Public Event: Driftwood Transcultural Forum

Khon Kaen Public Health Forum

Driftwood: Redefining Sound Sculpture Controllers

The Driftwood is a maneuverable sculpture that is both an instrument and a controller. Tactilely, it is a micro-terrain one can explore with the hands as with the ears. Closed circuit sensors, moving wooden parts and Piezo microphones are discussed in the design phase alongside background and musical implementation concepts. Electronics and nature converge in this instrument harmoniously refere...

Ca✩ Forum on Anthropology in Public

On Human Rights Day 1992, the United Nations proclaimed an International Year of the World’s Indigenous People. A Decade for Indigenous Peoples was subsequently launched, to run from 1995 to 2004, and a Forum of Indigenous Peoples established. The inaugural meeting of the Forum, held in Geneva in 1996, was unfortunately disrupted by gate-crashers. A self-styled delegation of South African Boers...

Report on an International Event Cost 281/ebea Forum.

A Common COST 281/EBEA (European BioElectromagnetics Association) Forum on European Projects with two workshops ‘‘Emerging Technologies’’ and ‘‘Mobile Communication and Children’’ were held at the University of Rome ‘‘La Sapienza,’’ Italy, Faculty of Electrical Engineering from May 2 to 5, 2002. The previous workshop that focused on the electromagnetic aspects of emerging technologies was organ...

WTO Public Forum 2010: The Forces Shaping World Trade

Following decisions taken by Pacific Islands Forum Leaders in August 2009, PACER Plus (Pacific Agreement on Closer Economic Relations) negotiations have begun, aiming to deepen economic cooperation between the 14 developing Pacific island countries (PICs) and Australia and New Zealand through a comprehensive, reciprocal regional trade agreement. PACER Plus builds on previous agreements within t...