Dwell Design Director Kyle Blue spoke at NCSU yesterday at 5pm.

REGISTRATION OPEN: Oct 4 Dwell NextHouse Tour in Hillsborough

We’re insanely excited and proud to announce our sponsorship of Triangle Modernist Houses’ home tour on October 4! This installment of the tour features Dwell’s NextHouse located in Hillsborough. Designed by Empyrean, the official open house was back in June of 2007, so if you missed it, here’s another chance.

This is a special TMH tour, being a new construction, touring space is limited. All previous TMH home tours have sold out, this one is expected to as well. Watch the TMH site for ticket details, and look for us at the tour!

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The Slow Food Movement began in Italy in 1986 to preserve regional cultural cuisine within an eco region. Some of its objectives include:

• forming and sustaining seed banks to preserve heirloom varieties in cooperation with local food systems
• developing an “ark of taste” for each ecoregion, where local culinary traditions and foods are celebrated
• preserving and promoting local and traditional food products, along with their lore and preparation
• organizing small-scale processing (including facilities for slaughtering and short run products)
• organizing celebrations of local cuisine within regions (for example, the Feast of Fields held in some cities in Canada)
• promoting “taste education“
• educating consumers about the risks of fast food
• educating citizens about the drawbacks of commercial agribusiness and factory farms
• educating citizens about the risks of monoculture and reliance on too few genomes or varieties
• developing various political programs to preserve family farms
• lobbying for the inclusion of organic farming concerns within agricultural policy
• lobbying against government funding of genetic engineering
• lobbying against the use of pesticides
• teaching gardening skills to students and prisoners
• encouraging ethical buying in local marketplaces

The Dwell on Design (DOD) conference in LA going on this weekend has some interesting content, including how the Slow Food Movement is influencing kitchen design.