The Right to housing: a socially just and sustainable built environment

The Right to housing: a socially just and sustainable built environment, is an initiative working to promote dialogue that aims to link issues of our built environment to the right to housing. If this basic right were to be respected, what change in built environment policy could communities expect that would see long term solutions to the problems and challenges that face their cities, towns and villages?
The talk will be in Arabic.

Bio:

Yahia Shawkat is an architect and built environment researcher. He is currently working on the Right to Housing Initiative which aims to promote constructive dialogue on housing rights and the built environment through a series of info-videos and a better practices guide to urban planning for students and activists.

Through his blog, Shadow Ministry of Housing, he critiques built environment policy, while his research has covered non-motorised transport, participatory design, historic environmental migration in the Delta and the effect of World Bank policy on the built environment.
In 2008, Yahia curated the Egyptian Pavilion at the 11th Venice Biennale. He received the National Award for Architecture in 2010 and has been nominated for the Aga Khan Award for Architecture.
http://blog.shadowministryofhousing.org