Panel 1: The Urgency of People-Centred Planning and Praxis-based Alternatives

For this session, we look critically forward and 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?

Panelists: Arshiya Syed, Jason Carlow, Najia Fatima, Paulina Yeal Cho
Convener: Sharmeen Inayat
Discussant: Beatriz Itzel Cruz Megchun

Panel 2: Participatory Research and Lessons in Community Interdependence

In this session, we will explore the importance of amplifying and enabling community voices. What are the challenges, incremental and transformative actions necessary to challenge current systems that exclude and marginalize the global majority? How can modes of research support modes of resistance?

Panelists: Maitha Alhammadi, Marcos Parga, Ailo Ribas
Convener: Sharmeen Inayat
Discussant: Beatriz Itzel Cruz Megchun

We are committed to fostering community building through ongoing collaborative engagement and critical discourse. Registration for individuals who are interested to attend and participate is open.