For the 4th cycle, of the International Flagship conference on Water, Energy, and Environment for Sustainability (IC-WEES), the NUST School of Art, Design & Architecture (SADA) is pleased to announce the notion of Design for Solutions as its central slogan for the conference. The contemporary issues of environmental sustainability and the dilemma of depleting resources create an opportunity towards a hands-on solution-oriented thinking modules and innovative approach towards problem solving. The conference offers a succulent platform for interdisciplinary collaboration between thinkers, researchers, scholars, policymakers, and practitioners to develop a dialogue through the lens of design thinking. This conference serves as a pivotal arena for intellectual engagement and pragmatic discourse, focusing on the amalgamation of innovative design paradigms within the overarching realms of sustainability.
SPEAKERS
Professor Ian Oakley
Professor, School of Design and Human Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea.
Dr. Alice Sabrina Ismail
Director (Architecture Department) / Associate Professor, Department of Architecture, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Skudai, Johor
Prof. Maria Rita
Professor, University of Lusofona, Lisbon, Portugal
Haider M. Ibrahim
Architect at Nayyar Ali Dada & Associates, Founder at Resettling the Indus Project, Lahore, Islamabad
Dr. Suneela Ahmed
Associate Professor & Head of Department, Indus Valley School of Architecture, Karachi, Pakistan
Valentina Vavasis
Faculty with the School of Architecture at Carnegie Mellon University. United States
Vivian Loftness
Paul Mellon Chair and University Professor at Carnegie Mellon University and former Head of the Carnegie Mellon School of Architecture