Meet Majd Al-Shihabi a technologist turned urban planner turned technologist-urban planner 🌆 Currently a PhD student at UofT 📚 Researching energy modeling for Toronto's climate action plan, TransformTO 🌍 Exploring participatory modeling & the ontology of models/methods 🤔 Passionate about forming epistemic communities & the right to the city 🏙️

Time Stamps:

0:00 Intro/Majd Background

1:15 Yarmouk camp, Syria from Palestine

5:45 Why Systems Engineering

9:30 Why Learn Planning in Lebanon

11:30 Why a PHD in Geography

12:30 Housing Vacancy in Lebanon

15:00 Mapping Palestine

17:00 Housing a Cross Cutting Lens

26:00 Political agency of Model Building

33:00 International Building Code & Double-Ended Corridors

42:00 The Code Impact on Community Building

43:00 Yarmouk Refugee Camp in Syria

47:00 Final Comments: Mental Health. Urban Isolation, Outro

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Thank you to the Infrastructure Institute for hosting us at their +(Plus) 2.0 Exhibition! To learn more about the institute and their exhibition work please visit: https://infrastructureinstitute.ca/exhibition/