2024
Laureates
I bring students from all over the world to Bangladesh. The focus is on fostering a deep understanding of the local context, they need to comprehend it with all of their senses. This is because design, in my view, extends beyond problem-solving; it involves creating a language absorbed through firsthand experience.
The main pedagogical tool is spending time together and making efforts to create spaces where we can listen attentively to each other. I became the architect I needed to be by teaching.
We suggest that our conception of reality shall move beyond the divisions of culture and nature, subjects and objects, humans and nonhumans. Instead, we propose and experiment with an equal ontological status of all actors in a process of co-design.
Education is essentially an emotional process. You take so much pleasure, so much happiness, in holding knowledge that you want others to experience that happiness as well; so you tell them about it and share your experiences.
We always advocate for the import and export of knowledge rather than the import and export of materials. Education and knowledge-sharing are not products but human relationships.




















