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We started the discussion based on quotes and snippets found in Facebook chats specific to problems with the architecture profession from a women architect's point of view, to give us some ideas for future interviews. 

©️Talk Architecture 2023, Author: Naziaty Mohd Yaacob.  Photo credit - Image from the article:
https://www.architectural-review.com/essays/how-architecture-cheats-women-results-of-the-2017-women-in-architecture-survey-revealed

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Up next on Talk Architecture Season 12, we shall focus more on what is exactly happening using primary data with regard to architecture education and architecture practice. We shall be interviewing people who are concerned about these things. 

This is the link to Amin Zakaria's link featured in arch daily: 
https://www.archdaily.com/974048/top-11-architectural-sketch-educators Amin is one of those who will be featured in our future episode.

©️Talk Architecture 2023, Author: Naziaty Mohd Yaacob.  Photo credit ©️ Amin Zakaria: Architectural Sketch 

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A more detailed explanation of Design For All, precisely in the context of the Minister of Transportation in Malaysia's effort in the last 2 weeks to rectify the immediate problems of public transportation facilities such as lifts (elevators), escalators, and other issues, while proposing some points relating to accessible transportation.

©️Talk Architecture 2022, Author: Naziaty Mohd Yaacob.  Photo credit ©️ Universiti Malaya, Author: Eva Liew's Kerinchi Neighbourhood Park Linkage, image shows - Landscape design (social environment), recreation, and transportation were the concepts that Eva dealt with in her master plan.

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This is an overview discussion of the term 'design for all', defined, and explained from the 'activism' point of view, how it is implemented in architecture education from the first year to the fifth year and how it relates to architecture practice.

©️Talk Architecture 2022, Author: Naziaty Mohd Yaacob.  Photo credit ©️ Universiti Malaya, Author: Low Joo Yin's Street Market at Kampung Kerinchi, image shows - The designer came up with the idea of barter trading using recycling waste and created facilities to address this issue.

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Discussion on the architecture design thesis projects based on context-specific from 2016, focused on Kg Baru, Bukit Ceylon, Kg Kerinchi, Petaling Jaya old town, and UM Campus where the design problems were identified and were made challenges during the design process and how the recent political discussion and proposal on values and ideas such as TVET were dealt in those design thesis projects. Arguably justifying the means of doing these types of projects, which are more relevant than those fantastical ideas which are out of touch with society’s concerns.

©️Talk Architecture 2022, Author: Naziaty Mohd Yaacob.  Photo credit ©️ Universiti Malaya, Author: Amirul Hakim Ismar's TVET school has been addressed in the recent past of 15 years or so, by ministers and has been a subject of debate and is proposed to be the answer to unemployment and school leavers. The designer showed statistics and diagrams of the issues.

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The discussion in this episode is delving deeper into the relevance of the design thesis projects and architecture in dealing with real community architecture projects echoing real needs proposed by the Education Minister in presenting the core value discussed in Part 1. Examples from the 2019-2020 batch (Kg Kerinchi) and 2020-2021 batch (Old town Petaling Jaya) projects published at designthesis.wordpress.com.

©️Talk Architecture 2022, Author: Naziaty Mohd Yaacob.  Photo credit ©️ Universiti Malaya, Author: Wong Chiang Her's The Spine Module: Placing importance to the topography and lay of the land, usage and layering of activities that addressed the street, Chiang Her created an intriguing design solution.

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Focusing Core Value 3, proposed by the Education Minister on the poverty of children from B40 (The bottom 40% of the population) where it is to do with malnutrition, means or device or technology and spaces of learning, were dealt with in the design thesis projects from the 2019-2020 batch (Kg Kerinchi) and 2020-21, namely by Yasmin Nazihah and Chiang Her (both projects published at designthesis.wordpress.com)

©️Talk Architecture 2022, Author: Naziaty Mohd Yaacob. Photo (artwork): "Talk Architecture" by Naziaty Mohd Yaacob; Photo credit ©️ Universiti Malaya, Author: Yasmin Nazihah Hazizuldeen : The section shows from left the public layer of the “food and living corridor” where the parents are encouraged to sell food products and items and create a natural surveillance for the security of the school, yet creating a welcoming gesture for the community to be closer to the school. This public layer seamlessly leads to the semi-public spaces showcasing students’ work and activities that are more community oriented and the inner layers are the workshops and finally the classes for the quiet spaces and away from the noises.

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In light of the coming general election, we know that a degree in philosophy is not available  in Malaysian universities. How do university students learn about democracy and politics? 

Referring to the teaching of politics in universities, I would like to bring attention to utilizing practitioners including people from all background to teach and give their opinions in the architectural students learning process. This is about masterplanning and building projects in schools of architecture that allow the architectural student to role play as a developer and urban planner, for example. 

Using the campus design project that we were involved with a group of students in 2020, and how we ask questions about politics and philosophy, it interfered with the status quo’s interest hence this podcast talks about what could have been.

©️Talk Architecture 2022, Author: Naziaty Mohd Yaacob. Photo (artwork): "Talk Architecture" by Naziaty Mohd Yaacob; Bus Stop drawing by Kamelia Jambari

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Would you study in a school that focuses on drafting and construction or art, architecture and history with more thought-provoking work? Can we have both? We tried to do that when I was teaching in the final year (design thesis) and it is interesting that this issue was raised by others in a Facebook group full of architects. 

©️Talk Architecture 2022, Author: Naziaty Mohd Yaacob. Photo (artwork): "Talk Architecture" by Naziaty Mohd Yaacob; Bus Stop drawing by Kamelia Jambari

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What’s the difference between learning to draw by hand and using software or digital architecture tools? What’s the best software tool?  Someone asked the question why architecture companies prefer their employees to draw in Autocad as they felt that it’s easier to draw in Archicad and Revit. This led to many conversations and led me to believe that we lost the ability to design in 2D as we had when we hand-drawn. We lost the ability to design as much as could. 

©️Talk Architecture 2022, Author: Naziaty Mohd Yaacob. Photo (artwork): "Talk Architecture" by Naziaty Mohd Yaacob; Bus Stop drawing by Kamelia Jambari

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