The Medina Forum is a weekly urban planning “round-table”. Prominent urban planners, designers and industry specialists are often invited from various countries and regions to deliver their knowledge and present their insights on current issues pertaining to the built environment.
The forum’s mandate is to invite leading practitioners and academicians to speak on issues of urgency, interest and relevance to the community oftm UAE urban planning and architecture educators, practitioners, and students and to facilitate on going interaction and collaboration among academia, government and industry.
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Thursday April 19, 2007
Globalization/ Flat World/ Local Essences-Persian Gardens and
Architecture:
A Brief Case Study
Mr Frank Farrokh Sabouri, AIA, Leed,ap |
Wednesday 07th December 2005
Virtual and Augmented Reality: New Tools for Urban Design
Ahmed Okeil
British University in Dubai |
Wednesday 14th December 2005
Virtual and Augmented Reality: New Tools for Urban Design
Ahmed Okeil
British University in Dubai
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Wednesday 25th January 2005
Caravan Pakistan: Rebuilding After the Earthquake
George Weiss
American University of Sharjah
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Wednesday 23rd February 2005
Back to Basics: An Organic Approach to Urban Spaces in the 21st Century
Brian Johnson, Principal, GAJ
(Godwin Austen Johnson Chartered Architects)
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Wednesday 2nd March 2005
The Role of Environmental Planning in Dubai’s Mega Projects
Rashid M. Karkain
Dubai Municipality
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Wednesday 23rd March 2005
Urban Form and Transportation in a Rapidly Growing City: The Case of Abu Dhabi
Dr. Ibrahim Al Sanhouri
De Leuw Cather International
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Saturday 2nd April 2005
Shaping Minds Not Space: Strategic Planning and the Use of Spatial Images
Wouter Jacobs
Radboud University, Netherlands
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Wednesday 4th May 2005
Nakheel’s Projects, Leading Dubai into a Prime Urban Landmark
Shekoufah Abdulla and Dr. Imad Haffar
Kakheel
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Wednesday 4th May 2005
Afghan Women in Development: A Progress Report
Lina AbiRafah
Visiting Scholar, American University of Sharjah
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Wednesday 18th May 2005
Young People as Agents of Change in the Environment
David Driskell
UNIESCO – MOST, New York
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Wednesday 16th November 2005
Lessons Learned from the New Master Plan of the King Fahad University of Petroleum and Minerals
Dr. Adel Aldosary
King Fahad University of Petroleum and Minerals
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Paris: Decoding an Urban Palimpsest
Dr. Mona El Mosfy
American University of Sharjah
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Sana’a (Yemen) in the Context of Islamic Urbanisation
Dr. Sabah Mustafa
AUST
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Monday 6th February 2006
The Expression of Cultural Identity in Kuwaiti Architecture
Dr. Yasser Mahgoub
Kuwait University
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