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PANEL I
January 10, 2:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Professional Practice in South Asia
The complex and often contradictory character of the contemporary South Asian city places the practitioner within a variety of constraints and opportunities. This panel will explore contemporary design implementation strategies in architecture and urban planning by drawing on the reflections of four leading professionals in the field. The panel will also explore how new materials, technologies, and other tools are changing the way the practitioner engages with the urban.
Ratan J. Batilboi
Principal, Ratan J. Batliboi – Consultants Private Limited
Founder, EdEn – Educated Environments
Expertise: Architectural practice in the context of India; sustainable architecture; construction management and materials; infrastructure development; interior design; retail design
Yawar Jilani
Architect, ARCOP Associates
Expertise: Architectural practice in the context of Pakistan; Housing design and development; educational facilities; sustainable design; ceramics
Farooq Ameen
Principal, City Design Studio
Expertise: Architecture and project management in the context of US, Europe and Asia; housing and residential development; master planning; sustainable design; museum and institutional design
Habib Fida Ali
Architect, Habib Fida Ali
National Vice President of the Institute of Architects, Pakistan (IAP)
Nayyar Ali Dada
Architect, Nayyar Ali Dada & Associates
Discussant: Spiro Pollalis
Professor of Design, Technology and Management, Harvard Graduate School of Design
Director, Zofnass Program for the Sustainability of Infrastructure
Expertise: Comparative urban planning, design and infrastructure; environmental sustainability; infrastructure development; project implementation and management; new town development
PANEL II
January 10, 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Memory and Conservation of the Built Environment
This panel will draw on a diverse group of speakers to explore how cities in South Asia have remained mindful of the past through conservation and other means, in the face of forces such as population growth, economic development and urban violence. What are the best strategies for enabling future growth while maintaining perspective of critical conservation?
Abha Narain Lambah
Principal
Abha Narain Lambah Associates, India
Consulting in conservation and historic building restoration; museum design; urban and regional planning and conservation; professional practice
Asma Ibrahim
Founder, Sindh Exploration and Adventure Society
Director, State Bank Museum & Art Gallery Department
Center for Environmental and Archaeological Research
Founder, ™Terracotta, Zohra Ibrahim Foundation
Expertise: Archaeology; preservation; history and remembrance; museums and institutions; cultural restoration
Hameed Haroon
Pakistan Herald Publicatins (Pvt) Limited
Dr. Kaleemullah Lashari
Fauzia Qureshi
Principal, National College of Arts, Lahore
Discussant: Arif Hasan
Architect and Urban Planner
Founder, Urban Resource Center, Pakistan
Expertise: Architecture, urban planning and design in Pakistan and beyond; appropriate technology development; environmental sustainability; social justice and the right to the city
PANEL III
January 11, 11:00 am – 1:00 pm
Constructing the ‘Right to the City’ in South Asia: Housing, Governance & the Civic Realm
Building on the concept of the ‘Right to the City’ this panel will confront the expanding network of popular claims on the contemporary South Asian City, and the ways in which urban planning and design mediates and absorbs such struggles. Topics to be included in this panel include the relationship between housing, urban governance and the spatial structuring of the civic realm.
Spiro Pollalis
Professor of Design, Technology and Management, Harvard Graduate School of Design
Director, Zofnass Program for the Sustainability of Infrastructure
Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Expertise: Comparative urban planning, design and infrastructure; environmental sustainability; infrastructure development; project implementation and management
Kamran Asdar Ali
Director of South Asia Institute
Associate Professor of Anthropology, Middle East Studies and Asian Studies
University of Texas, Austin
Expertise: Gender, Health, Development, Labor History, Urban Studies, Popular Culture, South Asia, Middle East
Arif Hasan
Architect and Urban Planner
Founder, Urban Resource Center, Pakistan
Expertise: Architecture, urban planning and design in Pakistan and beyond; appropriate technology development; environmental sustainability; social justice and the right to the city
Ishrat Hussain
Dean and Director
Institute of Business Administration (IBA), Karachi
Parvez Qureshi
Discussant: Justin D. Stern
PhD Student in Urban Planning and Design, Harvard University
Research Associate, Harvard South Asia Institute
Expertise: Architecture and urban planning in rapidly urbanizing regions; political economy of urban form in the context of East and South Asia; urbanism and development
PANEL IV
January 11, 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Beyond the Nation-State: Emerging South Asian Urbanism
This panel will draw on the regional expertise of four leading academics and educators in the fields of architecture, urban planning and design to consider South Asian Cities on the subcontinental scale. What are the points of convergence and divergence in the planning and development of the contemporary South Asian city? The panel will also explore the role academic institutions and design/planning pedagogy plays in shaping the contemporary metropolis at the regional scale.
