The Harvard Arab Alumni Association and the Graduate School of Design Club MEDINA Present:

Graduate School of Design Conference

Developing Infra-tectures

Friday, November 13, 12:00-14:00

(Registration to begin at 11:30)

GRADUATE SCHOOL OF DESIGN | Gund Hall, Room 112 (Stubbins)

For further information, please email info@harvardarabalumni.org

Panel Description:

What is the contribution and role of design projects' geographical specificities in shaping an office practice and its methodological approaches?

How easily can those methodologies be transferred to different contexts?

Departing from our work in developing countries - where resources are scarce and the demands for basic needs immediate - and desert climates -where water resources are limited- we will delineate our approach which collapses infrastructure, architecture and landscape while attempting to address local social and economic concerns.
I will discuss our praxis model through the analysis of commissioned, speculative and non-profit proposals of various scales as well as research and studio projects.

Speaker

Aziza Chaouni:  Principal, BUREAU E.A.S.T