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Call for projects

Projects Round Table

Doors of Perception 9 takes place in New Delhi 28 February to 4 March 2007. The theme is Juice: Food, Energy, Design.

The Round Table part of Doors 9 is now full, but there are places left for the main conference on Saturday 3 March.

We are leaving details of the Call for the Round Table online so others can see what it's about. We published a call for participants whose project raises interesting design issues in relation to:
* Food information systems (food miles, energy use, GMOs);
* Localisation of food systems (Community Supported Agriculture);
* Urban farming (rooftop, vertical…);
* Sustainable packaging and distribution;
* Slow food using high tech;
* Long-distance foods that are OK (beer recipes, acorns...)

New forms of community cooking (meal assembly centres);
* Agritourism;
* Street food.

We asked proposers to send us an email in answer to these six questions:
* 1) Why? = the main question being asked by the project
* 2) Who are the actors/partners?
* 3) Where? (the locality or situaton)
* 4) What are the desired outcomes/results of the project?
* 5) When (timeframe)?
* 6) How can the Round Table help? What problem, challenge or dilemma does the project face, that the assembled experts can help you with?

More than 50 project proposals were received. These were reviewed by: Aditya Dev Sood, Centre for Knowledge Societies (CKS); Debra Solomon, culiblog.org; Juha Huuskonen, PixelAche; Amy Franseschini, futurefarmers; John Thackara, Doors of Perception.

The projects (and people) we invited to join the Round able are being profiled (it's an ongoing process!) here.

Posted by Kristi at January 15, 2007 01:20 PM