- Date
- Thursday 24 May 2018, 12:30 - 13:30
- Type
- Lecture
- Spoken Language
- English
- Room
- T14-classroom 1 & 2
- Building
- Mandeville Building
- Location
- Campus Woudestein
The talk will focus on how in the phase of rapid urbanisation in many countries around the world, creating a sense of identity through design of settlements can help create sustainable environments and societies.
The way to do this is through combining historic wisdom and new innovative technology. Through examples of his own work in different locations, Shyam Khandekar will illustrate how the thoughts he professes can be realised.
In all these designs, public spaces play a major role in creating happy, healthy and sustainable societies. He will further argue that to create healthy cities, the only way forward is through a new approach to pedestrianisation, in which innovative technology and a new approach to byelaws will have to go hand-in-hand.
Shyam Khandekar
Urban Designer, Urban Planner & Architect
Netherlands and India
An alumnus of IHS (1973), Shyam has a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture from IIT, India, a Master’s degree in Urban Planning from Technical University of Delft and a Master’s degree in Urban Design from the University of Manchester, UK. He has over 4 decades of professional experience, most of it through his multi-disciplinary practice in the Netherlands. In the last decade he has also led multi-disciplinary design teams for large projects in India. He has lectured and published extensively on different aspects of Liveable Cities for All at universities and conferences around the world. Besides running his design practice, Shyam Khandekar is also Co-Founder and Editorial Director of the international magazine and Knowledge-platform MY LIVEABLE CITY and Founder of the DAIDA Foundation in Netherlands.