Arab Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology
June 1 to 3, 2010, Ardalan Associates Submission of Concept Master Plan and Concept Designs for the Arab Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology , Al Ain, UAE for the UAE University and the ACGEB.
Urban Heritage in Islamic Countries: Its Role in Culture and Economic Development
May 23-28, 2010- Nader Ardalan, Invited Speaker, Paper entitled: Luminous Thinking-
Architecture, Nature and Islamic Culture at the first international conference “ Urban Heritage in Islamic Countries: Its Role in Culture and Economic Development”, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Under the sponsorship of His Majesty the Custodian of the two Holly Mosques, King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz, the Saudi Commission for Tourism and Antiquities (SCTA), in cooperation with the Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Culture & Information, King Saud University, the Heritage Foundation, the Research Centre for Islamic History, Art, and Culture (IRCICA) in Istanbul, shall organize this first international conference .
SCTA is gathering world prominent leaders and pioneers in the field of architecture and urban heritage development and investment, including academics, professional societies and private sector firms as well as craftsmen dealing with the reconstruction and qualifying of heritage building & sites as an economic components of modern urban and tourism development and as a cultural catalyst between cultures. Tourism and culture ministers and world organizations (UNESCO, UNWTO, OWHC, ICCROM etc) have been invited to attend and give speeches and presentations.
4th International Ajman Urban Design Conference
March 28-31, 2010 Nader Ardalan, Invited Speaker- Paper entitled: “The Gulf as Microcosm of the World” and poem entitled:”The Cry of the Sea” at the 4th International Ajman Urban Design Conference entitled: Waterfront: Trends in New Urbanism, Ajman Municipality, UAE
THE SUSTAINABLE IDENTITY QUEST” DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ART
March 12, 2010 Nader Ardalan- GUEST SPEAKER- “THE SUSTAINABLE IDENTITY QUEST”
DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ART, Detroit Michigan
The New Arab Urbanism in the Gulf
January 1 to December 31, 2010- Nader Ardalan and Dr. Steven Caton awarded Harvard University Kennedy School Middle East Initiative, Kuwait Foundation Research Grant entitled: The New Arab Urbanism in the Gulf.
An architect/planner, Nader Ardalan, and a social anthropologist, Steven Caton, team up to do focused research on the new urbanism in the Gulf Region with a focus on four of the new e-education cities: Academic City in Kuwait (New Shedadiyah Campus for Kuwait University); Masdar Institute of Science & Technology (MIST) in Abu Dhabi (promoted as the energy and technology city of the future); UAE University New Campus, Al Ain; and Education City in Qatar (represented as a knowledge and media hub from which information disseminated around with world). A series of Focus Groups, personal interviews with senior decision makers and site observations were made in January & February, 2010. They asked two basic research questions: the architect asked, “To what extent are their built environments ecologically sustainable?” the anthropologist asked, “To what extent are their societies resonant with local cultural values, while emerging into a global culture of diverse demographic constituencies with sustainable meanings and sensibilities?” The Results of the Research Findings will be published in spring, 2011.