Yasmin Ali

Architecture featured as part of DAZED & CONFUSED magazine's first music & arts' day festival

This April, Jefferson Hack's celebrated trend magazine DAZED & CONFUSED hosted its first multidisciplinary arts day festival in East London. I was heartened to see Architecture amongst the topics of the day talks, with AA graduate and architect Magnus Larsson billed to speak on the topic of 'Architecture and Biomimicry'.

Other talks included a plea from the Buy this Satellite initiative whose agenda is to free communications technology for the masses in third world countries, who are currently living in a dark age in terms of telecomms. Information access as a basic human right formed the cornerstone of their argument.

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Yasmin Ali

Hello and welcome to my blog as part of Urban Realm magazine. I'm an architectural journalist with a particular interest in participative urbanism.

This blog will have a number of different types of content, including the following:

• Event Reviews & Previews - Architecture, Planning, Art & Design
• Travel & days-out features with a design and urbanism focus
• Updated Links to the latest in research, debates and initiatives in urbanism
• An online column with commentary on topical issues surrounding urbanism

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