DAY 1 - Tuesday 16 January
8.30 - 9.00 Registration and Coffee
The sessions will take place in the Lab venue unless stated otherwise.
9.00 - 9.20 Welcome by Platforms / Roudaina Al Khani and and introduction to the Lab
Welcome by AUDI / Deputy General Mr. Abdullah Alsubil
9.20.9.30. Welcome by University of Westminster
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Session 1: Sustainable and Responsive Cities
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How can a holistic approach to our cities combining different strategies prompt more sustainable, liveable and resilient cities? How to meet the Kingdom Vision 2030?
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How to meet the Global Development Goals - the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals and the Habitat’s New Urban Agenda?
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What are the opportunities and challenges to our architecture, planning and city management?
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What can the world look like if women are more involved in city making?
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9.30 - 9.45
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9.45 - 10.10
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10.10 - 10.30
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10.30 -10.50
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10.50 -11.10
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11.10 - 11.50
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11.50 - 12.00
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Responding to challenges facing cities - KSA Vision 2030
Dr. Roudaina Al Khani, Director and Founder, Platforms
Masculine and Feminine cities: Complementary vision
Debate with the participants on architecture, inclusiveness, quality of neighbourhoods and public space, community involvement etc.
Women role in city design and development, and importance of network
Angela Brady, Director, Brady Mallalieu Architects, Past President of Royal Institute of British Architects, Design Council CABE Built Environment Exert
Sustainable city strategies and sustainability leadership - A holistic approach
Dr. Roudaina Al Khani, Director and Founder, Platforms
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Coffee break
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Interactive Workshop: Sustainable neighbourhoods
Kick-Off Paper: Urban Design Interventions for Informal Settlements: The Case of Ghulail, Jeddah
By Architect Students Sarah Abu AlHamail and Bayan Hallak
Group work and presentations moderated by Dr. Roudaina Al Khani
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Break
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Session 2: Wellbeing in the City
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How can cities offer better frameworks around our quality of life, health and happiness?
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What can we learn from local values?
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How can cities inspire each other?
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12.00 - 13.00
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13.00 - 14.15
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14.15 - 14.40
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14.40 - 15.05
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15.05 - 15.30
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15.30 - 15.50
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15.50 - 16.10
Envision a better quality of life for tomorrow’s cities
Urban specialist Marie Dariel, Director of A Thousand Faces, and Architect Declan O’Carroll, Practice Director Architecture and Masterplanning, Atkins
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Lunch break
Smart Technologies for more informed policies. Inclusive public spaces
and healthy cities
Dr. Areej Al-Wabil and Aljohara Alfayez, Center for Complex Engineering Systems at the King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) and MIT
Can architecture encourage happiness and wellbeing?
Nouha Hansen, BA Arch. Director of Architecture, Platforms
Landscape of the City for Memory and Belonging
Tala Bakhsh, BA Arch. MA Cultural and Creative Industries
Debate with speakers and participants on wellbeing in the City
Moderated by Marie Dariel and Dr. Roudaina Al Khani
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Coffee break
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Session 3: Resilience in the City
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How can prompting connected and inclusive cities improve resilience?
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How can preserving urban and regional cultural identities create resilient communities?
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How to manage the impacts of desertification?
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How can integrated, multi-scale strategies and collaboration improve community resilience?
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16.10 - 16.30
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16.30 - 16.50
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16.50 - 17.10
17.10 - 17.30
19.00
The role of identity in delivering more resilient cities
Georgia Watson, Professor and Research Director of Urban Design at Oxford Brookes University
Using resilience as a strategic engagement tool in cities
Kieran Power, Principal sustainability and resilience consultant, AECOM
Building urban resilience in the Arab Region
Nuha Eltinay, Director of Urban Planning and Sustainable Development, Arab Urban Development Institute
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Debate with speakers and participants on resilience in the city
Moderated by Dr. Roudaina Al Khani
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Official Lab Dinner - Sky Garden
Included in the registration
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DAY 2 - Wednesday 17 January
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Venue: University of Westminster - Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment
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Session 4: Responsive Architecture and Planning (context, visions and innovation)
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How can architects be agents of change and innovation?
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How to negotiate local settings?
