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This time, we would like share with you lots of inspiring and interesting thoughts from our CAN friends who are energetically working on a Co-creation city in Jhenaidah, Bangladesh. The Essential Questions for Us as Architects is extracted and written by Suhailey Farzana and Khondaker Hasibul Kabir. So thanks so much to them for this great contribution!
Throughout our years of experiences building this network together, so many things have emerged on this path with lots of learnings, trust building, respecting, appreciating...
The CAN Co-creation process is now our experiment, and our way of creating the strength within people, and all the living organisms both visible and invisible.
Perween was with us in Bangkok, just two short weeks ago, for the big ACHR regional gathering, which took place February 23 - 28, 2013 - one of the rare regional meetings this busy and committed woman agreed to leave her work in Karachi to attend. On the second day of the meeting, during the special session on community surveys and mapping, Perween and her colleagues made a delightful and inspiring presentation about the maps they have been making and using for the last 32 years in Karachi and other parts of Pakistan."We're all mappers," she told us, in that voice of hers, which went up and down the scale like a flute. "We love maps! We are all the Ninja Turtles of mapping! Maps are to our work what x-rays are to a doctor's: they tell us where the problem is and how to resolve it." Although we couldn't have known it at the time, this was Perween's last presentation to her friends and colleagues in Asia, her farewell message to us. Here is the fully transcribed text of Perween's presentation.
