Yasmeen Lari workshops: Oct. 1 + 2
Rebuilding: Designing for Communities affected by Disasters
Workshops by renowned Pakistani architect Yasmeen LARI
- Making Workshop: October 1
- Talking Workshop: October 2
Location: School of Architecture, in Rooms 101+102 (first floor)
OCTOBER 1. Sunday. 10:00 a.m. A half-day design-built workshop where students will learn to work with bamboo under the guidance of Pakistani architect Yasmeen LARI. Participants will construct a half-scale 鈥淧refab OctaGreen Bamboo Shelter.鈥� They will also experiment with cast mud bricks. Space is limited. Please ipek.tureli [at] mcgill.ca (RSVP) by September 22.
OCTOBER 2. Monday. 5:30 to 7:00 p.m. Roundtable debate with Yasmeen LARI and experts from Montreal who work on rebuilding communities affected by disasters. Gonzalo Lizarralde (UdeM, Directeur de l鈥橭bservatoire universitaire de la vuln茅rabilit茅, la r茅silience et la reconstruction durable), Lisa Bornstein (McGill, SoUP), moderated by Ipek Tureli (McGill, SoA).
Yasmeen Lari will give a public talk as part of the lecture series of the School of Architecture on October 3 (Tuesday) at 6:00 p.m.
These workshops and the public lecture are sponsored by Yan P. Lin Centre鈥檚 Research Group on Democracy, Space and Technology.
