de création.

“During periods of radical change the total intellectual and creative energies of humanity, expressed in art and science, become mobilized in the search for new exits from the impasse.  It can be said that such periods demand a rapprochement between these two poles of knowledge.  The result is that we find ourselves in a particularly interesting moment in history, accompanied by extreme difficulty as witnessed by our past history, but demanding and exciting in its potential.”

Lieu: Petit Théâtre Mercelis, rue Mercelis, 13 à Ixelles
Date: le 11 juin 2012 à 20h – la projection sera suivie par un drink
Entrée Libre merci d’annoncer votre présence
La rencontre se déroulera en français
Information: Action culturelle SACD-SCAM – avanweddingen #AT# sacd-scam.be

Catalan Region Office, Rue de la Loi 227, 1000 Bruxelles

(for description of content and structure of the programme, click here)

It is dedicated to TRANSMEDIA NARRATIVES, a new form of storytelling that is revolutionizing video production, artistic creation, digital entertainment, education, and even movements for social change: stories that spread and diversify across different media and audiovisual media, social networks, games, websites, comics, mobile platforms, and even real-life experiences. These projects generate separate narrative universes that allow users to interact in the co-creation and distribution of stories, share knowledge and enjoy new experiences.

Alok Nandi is one of the speakers there. Madrid, see you ! I will be a.o. connecting shared storytelling and co-creation narrative modes …

More via the Transmedia Living Lab Telefonica website.

About creating transmedia, the difference between transmedia narratives and other forms of storytelling will be established. Also, new creative and production models, and new funding strategies and transmedia content distribution will be discussed.
In addition, special attention will be paid to the emergence of new professional profiles in the different phases of creation, development and commercialization of transmedia content and to the emerging markets that are generating these new transmedia universes.