Nov 6, 2020 / InfUr Webinar 5 / Gautam Bhan Keynote Lecture: Informality and the Pandemic

Nov 6, 2020 / InfUr Webinar 5 / Gautam Bhan Keynote Lecture: Informality and the Pandemic

Tanzil Shafique

GAUTAM BHAN, IIHS, Delhi

Informality and the Pandemic: Thinking about our conceptual vocabularies

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Abstract:

This year has been, in some senses, another marker of the limits of current urban practices and theoretical frameworks to understand as well as anticipate urban realities. This talk will reflect on what the current pandemic has shown us about the lifeworlds that the conceptual diad of formal/informal urbanism has sought to describe, understand and engage with. Drawing from the Indian experience of what happened in these lifewords, the talk will think through what stands, and what stands challenged, in the conceptual work that “informality” helps us do, across both spatial and economic informality in cities of the global south.

Tanzil Shafique
Tanzil Shafique

Tanzil Shafique, Assoc AIA, is a PhD researcher at the Melbourne School of Design. Previously, he was the Design Research Specialist at the Office of the Dean of the Fay Jones School of Architecture + Design at University of Arkansas, where, he worked also as a Project Designer at the University of Arkansas Community Design Center and was a faculty for the Urban Design Studio, leading the Urbanism Seminar. He graduated at the top of his M.Arch in Ecological Urbanism class from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York in 2014. His thesis was awarded the Faculty Graduate Award. He was practicing architecture in NYC before moving to Arkansas. Previously he taught undergraduate studios in BRAC University in Bangladesh. As part of the UACDC, his work has been awarded numerous AIA awards. He writes and lectures on design philosophy around the world. In 2016, he co-founded Estudio Abierto / Open Studio with Paco Mejias. 

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