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REcentre teams up with Maastricht University
01.02.11 - 31.12.11
As of February 2011 REcentre is one of the three local partners in the course ‘Nature and the City; The Politics of Community Gardening and Urban Farming’ that runs until June 2011 at the Maastricht University.
The course is part of the MARBLE programme (Maastricht University Research Based Learning) and is coordinated by dr. Bas van Heur. Students from both European Studies as Arts & Culture have applied for this course. The other partners are Dutch organisations Centrum voor Natuur en Milieu Educatie, Slow Food Limburg and Gebiedsontwikkeling Maastricht/Meerssen/Valkenburg.
The exhibition Re-Action! continues in a new form under the title 'Common Grounds'
17.07.11 - 31.12.11
Re-Action! Exhibition by REcentre at NAiM/Bureau Europa (Maastricht,NL) continues as 'Common Grounds'
Although sustainability is the magic word these days, we cannot yet speak of a sustainability revolution. Sustainable innovation still seems to be synonymous with complexity. Establishing sustainability and durability requires producers to make substantial investments, both in time and money, and is based on an innovative and flexible relationship with the user. In times of crisis, however, producers often simply cannot afford to take risks.
Local Food, Local Homes: Pop-Up Restaurant
17.08.11 - 04.09.11
Think global, eat local!
Do you know where the food on your plate comes from? The Meuse-Rhine Euregion not only prides itself for a lot of delicious regional
products, it is also a producer of a lot of varieties of vegetables,
fruit, dairy, meat and even fish! But where does the produce from our own region go to? Why is it
the beans from Kenya and tomatoes from Israel that end up on our plate
and not the locally grown veggies, meat and other products?
The Great Indoors Award 2011
05.10.11 - 06.11.11
REcentre took part in the education programme of The Great Indoors Award 2011 (Maastricht, NL)
The Great Indoors Award is an international, biennial, interior design award that wishes to elevate interior design to the level of ‘mature discipline’. The Great Indoors Award is initiated and organized by: FRAME Magazine (www.framemag.com) (Amsterdam, NL), Marres, Centre for Contemporary Culture (www.marres.org) (Maastricht, NL), and NAiM/Bureau Europa (www.bureau-europa.nl) (Maastricht, NL).
