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Premsela design forum @ Milan Design Week

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At a Premsela design forum in Milan on 22 April, prominent figures in the field will discuss the value of an alternative to recyling: repair.

Speakers including designers Piet Hein Eek and Satyendra Pakhalé, Hermès director of innovations Corinne Poux-Bernard, and Platform21 artistic director Joanna van der Zanden will share their views on the value of repair in the context of the global economic crisis. Author Marco Bevolo will moderate the discussion. Dutch Culture Minister Ronald Plasterk will introduce the event.

Held during Milan design week, the Premsela Design Forum takes Platform21’s current project, Platform21 = Repairing, as a point of departure. Platform21’s Repair Manifesto has been receiving attention in the media, and 20,000 copies will be distributed in Milan.

The forum will take place in Milan’s Romeo Gigli Café, which will also host exhibitions by ArtEZ and the Design Academy Eindhoven.

A photo (by Leo Veger) of my repaired Thonet chair is used to promote this event. Nice.

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Posted in Events, Media on April 20th, 2009 | No Comments »

Aanmoedigingsprijs 2009

Today I was nominated for the ‘Aanmoedigingsprijs 2009′  in Deventer!

The Aanmoedigingsprijs is a biennial award, presented to local creative talent. The nominees have to show recent artistic development and their output needs to have significant cultural value for the city of Deventer. The winner of the Aanmoedigingsprijs receives 2000 euro.

Other nominees are: Yael Bonekamp (visual artist) and Mariska de Groot (whisper poetry).

Posted in Media on March 8th, 2009 | 8 Comments »

Old dj-set

This morning during breakfast I listened to a recording of one of my more laidback dj-sets back in 2005. Still a very nice set! And it just so happens to be still online at VPRO 3voor12. The link is on the top of this page. So click-click and enjoy…

Posted in Cette Truc, Media on September 11th, 2008 | 2 Comments »

VPRO Café Sonore: Motors of Invention

Last Saturday (September 6, 21:00 hrs.) there was a special four hour radio broadcast of VPRO’s Café Sonore about Motors of Invention on Radio 6. That is national radio. You can still listen to it overhere in four sessions of an hour (don’t know how long the stream will stay up there, so be quick).

Amongst many other very interesting performances and interviews, this radio broadcast features a recording of Alan Purves playing my Rockin’ Chair. You can listen to it in the fourth hour. Comments on this show are by Lukas Simonis, who is a guest in the studio.

Motors Of Invention was a series of concerts, films and demonstrations in Worm, spread out over the month December in 2007, in which the creators of self invented instruments play a central role. Motors Of Invention was curated by Lukas Simonis, Pierre Bastien and Peter Taylor.

Posted in Media on September 7th, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Tonight on Folio

Tonight (November 7), Robert Witt features in another Folio broadcast on Radio 6. The same show also features Cluster (Dieter Moebius and Hans-Joachim Roedelius) and Carte Postale, a great label from Belgium. On the same day Cluster performs live in Tivoli, Utrecht. Check this page for more info.

Kr////, one of Robert Witt’s tracks is also up for listening on Kwadratuur, where his album Ssri (out on esc.rec.) received a very good review earlier.

Posted in Media on November 7th, 2007 | No Comments »