Sustainable Design and Production with Chris Rose & James Tijou

[Louis Loizou]

Interviews of: Chris Rose, for 14 years Course Leader for the Wood, Metals, Ceramics & Plastics design program at Brighton University and also a visiting professor at the Rhode Island school of Design (RISD) now concentrating on practise based research in the UK, USA, Nordic region & South India - key issues are looking for more sustainable relationships rather than the unsustainable mass consumer model;

James Tijou who began as an engineer in business, moved on to start a national fund-raising alternative, and is now running a business manufacturing wood framed windows from sustainable forests in Romania, employing local labour at a fair wage in a proper health & safety working environment - 20% of profits will be put into Romanian NGOs and with the rest he hopes to fund an advanced Internet portal which will put into practice new ways of involving people in local issues and eventually national decision making, as in the model successfully pioneered by Agosto Boal in Brazil.

LINKS AND RESOURCES
http://www.srishti.ac.in/ SRISHTI college of Art Design and Technology

http://wasteforlife.org/ engineering and social justice)
http://www.dailydump.org/ (make waste useful)

http://www.eamesfoundation.org/concern for quality
http://www.nid.edu/aboutus_eamesreport.htm NID – India Report
http://dm.risd.edu/?p=143 Digital+Media at RISD
http://www.brighton.ac.uk/arts/research/“Five Essays on Design” (Look up "Rose" to download PDF) http://cetld.brighton.ac.uk/projects/current-projects/indian_manufacturing
Indian Manufacturing Project

http://www.ted.com/ TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. Since then its scope has become ever broader. Click on Global Issues on left for matters in the context of World Family and Vision Shack

http://www.prospecjoinery.co.uk James Tijou's site is now up and running - wood-framed sustainable windows as described in Vision Shack 2 & a business that employs Romanians fairly and will fund Romanian projects as well as James' Internet Portal in the future. Please also note that James' activities at the Cowley Club will not commence just yet as he is only 5 or 6 months into business start-up, but watch this space for further news if you need help of an organisational nature.

http://www.indigoeye.co.uk/
Garima (Sitar player program 2) member of a local fusion band
http://www.myspace.com/benkonstantinovic Gifted young local guitarist who ended December 07 show...
http://www.myspace.com/bensolomon Exceptional local Composer/Pianist who began December 07 show... I have seen him live and it is an experience. Ben Solomon is a composer of original piano music. His track 'One Way Day' is featured on the covermount CD distributed with 'Pianist' magazine in Feb 2008, alongside works by Chopin, Liszt and Scarlatti. This is only the second time that the prestigious 'Pianist' (pianistmagazine.com) has chosen to so honour a contemporary classical composer. The first was Michael Nyman. 'One Way Day' is from Ben's second CD 'Mad Hatter Days', released this week via discovery-records.com.The suite for solo piano was recorded on the Yamaha C3 grand piano in the historic Friends Meeting House, Ship St, in Ben's hometown of Brighton. Ben performs there and other venues in Brighton fairly regularly.