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Share Roorkee: National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA) in collaboration with the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee, and support from Ministry of Housing and Urban affairs have successfully conducted public consultation meetings for revisions in guidelines and standards areas of universal accessibility in built environment in India. The consultation meetings were in the backdrop of ‘Building Accessible Safe Inclusive Indian Cities’ (BASIIC) program (supported by FCDO, UK government). The meetings, were held with persons with disabilities, elderly and their caregivers on 22nd ...

  About  An undergraduate, Indonesian student studying in Seattle. Interested in the relationship of architecture to be both ‘of a time” and being timeless. Currently completing a Bachelor's degree focused in Architectural Design from University of Washington College of Built Environments, currently on my last year and will graduate in June 2021. I am looking for internship opportunities that could add to my experience in the architectural field, as I have none yet. I am eager and passionate to learn in this field and I want to exercise my design skills through this experience as an in...

April 1, 2021 Washington State University’s School of Design and Construction and the University of Washington’s College of Built Environments are working together with Site Workshop, Gustafson Guthrie Nichol (GGN), and Berger Partnership to create an endowed scholarship in their respective landscape architecture programs to support students who identify as Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC). Site Workshop, a landscape architecture firm based in Seattle, began the process to establish the BIPOC LA Scholarship with WSU and UW in 2020. “For years we have discussed the need for...

March 3, 2021 A new cycle of grants from the Migrations initiative seeks to support work in migrations-related research, pedagogy and engagement with a specific focus on racism and dispossession. The Migrations initiative, part of Global Cornell, studies how all living things – humans, animals, insects, microorganisms, plant life – move, and the context in which they move. The initiative cultivates collaborations that advance science, scholarship, teaching, outreach and engagement in ways that generate new insights into critical world problems. In this round of funding, the Mellon Foundat...