When illusions are understood as reality
by Prof Dr Norbert Pintsch
When day in and day out it is spoken about progress and developments, it is inevitable to not believe this and see it as a reality.
There is a long way to go to understand this all around as a mistake. It is very difficult, actually impossible to exclude yourself. You are part of the overall system.
The only option is to look at yourself and limit obvious undesirable developments through your own behavior.
To recognize greed in one own self, who can happily admit to that? - You had only wanted to improve a technology, wanted to optimize a process flow, wanted to help the general public through improved medical care.
The chain of wanting to do something can go on endlessly.
-whether new ways are found in the food production in which artificial meat is used and animals that are pumped full with medicines so they do not have to be kept for long,
-whether food is no longer carted over long distances and large amounts and is now replaced by local solutions,
-whether computers are increasingly used in the educational sector to improve the -supposed- educational level,
-whether the mobility is made more environmentally friendly through the use of other energies,
A look at what was originally called culture and which, due to global industrialization, now represents a fantastic civilization, actually prevents us from acknowledging the basic reality of existence: transience!
Through the mutation from childlike belief to supposed solid knowledge, from religion to science, essential basic elements of the unchangeable existence on this planet have been lost and replaced by fictitious numbers. Fiction is reflected, intentionally or unintentionally, in greed and greediness. We assume, that whatever can be numerically outlined, it exists!
At the lowest level there is poverty and hunger - values that are oriented towards the upper levels and the urge and compulsion to reach to the upper levels, with better living conditions. The upper level is supposed to represent the success of a so-called research and development schemes.
Progress and development live in the transparency of the invisible mist, curiosity is mistaken for prudence and wisdom!
Everything is possible...
Labels: Aamir Rafique, AFA, DGFK, FPAC, IPC, Prof Dr Norbert Pintsch
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 5:13 PM,
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Background – Examples – Affects / Conclusion
by
Prof Dr Norbert Pintsch, IPC, FPAC
BACKGROUND
Various activities were undertaken in the Berlin period by the IPC (Charly, Johnny, etc.), which can be disregarded in the present consideration. A special project was the Power Box, a joint effort between Germany and Malaysia (see: www. ...).
With increasing international activity from 1990, which started in Pakistan and then continued into Cameroon, Colombia, etc., new challenges were encountered in the field of construction methods and technology.
EXAMPLES
In the TTTC of the AeFeA (NGO) in Pakistan, solar cookers, solar dryers, windmills (Savonius principle), hot water heaters, also a power box, for applications in rural areas and able to be locally produced, i.e. also without electricity and special tools, were made available and accessible not only to the villagers, but also to student visitors for educational purpose.
The objects were made in small quantities, distributed and sold and explained in lectures and workshops - from Adamkot in the south to Bahawalnagar to Abbottabad.
In the case of building methods, foremost the “women's center”, a competition for building samples was carried out, with a jury, awards and an exhibition. Not only experiences from excavations in the ancient city of Harappa by M. Kenoyer (three-layer wall construction used 5000 years ago, today referred to as passive solar architecture) were used, but also tests carried out in the wind tunnel of the TU Berlin before building, in order to ensure natural ventilation and air circulation cycles; The village and the planned development were modeled in accordance with the results of the study.
Different materials were used for the buildings (mud bricks, hollow bricks, solid wall and combinations with insulating material, also upside-down clay pots). The temperature was measured regularly at fixed points in order to use the experiences for later buildings (Lahore, D.I.K.). The experimental buildings in Lahore (PCC and BNU) were financed by the German Embassy and the IPC, the one for DIK (flood victims) by the Rotarians and with the help of the SES. The objects for the flood victims also considered results of developments in adapted technology. The building experiments in the BNU led to establishment of an Institute for Experimental Buildings (IEC, see www. ...).
The requirements for AT (alternative technology) and AB (adapted, climate-friendly construction) were different in Pakistan, Cameroon, Colombia, but similar in prevailing conditions (lack of tools, lack of electricity, etc.).
In Bamenda/Cameroon a permanent exhibition for AT and AB was created in the Center for Adapted Techniques (CAT, NGO), with workshops, lectures and presentations from Douala to Bafoussam to Maroua. A cooperation with the BUST led to the founding of the IAM; CAT's work has received several awards and it has been praised in press articles, the crown was thereby the establishment of RUC / Royal University Centre.
With the support of the then GTZ, as well as the IPC, also with the support of the SES, Misereor, etc., CAT-clubs were established in the districts of the former NW province; the Kids-Club in Bamenda conducted and still conducts environmental workshops, despite the turbulent situation in the English-speaking areas.
In Colombia, TM (ONG) Saboya was able to bring awareness about AT to the people in the town; Through cooperation with a workshop in Chiquinquira, equipment was manufactured for schools (to explain and raise awareness of the students about AT) and remote Fincas (independent of power supply) and introduced for use. A particular success was the branch in Leticia on the Amazon with the assistance of the National University in Bogota (including a course for environmental technology as a run-up to an exhibition in the Museum Leopoldo Rother with material from Germany ). IdEpeT, an institution for like-minded people, was established in project and partner locations. In Colombia, the project work was supported by IPC, DGFK, Misereor and SES.
