Urban Water, Food and Waste Cycling, and Socio-economic Equity

#IMPRI Center for Habitat, Urban and Regional Studies (CHURS), IMPRI Impact and Policy Research Institute, New Delhi invites you to an IMPRI #WebPolicyTalk series:

The State of Cities – #CityConversations

Urban Water, Food and Waste Cycling, and Socio-economic Equity

Details of the #WebPolicyTalk:

Date: September 9, 2021
Time: 6:00 p.m. IST
Platform: Zoom and Facebook Live

Speaker:

Suhasini Ayer
Architect and Urban Planner; Co-founder, Auroville Centre for Scientific Research (CSR), Auroville, Tamil Nadu

Suhasini Ayer, Architect / Urban Planner; co-founder of the “Auroville Centre for Scientific Research (CSR)” Trust; a collaborative organisation with multiple agents and agencies working in the area of applied research in sustainable settlement planning, solar passive architecture, appropriate building materials and technologies, water and waste management and renewable energy.

She heads the “Auroville Design Consultants”, a planning and architectural design studio, primarily focused on planning, designing and implementing the applied research development projects within Auroville to field test the innovations and research carried by CSR and other organisations within Auroville.  

The studio is also active in providing planning and design consultancy integrating the experiential learning of the applied research projects into the design vision while responding to the natural and human geography, local climate and culture to evolve minimal and elegant built forms. The underlying theme in all the projects is the creating integrative systems, including water, energy, waste, building materials and technology to create passive sustainable networks between the people to the built and un-built spaces, to empower them to take responsibility for their environment.

Chair:

Dr Shyamala Mani
Professor (Retd.) National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA), New Delhi;
Senior Advisor, Centre for Environmental Health, Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI), Gurugram

Discussants:

Dr Fawzia Tarannum
Assistant Professor, Department of Regional Water Studies, TERI School of Advanced Studies (TERI SAS), New Delhi

Live Video: https://fb.watch/7W0aSBSubY/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBki6fquN90
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