DATS ’10

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The Design, Art & Technology Symposium is a collaborative event aiming to grow the Piedmont Triad’s economy by connecting businesses with creative talent development. This year, FOOD FOR THOUGHT recognizes the innovation and impact of our region’s food movement, while joining the international celebration of Powers of Ten Day honoring the design legacy of Charles & Ray Eames.

Connect with creative people passionate about food, culture, and community!

  • Enjoy culinary tidbits and full-scale delights each day
  • Compare notes with other creative people at the Design Expo and throughout the event
  • Interact with Eames Office designers, MIT professors, urban farmers, and area artists
  • Saturday Gelato Tasting and food-focused Pecha Kucha
  • Sunday Powers of Food indoor picnic with the Winston-Salem Shuffle
  • Sunday Powers of Light evening program with holographic displays
  • Monday Experimental Lunch and Wear Something Special extravaganza
  • Tons of serious fun!

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Design Expo

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Mountcastle Forum at the Milton Rhodes Center for the Arts becomes our banquet hall of Food for Thought. Exchange ideas and presentations with businesses, nonprofit organizations, artists, designers, media and technology experts, and just-plain-interested folks. FREE and open to the public Sunday afternoon through Monday.
Highlights

DATS’10 goes purple as culinary collaborators create new recipes based on the Stokes County purple sweet potato. Four cooking teams, each consisting of a professional chef and refugee-immigrant, face language, tradition and cultural barriers as they work to communicate, collaborate, and create great new recipes. Taste samples in the DATS’10 MashUp!

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Seth Riskin, light-arts performer and manager of the MIT Museum’s Emerging Technologies and Holography/Spatial Imaging Initiative, makes imaginations soar with fly-throughs of holographic space on Powers of Ten Day.
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Ticket-holders enjoy all events, including an indoor Powers of Ten Day picnic, performances by Art Tasting and 10 Powerful Musicians in the Winston-Salem Shuffle, a carefully curated selection of local foods, and spectacular high-speed videography. Provocative themes include Triad transitions and food sources from photosynthesis to chicken farms.
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Join us at the brand new Milton Rhodes Center for the Arts. Come and see the Sawtooth transformed!
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