Doors of Perception Report
Quick scan of design and innovation
September 2006
By John Thackara
DOORS OF PERCEPTION 9 on "JUICE" (FOOD, FUEL, DESIGN)
A] CALL FOR PROJECT CASE STUDIES
Doors of Perception 9 takes place in New Delhi 28 February to 4 March 2006.
The theme is "Juice: Food, Fuel, Design". Doors 9 begins with a two-day
Project Leaders Round Table that is limited to 50 participants. This is
followed by an open-to-all one day conference at India Habitat Centre,
plus a Social Technologies Bazaar, on Saturday 3 March. For the Round
Table, we are looking for sixteen 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;
- New forms of community cooking (meal assembly centres);
- Agritourism;
- Street food.
Your project proposals will be 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. 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?
Send your project description email (Subject header: "juice project")
to: editor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
B] OPEN PROGRAMME
A one-day conference on Saturday 3 March, in the India Habitat Centre,
will address the key issues to do with food, fuel and design. The
results of the Round Table will be presented. And a social technologies
bazaar will provide poarticipants with a show-and-tell opportunity.
Conference participants are invited to the Doors Holi Party the
following day.
C] HOW TO WIN A FREE TRIP TO DOORS 9
Doors has teamed up with the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) and Designs of
the time (Dott07) to offer travel-included scholarships to Doors 9. The
scholarships are for up to eight winning teams in the 2006-2007 RSA
Design Directions competition. Dott 07 has set two themes – on food
information systems, and sustainable tourism. All you have to do is win.
Details at:
http://www.rsadesigndirections.org/dott07.html
http://www.dott07.com/go/education/dott-rsa-design-directions
D] LIMITED EDITION PACKAGE DEAL FOR DOORS 9
For those not eligible to compete in Design Directions, we can offer a
limited number of all-in packages comprising flight, registration,
accomodation and food for the whole Doors 9 week, for 1,000 euros. To be
eligible for this package, we must receive your project proposal by
Friday 29 September (which is when our cheap flights expire).