Treviso - 25th to 30th June '02 -
Palazzo del Trecento
Paris - 5th to 13th July '02 - La Maison de l'Inde
Venice - 19th to 28th July '02 - Candiani exhibition centre in
Mestre
Mumbai - 7th to 15th September '02 - to be announced
The Auroville Roving Exhibitions are part of the 'City
Networking for Sustainable Development and Human Unity' project
under the Asia Urbs programme that is funded by the European Commission
and aims at facilitating a decentralised cooperation and partnership
between cities in India and Europe. Based at the Centre for Urban
Research at Auroville's Future, the project formally began in October
2001 and will reach completion on September 31st, 2002.
Travelling, interactive, networking public forums
From the point of view of networking for
sustainable development and urban management, 'Roving Exhibitions' are
an effective dissemination tool. As their name suggests, these are
travelling, interactive, networking public forums that seek to initiate,
within the context of the Asia Urbs programme, an accessible exchange
system of information - social, economic, and cultural -- about
innovative urban management practices in Asian and European cities.
Seminars and workshops
The exhibitions, also referred to as 'Best
Practices Expositions' have a number of cities on their May to September
itinerary that include three Indian metros - Delhi, Chennai, and Mumbai,
and also the cities of Paris, Venice, and Treviso in Europe.
The recently concluded Delhi and Chennai
exhibitions were successful in their scope of activities and level of
interaction, and were instrumental in setting in motion local
institutional and human resources to develop effective means of urban
governance and networking.
The exhibitions included space for
seminar/workshops that provide the forum for discussion in the fields of
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water management energy usage
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environmental education and health
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eco-building
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waste management
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urban development and governance
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as well as the entrepreneur role of women in
sustainable development
India, Italy, France and India again..
The 'Roving Exhibitions' will be moving on to
their European destinations from the last week of June '02 with the aim
of furthering the networking prospects between Europe and South East
Asia. The city of Treviso will be the first European stopover, and then
in July the exhibition will move on to Paris and then to Venice, before
finally concluding in Mumbai in the second week of September 2002. The
exposition at Paris will see the presentation of the final compilation
of the database of both European and Indian cities. The project's
website will be operational by July '02 and will function as an
interactive tool for cementing long-term collaborations between European
and Asian partners.
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