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Ar. Ifrah Asif : Speaker at University of Pennsylvania’s, Weitzman School of Design’s

Ar. Ifrah Asif – lecturer and third-year architectural design studio instructor– was invited to participate as a speaker for the University of Pennsylvania’s, Weitzman School of Design’s Alumni Roundtable on Built Heritage Conservation in Asia – Trends and Practical Needs. The roundtable discussion was hosted online with other UPenn alumni from USA, India, Nepal, China, and Philippines also in participation. The diversity of participants added a broad range of perspectives to the discourse around heritage conservation in Asia.

The event was hosted on the 15th of March 2023 and featured the following speakers –

  1. Kecia Fong (moderator, MSHP ‘98), Lecturer, Graduate Program in Historic Preservation, Editor, Change Over Time
  2. Jharna Joshi (MSHP ’99), Architect, Visiting Associate Professor, Kathmandu University
  3. Christina Paterno (MSHP ’00), President, ICOMOS Phillippines
  4. Kuanghan Li (MSHP ’04), Director Assistant, WHITRAP (Beijing), Research Fellow, School of Archaeology and Museology, Peking University, Director of Global programs, Global Heritage Fund
  5. Bhawna Dandona (MSHP ’06), Co-Founder & Director, Meaningful Design Labs
  6. Ifrah Asif (MSHP ’21), Lecturer, School of Art, Design and Architecture (SADA), National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad, Pakistan

The Heritage Conservation in Asia Roundtable Series is an initiative of the Stuart Weitzman School of Design, Graduate Program in Historic Preservation. The purpose of the HCA Roundtables is to draw attention to how heritage and conservation in Asia are central to a raft of broader cultural, governance, urbanistic, and environmental concerns. Each roundtable features Penn faculty or alumni with diverse expertise and experience whose work in Asia or with Asian diasporic communities offers valuable perspectives and methodological approaches for evolving a global perspective on heritage and a more relevant conservation practice.

For more infromation, please visit – https://www.design.upenn.edu/events/built-heritage-conservation-asia-trends-and-practical-needs