Decolonizing Design : Making Many Worlds Possible Through ‘Other’ Discourses & Practices
Date and location 22/06/2018 Playground
Research through Making: Practice Based Research in Design
Date and location 19/06/2018-19/07/2018 PlaygroundApart from developing an understanding of the diverse landscape of research of, for, and by design, we will learn how to design artefactually-driven research experiments, making prototypes and simulations to investigate human behavior across space and time.
Uncovering Design Ecologies: Thinking in Systems
Date and location 19/06/2018-19/07/2018 PlaygroundThis course intends to introduce participants to concepts, approaches and methods in applied systems and complexity theory. We will explore different ways of observing, analyzing, and describing socio-technical systems, with a view to then being able to determine where best to intervene in them, and determine what the nature of those interventions, whether they are artifacts, services, experiences, environments or platforms, should be.
Showcase: Final Year Capstone / Thesis Projects
Date and location 14/05/2018-17/05/2018 Playground
Read to Lead
Date and location 23/04/2018 Tariq Rafi Lecture Theater, Habib UniversityAn initiative of Habib University Library and Information Commons & the Arzu Center Join us...
In Memory of Dr. Saba Mahmood
Date and location 10/04/2018 Habib UniversityDr. Saba Mahmood was Pakistan’s top scholar in the humanities and social sciences. She was globally renowned for her incisive work on the most critical issues of today, including religious and political identity, secularism and the modern state, as well as gender and Islam.
Design: The New Liberal Arts in a Tech-Culture?
Date and location 06/04/2018 Tariq Rafi Lecture Theater, Habib UniversityAbout The traditional liberal arts provided "an integrated understanding of human experience," in the 20th...
Shahbaz Qalandar: A Documentary on the beliefs of the Qalandariyya Sufi Order of Sehwan
Date and location 05/04/2018 Soorty HallShahbaz Qalandar: A Documentary on the beliefs of the Qalandariyya Sufi Order of Sehwan Film...