• My MARS mantra: Stories from Changemakers in Disasters and Development

  • By: Rumana kabir
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My MARS mantra: Stories from Changemakers in Disasters and Development

By: Rumana kabir
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  • Listen to remarkable stories from changemakers, in disasters and development. Their stories of courage and persistence will spark fire in you! MARS stands for Motivations, Actions, Reflections and Sustainability. In each episode, we ask our guests, 1. What Motivates them to 'A'ct as changemakers? 2. What are their 'R'eflections? 3. How do they 'S'ustain themselves and or is their MARS mantra for a better world? Subscribe for fortnightly new episodes! PIf you want to get involved, please email us at mymarsmantra@gmail.com
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Episodes
  • E24 A changemakers guide to development practice_Nabeel Hamdi with Rumana Kabir
    Jul 5 2024

    Professor Nabeel Hamdi is a pioneering architect, introducing participatory action planning and development agenda in designing our cities. This episode showcases how built environment practitioners can play a ‘developmental’ role in placemaking. Nabeel was born in Afghanistan and is of Iraqi origin. He started his school in the UK and was trained as an architect at the Architectural Association in London. Nabeel then worked for Greater London Council on social housing, applying participatory design process, that enabled homeowners to actively negotiate their needs to the local authorities. He then taught in many architectural schools worldwide including Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and Oxford Brookes University. Nabeel was influenced by 3 architects - John Habraken, Colin Ward and John Turner, who shaped his approach to development practice.

    Nabeel has written many influential books, such as Housing Without Houses (IT Publications, 1995), The Placemaker's Guide to Building Community (Earthscan, 2010), Small Change (Earthscan, 2004), co-author of Making Micro Plans (IT Publications, 1988) and Action Planning for Cities (John Wiley and Sons, 1997), and edited the collected volumes Educating for Real (IT Publications, 1996) and Urban Futures (IT Publications, 2005).

    Nabeel also won the prestigious UN-Habitat Scroll of Honour for his work on Community Action Planning.

    Nabeel MARS mantra is ‘providing’, ‘enabling’, ‘adapting’ and ‘sustaining’ (P.E.A.S), suggesting these four inter-related sets of responsibility intrinsic to the art of practice in development.

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    38 mins
  • Ep 23 Think outside the box of 'Architecture Practice' তরুণ স্থপতির ভাবনা_Farhat Afzal, with Rumana Kabir
    Jun 21 2024

    Farhat Afzal studied architecture to broaden her horizon and to think outside the box. Farhat also writes about the thoughts that goes through young minds, including masculinity, our day to day, urban hurdle of moving in our streets, to quarter life crisis faced by young people regarding key decisions in their lives. Now she is using her critical thinking to question how we were taught following colonial and then a modern style, heavily influenced by the west. Farhat is now pursuing a PhD in architecture at the University of Cincinnati and is also baffled by how unsustainable the modern American lifestyle is!
    Farhat enjoys photographing old buildings, documenting her reading habits on Instagram, and maintaining her blog at farhatafzal.com
    স্থাপত্য নিয়ে পড়াশুনা করলেও, ফারহাত আফজাল নিজেকে স্থপতির চেয়ে স্থাপত্যের গবেষক হিসেবে পরিচয় দিতে স্বাচ্ছন্দ বোধ করেন। বাংলাদেশ থেকে স্নাতক পর্যায়ে পড়াশুনা শেষ করে তিনি এখন যুক্তরাষ্ট্রের ইউনিভার্সিটি অফ সিন্সিন্নাটিতে পি এইচ ডি করছেন। এর পাশাপাশি বাংলাদেশের বিভিন্ন পত্র পত্রিকায় তরুণ সমাজ, নগর উন্নয়ন, ও স্থাপত্যের ইতিহাস নিয়ে লেখালিখি করেছেন। স্থাপত্য ও নির্মাণ শিল্পের যে প্রভাব প্রকৃতি ও পরিবেশে পড়ে, সেটা নিয়ে কাজ করার অনেক আগ্রহ আছে তার। তার মঙ্গল মন্ত্র হচ্ছে, একটি দেশের নাগরিক হিসেবে, সকল শ্রোতাদের তিনি পরিবেশ বান্ধব উদ্যোগ নেয়ার ব্যাপারে আহ্বান জানাতে চান।



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    29 mins
  • Ep 22 Professor Poo’s passion for infrastructure leads her to the UK parliament _Priti Parikh with Rumana Kabir
    Jun 3 2024

    Priti’s passion for working in the slums of India with her dad, encouraged her to dedicate her engineering career to improve the lives of people, by providing quality infrastructure across Asia, Africa and the UK. Priti has been awarded as one of the top 50 women in engineering as well as the top 100 academics for policy making. Priti holds many influential positions, as the Director of Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction, a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers, as the founder of Engineering for International Development Research Centre, and several charity trustee roles. Priti also got invited to present the importance of investing in sustainable infrastructure to the UK parliament. Priti conveys strong messages about the absence of infrastructure though stand-up comedy, which can be found here https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1147542435847289

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    25 mins

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