Author: Abid Mehmood

UN Habitat has recently launched the #HousingMatters campaign to raise awareness about housing as an essential need for people to live and thrive. For more information visit https://www.worldurbancampaign.org/housingmatters

We will be distributing awards and certificates to the winners, runners-up and the teams that participated in our Design Challenge in summer 2023. To celebrate the occasion, we are organising a special session ‘Place-based pluralist architecture: Designing affordable resilient homes’…

We are pleased to announce the results of the Design Challenge that concluded on 23rd August 2023. There were 22 teams that submitted Expressions of Interest. Of these 19 teams registered for the competition and 15 submitted the projects. The…

The third and final webinar in the series proved stimulated the discussion on community inclusion and democratic engagement. The panel brought together a wide range of experiences in academia, research, policy, social innovation, and entrepreneurship. Dr Maryam Siddiq raised the issue of thermal…

This proved to be a very informative discussion. The panel members represented interdisciplinary expertise in policy, research, practice and the civil society. Dr Abdur Rehman Cheema talked about uneven water usage and access between the Global South and North, and…

A big thank you to our panel for sharing their knowledge and experiences and the participants for very interesting discussion. Vasilena Vassilev showed examples of passive design featuring natural materials such as green walls with self-regulating systems to maximise sustainability…