Jagath Munasinghe
Department Head and Senior Lecturer, Department of Town & Country Planning
University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka
Expertise: Urban planning and design in the Sri Lankan context; planning theory; spatial cognition and environmental imageability
Fuad H. Mallick
Pro Vice Chancellor
Chairperson, Department of Architecture
BRAC University, Bangladesh
Expertise: Architecture and urban planning in the Bangladeshi context; environmental and energy studies; international development
Aromar Revi
Director, Indian Institute for Human Settlements, India
Expertise: City and regional planning in India; international development and urbanization; political economy of reform; technology and sustainability
Anjum Altaf
Dean and Professor,
Mushtaq Ahmad Gurmani School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Pakistan
Expertise: City and regional planning in the Pakistan context; Engineering and economics; International development in East Asia & the Pacific
Discussant: Rahul Mehrotra
Chair and Professor, Department of Urban Planning & Design
Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Expertise: Architecture and urban planning in the context of India and broader South Asia; informal urbanism; architectural practice in South Asia; critical conservation
PANEL V
January 12, 11:00 am – 1:00 pm
Mental Health and the Urban Environment
This panel will confront the complicated relationship between mental health and urbanization in the context of Karachi and other major urban centers in Pakistan. Of particular interest to the discussion will be the provision of trauma care in dense urban settings, emergency transit services, and other innovations in healthcare to help alleviate the problems associated with urban life.
Saadia Quaraishy
Consultant psychiatrist, CEO Aman Mental Health
Expertise: Mental health; General adult and rehabilitation psychiatry; medical ethics; development of community recovery oriented services; mental health awareness.
Satchit Balsari
Fellow, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard University
Director, Global Emergency Medicine Program, Weill Cornell Medical College / NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital
Expertise: Emergency medicine; pre-hospital care; community-focused disaster mitigation methods in low-income settings
Jennifer Leaning
Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights, Harvard University
Director, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights
Expertise: Public health; medical ethics; early warning in response to war and disaster; human rights and international humanitarian law in crisis settings; problems of human security in the context of forced migration and conflict
Dr. Junaid Razzak
Senior Lecturer, Aga Khan University in Karachi
CEO AMANHEALTH, Aman Foundation
Expertise: Emergency medicine; public health in the context of Pakistan; healt policy and management
Dr. Sania Nishtar
Author on health policy in Pakistan
Discussant: Ruth Barron
Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
Director of Outpatient Psychiatry, Cambridge Health Alliance
Expertise: disaster psychiatry; psychological trauma; humanitarian worker stress
PANEL VI
January 12, 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
Disaster and Mass Casualty Response in Urban Crisis
This panel will address best practice in urban disaster planning and response and will then focus on the provision of trauma care in dense urban settings, including issues of on-scene site control, crowd management, emergency triage, and emergency patient transport. Strategies for integrating plans to promote hospital-based casualty reception and burden sharing will be discussed, along with training requirements for physicians, nurses, and other health care personnel.
Satchit Balsari
Fellow, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard University
Director, Global Emergency Medicine Program, Weill Cornell Medical College
Expertise: Emergency medicine; pre-hospital care; community-focused disaster mitigation methods in low-income settings
Junaid Razzak
Senior Lecturer, Aga Khan University in Karachi
Expertise: Emergency medicine; public health in the context of Pakistan; health policy and management
Dr. Abdul Bari
Khadija Jamal
Visiting faculty member of the NED University of Engineering and Technology, Karachi
Member of the Institute of Architects of Pakistan
Adnan Asdar
Chief Executive Officer; Multinet Pakistan (Private) Limited
Discussant:
Jennifer Leaning
Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights, Harvard University
Director, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights
Expertise: Public health; medical ethics; early warning in response to war and disaster; human rights and international humanitarian law in crisis settings; problems of human security in the context of forced migration and conflict