New Currents: Yasmeen Lari and Marina Tabassum

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Marina Tabassum and Yasmeen Lari argue for a humanistic, holistic and activist approach to architecture to help marginalised communities.

Architects Marina Tabassum and Yasmeen Lari explain how their humanistic, holistic and activist approaches interact with marginalised communities facing climate, conflict and flood risks. In Bangladesh and Pakistan respectively, they are pioneering new typologies that have yet to be defined in contemporary architecture.Yasmeen LariYasmeen Lari is Pakistan’s first female architect and ‘architect for the poorest’. Her work on affordable, sustainable, zero-carbon housing and disaster-resilient buildings for marginalised communities is groundbreaking. Her ‘barefoot social architecture’ programme aims to create a zero-donor model to lift poor communities out of the poverty trap. She co-founded the Heritage Foundation of Pakistan, which researches and preserves the country’s architectural heritage. In 2023, she received the <a href="https://www.ribaj.com/culture/profile-yasmeen-lari-architect-humanitarian-pakistan-poverty-homeless-shelters-limecrete" title="https://www.ribaj.com/culture/profile-yasmeen-lari-architect-humanitarian-pakistan-poverty-homeless-shelters-limecrete" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">RIBA Royal Gold Medal</a> for her humanitarian work.Marina TabassumMarina Tabassum is an architect and professor at Delft University of Technology. She founded <a href="https://marinatabassumarchitects.com/" title="https://marinatabassumarchitects.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Marina Tabassum Architects (MTA)</a> in Dhaka, in 2005. She strives to create an architectural language that is both contemporary and strongly connected to the place, taking into account nature, climate, culture, history and the environment. Her quest for ‘architecture of relevance’ has won her several international awards.Programme:<ul><li>19:00 Doors open</li><li>19:25 Welcome by the Nieuwe Instituut</li><li>19:30 Marina Tabassum: Architecture of Transition</li><li>20:00 Yasmeen Lari: The Global South Lens: Decolonise, Decarbonise, Democratise Architecture &amp; Urbanism</li><li>20:30 Discussion and Q&amp;A with the audience, moderated by Parvinder Marwaha</li><li>21:00 Closing remarks</li></ul>New Currents: Indian Ocean FuturesNew Currents is a Nieuwe Instituut research project that looks at the history, alliances and ideas around the <a href="https://nieuweinstituut.nl/en/projects/modernisms-along-the-indian-ocean" title="https://nieuweinstituut.nl/en/projects/modernisms-along-the-indian-ocean" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Indian Ocean</a>. The project asks: What are the movements of people, goods and ideas in the region, and what can they tell us about the future?This event is an initiative of New Currents in partnership with TU Delft.

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