*******Design to Feed the World exhibition at Fabbrica del Vapore
June 6 – 30, 2015*******
The conference hosted
– Cumulus Working Groups (thorughout the conference),
– New Members Fair (June 3, 2015),
– General Assembly of Cumulus (June 6, 2015).
Key note speakers
– Chiara Alessi, design curator and critic
– Odo Fioravanti, industrial designer
– Patricia Urquiola, architect, designer, Ambassador of EXPO Milan 2015
– Banny Banerjee, founder and director of the Stanford ChangeLabs
Conference description
THE EXPO 2015 THEME:
Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life
http://www.expo2015.org/en
THE EXPO 2015 SUBTHEMES
Improving food quality and security: the security of having enough food to live on, and an assurance that the food is healthy and the water drinkable;
Ensuring healthy and high-quality nutrition for all human beings, doing away with the hunger, drought, infantile mortality, and malnutrition that still afflict 850 million people on this planet, and extirpating famine and pandemic disease;
Preventing the new epidemics and diseases of our time, including obesity, cardiovascular disease, and cancer, by championing practices that have proven to be effective;
Promoting innovation in research, technology, and business practices along the entire food supply chain to improve the nutritional value, conservation, and distribution of foods;
Providing education in proper nutrition and encouraging more healthy lifestyles, especially among children, adolescents, the disabled, and the elderly;
Enhancing the value of cultural and ethnic heritage as expressed in culinary traditions.
CONFERENCE THEME:
THE VIRTUOUS CIRCLE OF DESIGN CULTURE AND EXPERIMENTATION
IF Design has the specificity to adopt a cultural approach besides the functional or technological ones,
THAN it must also have its own specific culture: e.g. the construction of scenarios, trial&error methods, self-commissioned researches…
