Last month, a team of six staff from the Civic Initiative (a business group of the University of Massachusetts Amherst Donahue Institute) were in Islamabad. They held a three-day follow-up conference for alumni from recent cohorts of the Study of the U.S. Institutes Comparative Public Policymaking program that has been held annually by the Civic Initiative since 2010. The SUSI program is funded by the US Department of State Education and Cultural Affairs Office.
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Re-Thinking Urban in Pakistan Workshop
RE-THINKING URBAN IN PAKISTAN
Collaborative Workshop at NED University City Campus Karachi
1-2 January 2013
Organized By: Department of Architecture and Planning, NED University of Engineering & Technology, American Institute of Pakistan Studies, South Asia Institute, University of Texas – Austin and Habib University, Karachi
This workshop is envisaged as an exchange between academics and activists who primarily work on urban Sindh in Pakistan. It will encourage interdisciplinary perspectives and bring together urban planners, architects, historians, anthropologists, sociologists, artists, film makers, fiction writers and others involved in thinking about cities in Sindh in creative and novel forms. The forum will create a space to enter into a dialogue to understand the contemporary urban forms and contexts as they transform in Sindh and in a comparative perspective. The endeavor is to bring a group of interdisciplinary expertise on the subject together to create room for dialogue and discussion across various dimensions and open up new ways to think about the cities in Sindh.