Living Continuity is a collective inquiry on the challenges and opportunities of working towards spatially just neighbourhoods. Session V looks critically inwards to explore work that challenges the current frontiers of architecture and urbanism. How can praxis enable critical engagement, and what does it reveal around current issues of access, exclusion, precarity and participation in neighbourhood planning?. Najia Fatima discusses the status of sanitation workers in urban Pakistan, highlighting how class, caste, and religious identity intersect to marginalize workers, and how urban design and housing conditions exacerbate this marginalization.

Najia Fatima is a graduate of M.S. Critical, Curatorial, and Conceptual Practices of Architecture at the Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. Fatima also has an independent art practice that engages with themes of occupation, displacement, and geopolitical tensions in contemporary South Asia; her writing, considering how the built environment manifests structural inequality, has been published in various magazines. She earned her B.A. in Architecture and Visual Studies from the University of Toronto.