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How can inspiration be adapted to new contexts? ​
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09.15 - 09.40
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09.40 - 10.10
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10.10 - 10.35
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10.35 - 10.40
10.40 - 11.10
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11.10 - 11.30
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11.30 - 11.55
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11.55 - 12.20
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12.20 - 13.30
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The Architecture of Ambivalence in Saudi Arabia
Dr. Sumayah Al-Solaiman, Dean of the College of Design, Imam Abdulrahman bin Faisal University
Planning for Sustainability and Resilience in Context
Tony Lloyd-Jones, Director of Consultancy and Research at Max Lock Centre, Reader and Course Leader, University of Westminster
Planetary Villagisation
Ben Stringer, Senior Lecturer, Faculty for Architecture and the Built Environment
University of Westminster
Introduction to the architectural exhibition:
Milton Keynes as a sustainable community- A work in progress
Exhibition visit
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Coffee Break
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Planning in context - A case study from Saudi Arabia
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Sustainable socio-cultural guidelines for neighbourhood design in Jeddah
Khadijah Fatani, presenting a paper by Khadijah Fatani, Mady Mohamed and Samah Al-Khateeb, Effat University, Jeddah
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Panel debate: The role of architects, architects/planners, local context, inspiration, innovation
Ben Stringer, Tony Lloyd-Jones, Dr. Faredah Almurahhem and participants
Moderated by Dr. Roudaina Al Khani
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Lunch break
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Session 5: Plans and Goals ​
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London Plan - Goals, priorities and tools - Working for a better city
Duncan Bowie, Senior research associate, Bartlett School of Planning, UCL
Vision led planning: to meet the challenges of our cities (Jeddah Plan)
Urban Planner Zainab Alireza, Senior Urban Designer at AECOM
In her place: Luke Self, Associate Director at AECOM
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Debate with speakers and participants - Understanding context and priorities
Moderated by Dr. Roudaina Al Khani
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Coffee break
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13.45 - 14.10
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14.10 - 14.35
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14.35 - 15.00
15.00 - 15.20
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Session 6: Community Involvement - from plan to urban activism
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How can community involvement inform city development, city planning and city management?
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How can the private sector in the new circular economy be a positive agent of change?
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What role can women and youth play as agents of change?
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How can urban activism and NGOs’ involvement be a catalyst of change?
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15.20 -15.45
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15.45 - 16.10
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16.10 - 16.35
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16.35 - 17.00
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17.00 - 17.15
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The role of circular economy in community inclusion and environmental sustainability to deliver Vision 2030
Dr. Dina Al-Nahdy, Jeddah, CEO ENTEC
Open spaces transformed our community
Mrs. Zakiah Bandagji, Founder of Friends of Jeddah Park/ Batool Abedi in her place
On the role of women and youth in city management
Dr. Haifa Al-Hababi, Assistant professor, Architecture and Interior Design Department
College of Engineering, Prince Sultan University
Debate with speakers and participants on community involvement
Moderated by Dr. Roudaina Al Khani
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Break
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Free Evening
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DAY 3 - Thursday 18 January
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Expert-guided visit to Oxford city
Venues: Oxford Brookes University, Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies and the Middle East Centre
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Trip moderated by Dr. Ahmad Sukkar, Expert in Islamic studies and the architecture- culture relationship.
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Session 7: Culture, Heritage and City 1
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What role can heritage play in strengthening communities’ and cities’ sustainability? How to understand the value of heritage in our current practice?
Can vernacular / islamic architecture inspire a new model for sustainability?
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08.00 - 09.30
09.30 - 10.45
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10.45 - 12.15
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12.15 - 13.30
Travel to Oxford
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Visiting the Middle East Centre, St Antony's College.
Meeting the Centre's Director, Professor Eugene Rogan and other academics.
Visiting the building - Building by Zaha Hadid
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Visiting Oxford City
Guided trip by Dr. Ahmad Sukker, Expert in Islamic Architectur
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Lunch in Oxford
Included in the registration
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Session 7: Education - Profession 1
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Venue: Oxford Brookes University
13.50 - 14.20
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14.20 - 14.50
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14.50 - 15.15
How to prepare urban designers and planners for a competent career with ethics and to meet sustainability challenges
Introduction to the new BA in urban design and planning
Laura Novo, Senior Lecturer in Planning and Urban Design, School of the Built Environment, Oxford Brookes University
Women’s role in the urban design profession
Georgia Watson, Professor and Research Director of Urban Design at Oxford Brookes University
Debate moderated by Dr. Roudaina Al Khani
Session 7: Culture, Heritage and City 2
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Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies
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15.45 - 16.10
16.10 - 16.50
16.50 - 17.15
17.30 - 19.30
19.30
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Introduction to Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies by Professor Farhan, Director.
Visiting the building - Building by Abdel Wahed Al-Wakeel
Debate moderated by Dr. Ahmad Sukker.
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Travel back to London
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Dinner
Included in the registration
DAY 4 - Friday 19 January
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Session 9: A Strong Women Network
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How can academic and professional women inspire and benefit from each other?
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How can questions around our cities be introduced in the different educational programmes to support a holistic approach to cities? ​
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Strengthening planning education to prepare a generation of professionals with an eye on local development and the SDGs
Dr. Giulio Verdini, University of Westminster, Course Leader Designing Cities BA
Strengthening architecture and art education
Dr. Effat Fadag, Director of ethics Centre of Art and Design at Dar Al-Hekma University, Jeddah, KSA.
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Coffee Break
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Culture and heritage through education
Dr. Faredah Almurahhem, PhD. Assistant Professor, Umm al-Qura University, Makkah
Saudi architects and planners between education and practice
Workshop on strengths, challenges and potentials
Led by Dr. Roudaina Al Khani
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General Lab reflections and perspectives
Dr. Roudaina Al Khani in dialogue with the participants
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Coffee
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9.30 - 10.00
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10.00 - 10.25
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10.25 - 10.45
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10.45 - 11.10
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11.10 - 11.45
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11.45 - 12.00
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12.00 - 12.30
Field Trip - Optional
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13.30 - 16.00 Walkable City
Study trip acros London historic and new neighbourhoods and spaces
Lunch during the walk
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17.30. Lumiere London. - Light Festival
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