March 2011 / Sustainable Success Stories / Dingens Barometers and Mottrix Sustainability at School workshop: Dingens Barometers Last friday (4th of March) REcentre launched its collaboration with Dingens Barometers. Paul Dingens from Dingens Barometers invited design students from the MAD-faculty (Genk and Diepenbeek, BE) and Gut Rosenberg (Aachen, DE) to explore his precious measuring instruments in his beautiful barometer museum in Beverlo, BE. During three workshops the students will work around the main question of how to develop a modern version of a barometer while using 'accuracy' and 'sustainability' as unique selling propositions for it. The students will get help of professionals such as Katja Craeghs from Greenpoint and Gauthier de Pierpont of A Hermes. Dingens Barometers (Beverlo, BE) - No longer under the Weather after Mercury Sustainability means turning a crisis into an opportunity. How necessity can lead to innovation. Afther the exclusion of the use of mercury in barometers, Dingens Barometers had to find other solutions to produce their barometers. They worked together with the University of Hasselt and that’s how they arrived at a new barometer system that is at least as accurate as mercury barometers: a combination of a membrane and aneroid cells. "Now that there is an ecological equivalent on the market, it will be a special point to make the product sexy again with an eye to design", says Paul Dingens, Managing Director of Dingens Barometers. Read the article here: in English, Dutch or French. Check out Dingens Barometers' website. Mottrix (Ougrée, BE) - An Invention that is up and rolling Sustainability means assuring soft and accessible mobility. Gilles Falisse, artist and designer of the Mottrix, never stops inventing. He invents and tests ecological mobility solutions. The Mottrix exists of a kit containing a light motor, that can be easily fitted to almost any type of bicycle in less than 30 minutes. Used with a ‘standard’ bicycle, this system offers a no-pedal range of approximately 20 kilometres with its pair of lead batteries. Read the article here: in English, Dutch or French. Check out Mottrix's website. Short News Design Platform Flanders Creating a plaftorm for Designers in Flanders. Share your ideas on such a platform by participating to an online market survey on the 17th of March 2011 between 12.30 and 14.00. Send an e-mail to designplatform@agentschapondernemen.be to receive a short briefing and confirm your participation to this thinkthank. Your opinion counts! Desis Forum Paris DESIS Forum Format: "4-slides exhibit - 4-minutes presentations"  - Design for social innovation. Show your project. Exchange your experience with that of others. Get an overview of what is going on in the field. More information on how to participate can be found at www.desis-network.org Deadline for the submission: 25th of April 2011. The Desis forum takes place in Paris on the 21st of May. DESIS Forum/Paris is organized by DESIS Network within the Cumulus-DESIS partnership and in collaboration with Strate College Paris. Back-to-back with the Cumulus Conference: Crossing talents: transversality in design. LDA Design Award 2011 Agro design innovation contest. The agraric industry is a booming one in Dutch Limburg. LDA wants to promote industrial design and organises a design competition for tools, products, packaging etc. that can be used in the agraric industry. This theme adheres to the Floriade 2012. Download the form on the LDA website , participate and get the chance to win up to 3.000 euro for your design. Info? Mail. unsubscribe | contact