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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