REcentre presents to you: 'sustainability at school' - the movie featuring Luigi Ferrara from Institute without Boundaries, Natascha Rommens from REcentre, some teachers and students and many more.

This movie reviews the exhibition of sustainable design school projects around three themes (water, local 80 km and multifunctionality). 'Sustainability at School' is the fruit of a collaboration between REcentre, some sustainable design specialists and 5 design schools out of the Euregion Meuse-Rhin.

Go and watch the video on our YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OvMddDB9YQ

Drinking tap water instead of bottled water: it's healthier, cheaper and wiser. Consuming tap water = sustainable profit for you and the environment. Together with it's designers, REcentre is supporting the drinKraantjeswater campaign.

Read more about the campaign and the carafe. There was an online poll on www.drinkraantjeswater.be to vote for your favourite carafe. The winning carafe was presented to you on the 14th of July 2010 and will be in the shops in Limburg in December 2010.

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Thanks for all the people for voting on the carafes! Two beautiful, original, practical and sustainable designs came out of it, but there can be only one winner. It's Hegge ID. Big Up for them!

Zachte G organises i_beta on the 11th of June in Heerlen. It is all about being in development, learning adapting and evolving. At the i_beta/festival 2010 they present new trends from e-culture, e-conomy and the challenges for the international region of Limburg.

REcentre invites Bas de Groot for a workshop on urban farming during the i_beta event. He worked for many years on healthcare farms. During that time he became intrigued by the quality of farming and farms for the urban environment. He is co-founder of the taskforce Urban Farming 'Eetbaar Rotterdam' and coordinator Urban Farming and Farming for Health at the biodynamic school of Agriculture 'the Warmonderhof'.

Practical info can be found here.

Vleugels Teugels Maastricht opens its doors on the 4th of June 2010. Go take a look in a conceptual world of pure and sustainable living. Marij Vullinghs and René Huigen, the initiators behind Vleugels Teugels will welcome you and your sustainable ideas with open arms (or wings). REcentre has found its own place there as well on their permanent exhibition.

Check out their website

Visit our exhibition of sustainable academy projects at C-mine Genk (BE)  (29th - 30th of May 12-17h)

Pictures can be found in our gallery!

Trendspotting (a VPRO television show) went to the Salone Internazionale del Mobile 2010 in Milan to discover true sustainable products on the prestigious fair. Time to rethink design! How many design does a human being need? How can designers make consumers aware of the usefulness of their purchases? Are we waiting for the Xth new chair?

Check out the movie on the VPRO website (you might have to download the program 'Silverlight' to see the movie, it's on their site)

The first lab'eau took place on the 7th of April at Z33 in Hasselt. The six designers who compete for the sustainable water carafe for the drinKraantjeswater campaign were invited to follow a workshop. In the morning they got to know where our water comes from, what it contains, how it gets drinkable, the battle between bottle and tap,... That part was taken care of by Paula Thoelen from VMW, Olivier Sauwens from BBL and Veerle Verbakel from REcentre. In the afternoon we invited several experts in the fields of communication, materials, sustainability, architecture, filosophy,...to brainstorm together with the designers about the sustainable water carafe or other water carriers and about the best way how to get the message of 'drinking tap water instead of bottled water' across to the consumers by design. This workshop was led by Thomas Lommée from Open Structures.

Pictures and result of the workshop can be found soon on our activities page.

1st of April was the first Milk the Green Cow session and the first time that companies and designers get the chance to take steps in becoming a sustainable coach for their business. Prof. dr. Joseph Smitz talked about facts and figures to prove the urgency of our sustainable acting. Next were United Pepper, Nike and Nitto Europe who showed us the importance of sustainability on the social and commercial field of doing business. In the afternoon Stefaan Vandist gave practical tools and tips on topics as 'seven sins of greenwashing', 'seven steps from grey to green' and 'seven building blocks for the right belief system'.

The next coaching sessions will take place on the 6th of May and the 3d of June. Info and program on our activities page. You can still subscribe!

Report and presentations can be found here

Unizo Limburg organises an Euregional startersaward. Did you start-up a company as from June 2009, do you have a good businessplan and do you maybe already do business across the Euregional borders? Apply before the 20th of April 2010 for this award. More info on Extensio

Subscribe now for Milk the green Cow

for more info, take a look at our activities page!  And subscribe here. Deadline is the 24th of  March!

Today, March 16th, REcentre presented its action plan to the Euregional press and Media.

Mr. Paul-Emile Mottard, Deputy in charge of culture of the Province of Liège; Mr. Gilbert Van Baelen, Deputy in charge of culture of the Province of Belgian Limburg and Mrs. Odile Wolfs, Deputy in charge of culture of the Province of Dutch Limburg explained their motivation to join forces and create a Euregional Centre for Sustainable Design.

For more information on our mission, partners and team, click here

For more information on our activities click here