"LIVE FEED: Middle East Collaborations, 2005-2012, Columbia University GSAPP+CUMERC"
The Center for Architecture
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In the biggest transformation in human history, 70% of the world’s 9 billion people will live in cities by 2050. As the fabric of our shared world changes so radically, a whole new kind of intellectual infrastructure is needed. In order to train professionals to design new kinds of built environments in the rapidly changing world, Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) students and faculty are engaging with and learning from all the transformative regions around the globe – East Asia, South Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East.
LIVE FEED: Middle East Collaborations 2005 – 2012 offers a survey of GSAPP’s engagement in the region. All of the school’s disciplines – architectural design, historic preservation, real estate development, and urban planning – have led radical research and educational experiments. Through partnerships with international colleagues in the professional, academic, artistic, nonprofit, public, and private realms, GSAPP has developed architectural design studios and workshops, city planning processes, engaged historic preservation projects, and urban planning studios in Afghanistan, Jordan, Palestinian Territories, Qatar, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates. The main point is to learn from each other through an open dialogue and a free flowing interactive exchange of ideas. This form of collaborative research does not separate the local from the global. Local strength takes advantage of global insights and vice versa, generating new forms of expertise and incubating a new leadership generation in the process.
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from February 17, 2012 to March 14, 2012