Amphithéâtre de la Maison MINATEC
Thursday 08 / 03.30 pm > 4.45 pm
Simultaneous translation in French/English
Moderated by
Timothée Silvestre, director at Ideas Laboratory
Kevin Loesle, Project Manager at Limited Resources, Ideas Laboratory
Speakers
Rasa Smite, artist and co-founder at RIXC, Center for Art and Science in Riga (Latvia)
(see Talk to me and Cloud Farming)
Christian Duquennoi, physicist and research engineer at Irstea (National Research Institute for Science and Technology for Environment and Agriculture)
Clément Chabot, in charge of innovation project at Low-Tech Lab
Quentin Caille, cameraman at Collectif_sin~ (voir Les Dreamachines)
“Low-tech” puts forward simple, accessible and sustainable solutions as a response to basic needs: water, food and energy. It follows the principle of frugal innovation; to do better with less. Artistic procedures have always involved reusing or altering everyday objects, ie. Dada movement. Today, low-tech has an ecological dimension with the aim to reduce its impacts on consumer society. It also has various dimensions depending on the territory; designing “low-tech” in Africa, Europe or Asia takes on different forms. This round table will investigate what role “low-tech” plays as a source of creation and will also look at the interaction and complementarity between “high-tech” and “low-tech”.
