Rocket Stove Course with Carlotta Werner – 27/28 Aug 2011
Courses/Workshops,Events, Resources & News — by Yasin Sancak
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Each day more than half of world’s population burns almost three million tons of firewood on open fires or traditional stoves. This causes 1.5 million deaths worldwide each year and massive environmental consequences. Usually, traditional stoves are producing much more health damaging smoke and burn much more biomass fuel than needed. Energy efficient biomass-burning stoves can help to solve these problems. But to be sustainable they have to meet users’ requirements and local manufacturing possibilities.
This course faces this worldwide problem and gives an introduction how to improve cooking stoves to be more healthy and efficient. During the course you will learn theoretically and practically about different burning principles. We will build our own Rocket-stove to cook the Saturday night meal. Moreover, we will observe and analyze the local use and technics of open fires for pekmez-cooking and design our own improved stove.
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Carlotta Werner’s CV
Carlotta Werner is a young industrial designer from Bauhaus-University in Germany.
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In cooperation with the German “GTZ” and the Indian engineer office “Prakti Design Lab” she worked on improved cooking stoves in South India. Together with Indian housewives and cooks as well as local manufactures she re-designed a terracotta stove for Indian households and invented a highly efficient stove for the needs of cantines.
Carlotta Werner won several design awards, honoring her own view on sustainable and user based design.
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At the moment she is working and living in Istanbul developing the exhibition of the “Museum of Innocence” for Orhan Pamuk.
Please click for accommodation and details.
Course pricing / Bookings
| 200 TL | (If paid 2 weeks before course commencement: 160 TL) |
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