Limited Seats Only.
Course Objective:
In a very rare opportunity, one of the celebrated architects in Dubai will share his personal experiences and thoughts of the real impact of being an architects in the society. The hidden ways how architecture affects one’s life. This talk will open the minds of the attendees on how powerful architects are. A powerful social learning strategy that creates an environment of learning is through sharing experiences. Experiences are personal – but there is a lot of learning that can be derived from them.
Speaker: Joe Tabet
Topic: An Architect, a dictator
Date: August 29, 2018
Duration: 1.5 hour
Venue: Dubai Design District
People need places to live, work, eat and play. So, no matter where you go, you can see the impact of architects’ work. Architects design shopping centers, schools, office buildings, museums, hospitals, places of worship, airports, health clubs, residences and many, many other types of buildings.
Choosing architecture as your career puts you in an exclusive position to help shape once country. You can influence the way our communities look and function and positively impact our environment - a very important aspect of building functionality and sustainability in the 21st Century.
You can choose your personal level of impact by choosing your architectural specialty and where you practice. Think of a ring of concentric circles emanating outward from individual project to local to community-wide to regional to statewide to nationwide - and even international. There will always be a need for architectural expertise to design new buildings and rehabilitate old structures to accommodate current and future generations.
Moreover, we now know, for example, that buildings and cities can affect our mood and well-being, and that specialized cells in the hippocampal region of our brains are attuned to the geometry and arrangement of the spaces we inhabit.
Yet urban architects have often paid scant attention to the potential cognitive effects of their creations on a city’s inhabitants. The imperative to design something unique and individual tends to override considerations of how it might shape the behaviors of those who will live with it. That could be about to change.
6:00pm - 7:30pm registration
7:30pm - 7:40pm introduction of speaker
7:40pm - 9:10pm Talk Proper (An Architect, A Dictator) 1.5 hours
9:10pm - 9:30pm Q&A
9:30pm - 9:40pm Closing Remarks
