World Bamboo Festival
World Bamboo Festival - POSTPONED TO 2011

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Dear Friends, In the presence of what’s happening environmentally in the world I believe that bamboo may provide some

Dates

14th -17th August 2010 Festival
1st February Registration opens
30th May Deadline for abstract submissions
15th July Last submission of full papers for proceedings
11th to 14th August Optional workshops
14th August Festival begins
12 to 6 pm Check-in, Registration
Exhibition, Trade Fair and Poster Session set-up
15th August
8 am Registration
9.00 am Opening Ceremony
10.00 am to 6 pm Lectures & Workshops, Green Cinema, Exhibition & Trade Fair
7 to 9 pm Evening Get Together at the Heart of School and Mepantigan (Green School Campus)
16th August
9 am to 6 pm Lectures & Workshops, Green Cinema, Exhibition & Trade Fair
7 pm Evening Event at Local Village
17th August
9 am to 5.30 pm Lectures & Workshops, Green Cinema, Exhibition & Trade Fair
7 to 10 pm Closing Event & Party at Green School

Program

Opening Ceremony

John Hardy, Founder of Green School Bali
Govenor of Bali (tbc)
Kamesh Salam, Director, Cane and Bamboo Technology Centre; Steering Committee of National Bamboo Mission Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India; and President of World Bamboo Organization (WBO) (tbc)
Professor Dr. Ir. Morisco, Gadjah Mada University Yogyacarta, Indonesia (tbc)
Joerg Stamm, Director Ecocamboo, Colombia

Lectures, Sessions, Permanent Workshops

Lectures

  • About Bamboo (forestry, nursery, plantation, biodiversity, horticulture)Arief Rabik, & Ben Brown: Bamboo Clump Management, Lecture and WorkshopMerranggi Foundation: Bamboo NurserySundhir Pande: Silvicultural responses and management challenges of recent gregarious flowering of Melocann (muli) bamboo in Northeastern Himalayas in India) (tbc)

    Siviana, Ph.D.: Faculty of Engineering, Diponegoro University, Semarang-Indonesia, Ruhruniversität Bochum, Germany: Modifying Bamboo
    John Andrews (tbc)

  • Treatment & Preservation
    N.N.
  • Bamboo Architecture, Engineering & ConstructionProfessor Morizo, University Yogyacarta, Indonesia (tbc)Jeffree Trudeau, Director Bamboo Living, Special Projects Director WBO, USA (tbc)Joerg Stamm, Director Eco Bamboo, Colombia: Bamboo Architecture & Construction

    Joerg Stamm, Director Eco Bamboo, Colombia: Bamboo Bridges & Engineering

    Munir Vahanvati, Giant Grass Design, Australia: Bamboo Emergency Shelter

    Dr. Momo Subyakto, Unit for Biomaterials, Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), Bogor, Indonesia:Development of Bio-micro-composites from Bamboo Fibers and Polylactic acid (PLA) using Injection Molding

    Ingemar Saevfors, Architect, Sweden: Bamboo for Urban Density Housing

    Nicholas Coffill, Creative Director, Live Media Theatre, Singapore: Bambu Theatre

    Supreedee Rittironk, Ph.D., Thammasat University, Thailand: Innovative Bamboo Structure: Thai Bamboo Design Studio

  • Earth ArchitectureNripal Adhikary, Architect, INBAR India: Bamboo and EarthHanno Burtscher, Architect, Bali: Development and Structure of Earth ArchitectureMartijn Schildkamp, Architect, Smart Shelter Foundation, Netherland: Earth Architecture, Soil Recognition

    Martin Schilkamp, Architect, Smart Shelter Foundation, Netherland: Earth Architecture, Earth Quake Resitance Contruction

    Martin Schildkamp, Architect, Smart Shelter Foundation: Alternative Construction Techniques (Earthships)

  • Bamboo to Energy, Bamboo for CDM
    N.N.
  • Community-based Bamboo Development & EconomySundhir Pande, National Mission of Bamboo Applications, India:Challenges and opportunities of mass bamboo planting (under the National Bamboo Mission programme in India)
  • Bamboo Design & ProductsDr. Dwinita Larasati, Research Group Human & Industrial Product, Institute of Technology Bandung, INDONESIA: (lecture, demonstration and workshop, tbc)
  • Permanent 2-4 h workshops during the Festival

    Bamboo Construction and application:Jochim Wachner & Januarius S. Guling, PT Indobamboo Indah (IBI), Yogyakarta, Indonesia

    Bamboo from Tissue culture: Dr. Anto Rimbawanto and Marc Peeters, PT Bambun Nusa Verde (BNV), Yogyakarta, Indonesia

    Bamboo Craft & Design: John Scheer. Tropical Treehouse, Puerto Rico

    Harvesting Bamboo

    Bamboo planting: tour and hands on experience at Meranggi Foundation

    Musical Instruments

    Traditionel and modern Bamboo Games & Toys

    Architectural Modell Making at PT Bambu

    Small Bamboo Structures

supporters

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World Bamboo Festival - POSTPONED TO 2011