EFFECTS
If one asks about the achievements of the activities outlined, then, according to spectacular reports in the media, they are visible in everyday life. Everyday life includes coping with the normal demands of life and dealing with other developments. People in rural areas in particular are subject to enormous information pressure from the cities. In order to appear open minded, ideas are being adopted which are usually not compatible with the environment. There is a certain tragedy in the subsequent realizations of the townsfolk, whose previous influence on the rural population had already had a negative impact on the environment. A certain traditional conservative attitude can be helpful here, but it will be difficult for the willing and affected to maintain it.
A remarkable example was the experience in a Pakistani village - one lived there, in today's sense very environmentally friendly, was economical with water and fuel! And all this without much dependence on the urban areas.
CONCLUSION
All in all one can say: Good ideas require the right point in time and a minority that lives what it considers right and environmentally friendly!
Labels: Bamenda, Berlin, Chiquinquira, Cultura e V, DGFK e V, FBTC, FPAC, IPC Cheyenne, Lahore, Nauen, Prof Dr Pintsch, SPAETcolombia, SPARC project, SPATHcameroon
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 8:45 AM,
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When reality and pseudo-reality alienate each other
by
Prof Dr Norbert Pintsch / IPC, FPAC, FBTC
INTRODUCTION:
Literature and quotations are deliberately avoided here.
So that it becomes easier to ignore
One can confidently dedicate oneself to pleasant things of the virtuality.
The short text is dedicated to the few students and open minds in the RUC.
SCIENCE AS SUPERFICIALITY
Sensitive or explosive topics attract interested parties. They want to learn more and the especially the good ones want to have a list of publications in order to control, discard, expose the author of a challenging article, to accuse of unscientific approach, - and by the way to convey; everything is in the best of order, and if not, then it will be soon!
Read more »Labels: DGFK e V, FBTC, FPAC, IPC, Prof Dr Norbert Pintsch, SPAETcolombia, SPARC project, SPATHcameroon
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 11:15 AM,
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An ignored or suppressed facet of economics
by Prof Dr Norbert Pintsch / IPC
Neither the micro (business administration) nor the macro (national) economic theories waste any thoughts on the topic of reallocations. If the available tools were to be used, the results would be unusable because they would either contradict or oppose the prevailing models or remain unnoticed.
Thanks to the corresponding educational institutions, the medium-sized enterprise has spread, which is based on the global ideology of growth - without asking whether the mere addition of artificial systems and structures really makes sense. There is no answer to the question of possibility changing the prevailing position. One can say philosophically: What is not allowed to be, cannot be!
Another question, how can one reduce the bogus resources, the question which is almost obsolete, so that there are also no answers.
The idea of armed conflict has not developed further and still follows archaic ideas. This is not entirely wrong, because life is not a peaceful coexistence of plant and animal beings, but always a struggle for food, which is banned from the visual field of the humans due to cultural terminology, like greed, envy, ambition, courtship, etc., which are still the fuel of life.
The thought is allowed: warfare is still prevalent but it is different now. Pure Show of strength with winners and losers is still a tradition; however nowadays it takes place in what is called sport and means the destruction of resources on a different economic level.
The sociological lower class, not exactly a perfect term, to cut down on its possibilities is not successful, since the potential for suffering seems to be limitless there. When looking at regions of crisis, it is easy to think that an eruption point has been reached there - but there is always a hope for small and medium-sized companies, which arises out of global media influence and hope of improvement.
No change or redeployment can be expected from the upper class, a superficial, but nevertheless befitting term - that to assume is almost grotesque. The above character traits, greed, etc. have always generated an internal pecking order and leader positions – which have now - washed up on the surface. The following applies: Nothing lasts forever!
What remains in the globalized world? - The middle class, which is willing enough for any manipulation if there is a trace of improvement in life.
This could be applied, if there were one common sense; it will take some time and in Fragments before the need for a shift or change is suspected.
These thoughts of becoming conscious always arise from the past, take place in a now which is not prepared for the future.
Helpful is the limitless unteachability, which arises from the proverb: suffering a loss makes one wiser, and leads to short-sighted and short-termed hope into the game of everyday life. The unteachability fits seamlessly into the so-called science of micro- and macro-economics, the game and speculation elements of which are reflected in stock market news in which marketing is to be carried out with the end result of resources being reduced.
Labels: Aamir Rafique, AFA, DGFK, FPAC, IPC, Prof Dr Norbert Pintsch
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 5:32 AM,
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What one thinks to believe, it is better to be silent about it
by Prof. Norbert Pintsch, SRF/FPAC
If one were to take the statements of the heading and the subtitle to heart, there would only be social noises on the planet, such as: Oh, so, - ah, yes, So-so, - the difference to cattle on a pasture would not be very big, - whereby the principles: coming-staying-going are still true for all life!
Presumably, there are special relationships in each individual thoughts and Expression. Where do the thoughts come from and where do you get the names in the spoken expression? It is a lengthy process that starts even before the schooling and is always associated with imprints from the respective cultural environment.
