Alejandro Haiek downplays his role as architect in defense of a slow yet transformative architecture ultimately powered by the community. Last November, we welcomed Venezuelan architect Alejandro Haiek as visiting…
Next week our program welcomes back Oxford Brookes professor Nabeel Hamdi as a member of our visiting faculty to teach this year’s final workshop before our students begin work on…
“Participation” is the buzz word when it comes to socially responsible design, but what does it take to achieve genuine community engagement in the production of spaces? And what does…
Next Monday at 12pm we welcome scholar Aditya Kumar, who will be give an open lecture on community based planning in managing disaster reconstruction, post-war reconstruction and slum upgrading. Kumar…
Professor Nabeel Hamdi has joined us again this year for another workshop with our students to talk about participative design and placemaking within the practice of development. We wanted to…
How can we engage communities? To what extent should the project process be participatory? How do researchers negotiate with the hegemony of western cultural interpretations? How does the researcher journey…
Community participation is at the core of sustainable development. But what happens when participation is mandatory? Our student Kimberly Pelkofsky, currently interning with ASA studio in Kigali, contemplates the case…
If you have followed our updates over the last few months, you already know about one of this year’s main focal points, the Ciutat Meridiana workshop, an academic exercise and…
Here are more photographs of the Ciutat Meridiana participation session that took place on December 1st. The session was organized by our students together with the local municipality as part…
A student listens to a local resident to map her daily routes and accessibility issues through the steep topography of the neighborhood As we announced on Friday, our students set…