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Safa Charafi, Founder and CEO of Urban Inclusion, challenges Eurocentric and colonial approaches to urban planning, arguing for cities shaped by local knowledge, lived experience, and fairer power structures. The conversation explores how dominant Western models have erased indig ...  Show more

Audio note: Recorded in a busy event hall. Some background noise remains, despite AI-based noise reduction.Maimunah Mohd Sharif, Mayor of Kuala Lumpur and former Executive Director of UN-Habitat, shares her perspective on what it really means to build a smart city today.The conve ...  Show more

The first of three live Design Doha podcast recordings features an interview with the Biennial's deputy director Fahad Al Obaidly. He takes us behind the scenes of Design Doha, breaks down what "Celebrating Regional Design Excellence" means in practice, and how the Biennial ro ...

We interviewed Khalid Albaih to discuss his work, his art, and the limits and possibilities associated with ‎the political cartoon medium. 

Connect with Khalid: https://www.instagram.com/KhalidAlBaih/‎

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Read about Bahrain's Dilmun Mounds 👉 https://www.afikra.com/daftarjournal/dilmun-mounds

Civil Architecture is a cultural practice pre-occupied with the making of buildings and books about them. Civil's work as ...

Wael Al Awar is an architect and founder of waiwai alongside Kazuma Yamao — an architectural, landscape, urban, interior and graphic design studio with offices in Dubai and Tokyo. Waiwai takes a highly conte ...