Islamabad:
The third Harappa International Conference gathered leading scholars, urban planners, decision makers and cultural experts from around the world in the federal capital.
Theme, “Human Settlements in Transition: From Historical Roots to Future Visions in South Asia,” it was kicked on Friday at Comats University Islamabad.
The conference was inaugurated by Minister of Parliamentary Affairs Dr. Tariq Fazal Chaudhry.
In his address, Dr. Chaudhry the importance of drawing lessons from South Asia’s urban heritage to build inclusive and elastic cities.
He also emphasized the role of the conference in the connection of the young student at the Department of Architecture with their historical roots and urged students to actively contribute to initiatives aimed at national progress.
He further expressed his decision to take recommendations from such scientific events into consideration for decision making and relevant governing bodies.
By tacking the apartment, Comats University Islamabad repeated Rector Professor Dr. Sajid Qamar his commitment to improving Academia’s role in preserving and promoting built inheritance.
Dr. Qamar said we are at a critical intersection where rapid industrialization, urbanization and technological development transform the very substance of how and where we live.
In this context, revision of the lessons of the past not only becomes relevant but important. He said that as our cities today continue to expand in unsustainable ways, we see more critical issues such as environmental degradation and unequal access to public spaces that we need to change against visioning to tomorrow, while we are grounded in the wisdom of the past.
Karachi, who provided keynote speaker and technology, delivered the keynote speaker, Professor Dr. Noman Ahmed, acting headmaster at Ned University of Engineering and Technology, emphasized the urgent need for inclusive, elastic and context -sensitive planning to tackle South Asia’s rapidly developing urban landscapes.
