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- playground@habib.edu.pk
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- 2nd floor, Habib University, Block 18, Gulistan-e-Jauhar – University Avenue, Off Shahrah-e-Faisal, Karachi – 75290, Sindh, Pakistan
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Hello, we invite you to a workshop at the Playground, focusing on design and usability goals. In this workshop, we take a closer look into defining the design goals and usability goals to help ensure true innovation. Innovation such that we start with designing the right thing, and not designing the thing right.
This is for everyone with a basic understanding of design to attend.
Use the link in our bio to register.
Come attend a workshop at the playground on Designing the Right Thing.
When: 11 am on Monday, 22nd of August, 2022
Where: at the playground, 2nd floor, Habib University
This is open for everyone with a basic understanding of design to attend. Register using the 🔗 given in our bio!
The playground invites you to attend a workshop on 'Human-Centered Approach to Innovation' led by Adoniah Carmeline.
Rescheduled to: 2:30 pm, Thursday, 18th of August, 2022
Where: The playground, Habib University
This is open for all to attend. You can register using the link in the bio. #innovationdesign
We invite all Habib University community to attend a theatre and poetry performance by HU students led by Muneera Batool and Dr. Ryan Davidson.
The animated short film Swipe (2020) takes on the nexus of technology and extremism, and sheds light on the weaponization of religion in contemporary Pakistan. The film won multiple accolades including best short film at the Oscar qualifying film festival, CINANIMA. It is also the first animated film from Pakistan showcased at Annecy 2021.
The screening will be followed by a discussion by Arafat Mazhar, the Director of Puffball Studios and multiple animated short films, including Shehr e Tabassum (2020).
When: 19th May 2022, 3:00pm
Where: Soorty Hall
Open for all Habib University students!
Theatre & Poetry
A ten-day workshop series for all Habib University students to register for using the link in our bio!
When: 2-5pm, 23rd May-3rd June
Where: The Auditorium, Habib University
This workshop is designed to introduce participants to the ways of theatrically performing their own poetry pieces, and will conclude with a performance of the participants’ Pantoums. Read more in the attached posters.
Limited seats // apply before 27th April, 11:59pm.
The Bottle Project in collaboration with Open Door Design Studio.
Mind mapping and ideation at the playground on day 1 and prototyping at the Open Door Workshop on day 2.
We invite you to a two-day practical workshop in collaboration with Open Door Design Studio that will focus on exploring the use of plastic bottles in order to create sustainable spaces. This is a waste material generated on a large scale in Karachi, a city with not much to offer in terms of vernacular building materials, and made unpleasant by the accumulation of waste.
Day1: 18th March, 2-5 pm at the Playground, Habib University
Day2: 19th March, 2-5 pm at the Open Door Design Studio
It is open for all to attend. Register using the link in bio!
We invite you to a two-day practical workshop in collaboration with Open Door Design Studio that will focus on exploring the use of plastic bottles in order to create sustainable spaces. This is a waste material generated on a large scale in Karachi, a city with not much to offer in terms of vernacular building materials, and made unpleasant by the accumulation of waste.
Day1: 18th March, 2-5 pm at the Playground, Habib University
Day2: 19th March, 2-5 pm at the Open Door Design Studio
It is open for all to attend. Register using the link in bio!
The playground is hosting a two-day workshop on software-based cartography by Zaineb Makati. Participants will learn to use an open source software, QGIS, and how mapmaking skills could aid in their respective disciplines.
When: 10 am on 16th and 18th March
Where: CPE Hall, first floor, Habib University
You can sign up using the link in our bio!
Workshop on Climate Change, Sexual and Reproductive Health and Gender happening now at the playground
Workshop on Climate Change, Sexual and Reproductive Health and Gender happening at the playground
The playground is partnering with Pathfinder to pilot a learning lab. This will consist of a series of workshops to apply the Human Centered Design approach to climate change, sexual and reproductive health to innovate solutions in the public health domain.
We invite you to the first workshop in the series on 12th March, 2022 from 2:30 - 5:00 pm at the playground, Habib University.
All Habib University students can apply through the link in our bio!
The Playground at Habib University hosted Invent for the Planet 2022 (IFTP 22) - a 48-hour intensive design experience (IDE) in collaboration with Texas A&M University (TAMU), from February 18 – 20. This event aimed to simultaneously engage students in all the universities around the world on a single weekend to solve high impact, global problems.
During the course of this event, the students engaged in a structured design process solving some of the most challenging problems in the world. They worked in teams with faculty and industry mentors and competed with teams all over the world. This 48-hour event provided students with the opportunity to acquire skills essential to becoming successful innovation leaders.
#iftp #iftp2022
At IFTP'22, the students got the opportunity to become part of multidisciplinary teams and collaboratively solve global problems. In the process, they not only worked under the tutelage of their faculty mentors but also experts from the industry who joined us in encouraging and mentoring them.
