BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:NingEventWidget-v1 VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:19700329T010000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:19701025T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2381489:Event:6862 DTSTAMP:20120530T191759Z SUMMARY:Cumulus Shanghai Conference 2010 DESCRIPTION:Young Creators for Better City and Better Life\n\nHannah J ones and Rachel Wingfield will be presenting a paper about MetaboliCit y under the theme of Sustainability and Social Innovation at the Cumul us Shanghai Conference in September 2010, as part of the Shanghai Worl d Expo 2010 and Shanghai Biennale.\n\nThe conference will explore wher e and how a young generation of designers can, through their talents a nd responsibility, improve our environment and life in a creative way. The missions and visions of design education, design research and pra ctice for young creators, together with the economic, political and so cial impacts will also be discussed during the conference.\n\nThe conf erence is organized into the following subthemes:\n- Create for Sustai nability & Social Innovation\n- Renaissance of local wisdom in globali zation\n- Activate the conversation between old & young\n- Redefine th e social-economic roles of design discipline\n\nAbstract:\n\nMetaboliC ity: How can design support the cultivation of place in the city?\n\nA s part of the sustainability agenda there is growing interest and re-v aluing of the importance of localized food production in cities such a s London. This paper presents the findings from a one-year (October 20 08 – October 2009) participatory design research project entitled †˜MetaboliCity’. This project explored how designers can intervene se nsitively within local urban food growing communities by providing a d esign thinking and crafting to help to sustain these initiatives and c atalyse larger positive changes in the surrounding environment. The pr oject was based at Central St. Martins in London, UK, facilitated by t he design research group Loop.pH and funded by the Audi Design Foundat ion.\n\nThe aim of the project was to create, test and adapt a customi zable urban grow-kit at a selection of sites in London. A design team guided local participants through a collaborative set of envisioning, crafting, planting and documenting processes. A metadesign approach wa s adopted to manage the complexity of such a task. Metadesign is a sys temic, multi-disciplinary and emergent design process aimed at transce nding existing specialist boundaries to create more joined-up solution s for the benefit of society and nature.\n\nThis paper will introduce the project outcomes, a set of design tools and approaches to nurture ‘knowledge ecology’ between designers, experts and different commu nities of food growers in the city and support the cultivation of plac e.\n(H. Jones)\n\nFor more information visit http://www.metabolicity.c om/events/cumulus-shanghai-conference DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20100906T000000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20100909T235900 CATEGORIES:conference LOCATION:China WEBSITE:http://www.cumulus2010tongji.org URL:http://www.cumulus2010tongji.org CONTACT: ORGANIZER:School of Design Innovation, CAUP Tongji University ATTACH;FMTTYPE="image/jpeg":http://api.ning.com:80/files/o1EgWfsW35diw kikHXo1zh3xixJiyw73Os-UYPiB-G0lW9DFjIANeUTp2rZeYap3snRRFsLVeuSuNhyEFZX 4mHFmE4J3eAYg/Screenshot20100516at13.13.33.png ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Rachel W ingfield":http://www.metabolicity.com/profile/RachelWingfield END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR