Local Food, Local Homes: Pop-Up Restaurant by REcentre
From the 17th of August until the 4th of September chef Nora Rödner prepares a threecourse menu with local ingredients in the Pop-Up restaurant Local Food, Local Homes of REcentre. This temporary restaurant is hosted in a wooden pavilion that is designed by Maurer United Architects and is situated next to the Timmerfabriek in Maastricht (NL).
Dinner starts at 7 pm for 30 euro p/p (including drinks) and places are limited to 20 persons per evening. For further informations and bookings, visit the REcentre website.
Sustainable Summer School: a unique collaboration of REcentre and Institute without Boundaries
From 19 – 25 August 2011 REcentre organises a summer school on sustainable design together with the renowned Institute without Boundaries (Toronto, Canada). It involves a seven day course, aiming to provide participants with new insights via an intensive curriculum in the field of sustainability and design. The Institute without Boundaries’ faculty join forces with Euregional lecturers to accompany the participants. The programme has an interdisciplinary design approach. The Sustainable Summer School is targeted at designers, students, teachers and enthusiasts of all possible backgrounds. Three site specific case studies will be tackled: Public Space (Liège, B), Food (Maastricht, NL) and Water (Hasselt, B) sharing the common theme of ‘Identity’.
For more info and registration, see: www.recentre.org/sustainablesummerschool or mail to: info@recentre.org
Also, check out the online presentation:
Sustainability@School 2010-2011: register now!
REcentre repeats the school projects around new, relevant, and sustainable themes. Therefore REcentre created two interesting pitches in which students can take part of.
Pitch 1: Les Ardentes 7.2, 18.2 and 25.2.
Les Ardentes is a 4-days festival, which takes place every early summer in Liège. It is a middle size event with an expected audience of 70.000 for its sixth edition of 2011 (26.000 in 2006). Students are challenged to find practical outcomes that are feasible to implement on how to make a festival like this have a smaller environmental impact.
Pitch 2: Dingens Barometers 4.3, 18.3 and 11.4.
Dingens Barometers produces internationally renowned barometers. As mercury is being prohibited in the production of barometers, they had to find other sustainable solutions. Dingens wants to challenge students to find a way on how to use sustainability and sustainable products as a unique selling point and add power to the marketing force of it. The barometer is an ‘old-fashioned’ instrument that is being passed on from generation to generation, how can you fit it in in contemporary living rooms and market it as a sustainable instrument?
Students are urged to find practical solutions that are feasible to implement. They will get help of professional moderators and specialists in order to reach these results. Each workshop day will led by a moderated and an expert. Students will be mixed in groups of different people coming from around the Meuse-Rhine Euregion. The winning team of each pitch will get a price.
More info on both pitches can be found here
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Sustainability@School is a collaboration between REcentre, Saint-Luc, MADfac, GutRosenberg & ABKMaastricht.