#iftp #iftp2022
This practical workshop aims to introduce participants to the growing urban forestry movement in the city, and in particular to the Miyawaki method of afforestation. We will focus on soil restoration, indigenous flora, benefits of urban forestry, and ways to combat Karachi’s growing nature deficit.
Date: Friday 25th February, 2022
Time: 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM (PST)
Where: Presentation at the Playground, 2nd Floor Habib University. Followed by a practical session in the Zen Garden
Register using the link in bio!
#ExploringUrbanEcologies
In this interactive session by Dastaangoi, we go behind the scenes of the founder story and ethos behind Dastaangoi. We will explore the natural evolution of the platform into a design studio, designing products with a focus on sustainability and technology. We also get to do an exercise around design thinking in our own environments.
Date: Monday 28th February, 2022
Time: 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM (PST)
Where: Online via Zoom
You may register using the link in our bio! #DesigningForCircularity #ImaginingFutures
We invite you to attend a skill-based online workshop, CONTROLLED CHAOS : Inter Medium Experimentation, by Areeb Tariq. Areeb is an experimental designer and an artist running his own design practice by the name of Ajeeb Studio.
When: Monday, 14th February 2022
Time: 5:00 PM - 7:30 PM (PST)
Where: Online via Zoom
Register using the link in bio!
#ImaginingFutures
We are excited to kick off this year with the theme Designing Planetary Futures and invite you to attend Design with Nature, a documentary screening followed by a speculative discussion on ways to design a more sustainable future for Karachi, whilst adapting to an ever-changing environment.
When: Tuesday, 11th January 2022 from 2:30-4pm
Where: Soorty Hall, Habib University
Open for all! Register using the link in bio. #ExploringUrbanEcologies
This year, as part of Designing Planetary Futures we will be exploring the themes of Designing For Circularity, Imagining Futures and Exploring Urban Ecologies.
Designing for Circularity | Sustainable systems and product design
Our production-consumption systems and throwaway culture have many consequences for the environment in terms of resource extraction, waste generation and emissions. An economic model built on circular supply chains and material use can substantially reduce the environmental burden. However, it requires fundamental shifts in our consumption behaviours and relationship with resources.
This year, as part of Designing Planetary Futures we will be exploring the themes of Designing For Circularity, Imagining Futures and Exploring Urban Ecologies.
Imagining Futures | Speculating for our planet
Imagining is the first step towards making change happen. We have to look for hope to inspire us to act. We will be using the power of different mediums like illustration, storytelling, film and media to speculate futures, create new narratives and visualize the change we want to see. Through creative endeavours we can start conversations, provoke action and build movements.
This year, as part of Designing Planetary Futures we will be exploring the themes of Designing For Circularity, Imagining Futures and Exploring Urban Ecologies.
Exploring Urban Ecologies | Socially and environmentally responsible design strategies
The interrelations between urban communities and their natural and built environments are complex. Our concrete landscapes need to support the needs of native ecosystems. We will be combining urbanism with ecology, and design with systems and policy, to explore how cities can sustain both people and nature.
The playground is bringing together a community of collaborators and experts across disciplines, to investigate how we should inhabit the world in the face of the climate crisis. It is through dreaming, mapping, making, experimenting and taking action, that we can start collectively Designing Planetary Futures
#planetcentereddesign #people #transdisciplinary #collectivefutures #regeneration #technology #globalsouth
Design needs to be slower and more deliberate. We can no longer be exploitative, extractive and wasteful. We need to imagine new ways of living, consuming and distributing in order to build regenerative futures. Indigenous ecological knowledge, geoengineering and circular economies are some of the models and methods we need to explore and understand.
#planetcentereddesign #people #transdisciplinary #collectivefutures #regeneration #technology #globalsouth
The playground is bringing together a community of collaborators and experts across disciplines, to investigate how we should inhabit the world in the face of the climate crisis. It is through dreaming, mapping, making, experimenting and taking action, that we can start collectively Designing Planetary Futures
#planetcentereddesign #people #transdisciplinary #collectivefutures #regeneration #technology #globalsouth
Human activities have changed the Earth System to the point where we are in a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene. Climate change, biodiversity loss, waste and pollution are among the biggest challenges we will face in our lifetime. This is estimated to cost Pakistan $3.8 billion yearly in economic loss.
#planetcentereddesign #design #people #transdisciplinary #collectivefutures #regeneration #technology #globalsouth
The playground is bringing together a community of collaborators and experts across disciplines, to investigate how we should inhabit the world in the face of the climate crisis. It is through dreaming, mapping, making, experimenting and taking action, that we can start collectively Designing Planetary Futures
#planetcentereddesign #design #people #transdisciplinary #collectivefutures #regeneration #technology #globalsouth