When the schooling starts, "half the matter" is already set, and it would not be false to say if - instead of the schooling, individual experiences were being made. In the existing, impact-oriented life styles, there are various stipulations that hardly allow any space for deviations from the standard.
When special challenges arise in the increasingly globalized and digitized world with its unification and uniformity doctrines, we are not equipped to handle them. Attempts to find solutions can only be undertaken with existing instruments, whether in research, development, production!
The call for creativity and innovation is acoustically understandable. But cannot be implemented because the huge system is stuck. Weaknesses and general problems are repaired, refurbished, modernized. Short-sighted and short-term action and financial success are the yardstick, although human weaknesses are reflected in all undertaken measures.
Special situations such as wars, (natural) disasters, illnesses - specially of longer duration, offer both opportunities and challenges. So you have to think about the causes and act accordingly. This however contrasts with the persistence of global political, social and large economic systems.
However, the individual can, in parallel and during the course of usual schooling and qualification phase, step alongside oneself and practice free thinking. A fundamental effect would be to find out what is actually believed and what is factually known, see heading and subtitles. The resulting knowledge leads to a shock!
Such a shock is the prerequisite for the beginning of independent thinking and will not be based on the quantity of publications studied. Perhaps even the childhood impressions have to be taken into account in order to process the subsequent schooling.
Wars, disasters, diseases - they are challenges and opportunities to understand yourself and the environment and to move from the short-sighted and short-term effect-oriented to the far-sighted and long-term cause-oriented action and effect. It means free thinking - a luxury that everyone can afford, even if the daily problems of the cost of living and making sense of life are still to be overcome!
Labels: AFA, DGFK, FPAC, IPC, Prof Dr Norbert Pintsch
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 11:43 AM,
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By Omar M. Ali
You will need to go back a bit in the project history of the AFA (NGO).
Notes can be found under (http://pppachieve.blogspot.com/), among others, organized SPARC 1994 - 1996 LIFE (Lahore International Festival of EduTainment), in which a bridge between traditional art, here: arts and crafts, including dolls from AFA and HiTechArt, including computer graphics, in cooperation with the DGFK
In the Directory (see in http://pppachieve.blogspot.com/) you can find the village project listed as Vocational Training Center under the supervision of Dr. Senta Siller.
Although a lot of time has passed, there is still the opportunity to officially accredit the former Women Art Center, now called SSDC, through NAFTTC, so that craftsmanship skills can be further improved and the knowledge passed on to newcomers.
This will also allow the NGO to revitalize SHE (School for home economics, see: https://archive.org/details/SHEProject) and set a mark for special development in the region, not just to trainers from the area, but also students from various disciplines can be included.
Labels: AFA, DGFK, FPAC, IPC, Lahore-Berlin, Omar M. Ali, Prof Dr Norbert Pintsch, Senta Siller Design Centre
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 10:13 AM,
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by Norbert Pintsch IPC, FPAC
TTP / FBTC and FPAC are networked with SPARC-SPAET-SPATH-SPOCA-SEMOL-SUTOL
After sketching the topic HOUSING in three publications (Housing, Population and Housing, Systems and Housing), TTP is now entering a new phase.
Although the topic of communication and information has been treated in various essays over the years, experience has also been gained with contemporary techniques, but now the problems arising from the cultural model and its inter-dependencies, as well as system considerations on general housing meed to be discussed.
There are misunderstandings from small groups to large groups, and it is more than a miracle that an exchange is possible at all.
It is not only the basic communication, which is a problem.
If one were to orient oneself towards Wittgenstein (which one is not supposed to talk about, one has to be silent about it), then hardly any communication and information should be taking place.
In the assumption of better understanding, new terms are invented, which instead of closer definition create still new questions and thus new answers with new terms and for improvement with the same, similar or different concepts or ideas.
Already the analogue exchange of ideas on earth is more than problematic, but when the digital exchange comes into play with additional time or distance factors, then arise the real problems!
Housing in the closed system is the protection, the material protection, - the immateriality that demands the traditional humanity!
Labels: CULTURA, DGFK, FBTC, FPAC, IPC, Prof Dr Norbert Pintsch, SEMOL, SPAET, SPARC, SPATH, SPOCA, SUTOL
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 2:28 PM,
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By Norbert Pintsch, IPC, FPAC
The idea of cooperating with others, i.e. to exchange ideas with others and to stimulate each other, this thought is not exactly new!
In the United States of America (USA), company representatives came together and established privately funded socalled Think Tanks!
In the 20th century, this idea was implemented under president Franklin Roosevelt and a new form of advice emerged.
In politics, technological and economic interests are transferred into governance process in a lobby-like manner.
Such examples are presently implemented in many countries for selfish interests and they influence politics, usually with a certain lobby in the background.
The DGFK is an altruistic example of an informal Think Tank in which SUTOL, SEMOL, SPARC, SPATH, SPAET, SPOCA, but also FPAC and FBTC exist; however they operate in a subtle and discreet manner!
An interesting project is the so called Closed System, which outlines possibilities and tendencies, also of an uncomfortable kind, which is characterized by financial independence and the personal refrain from self-projection by the co-thinkers.
Labels: CULTURA, DGFK, FBTC, FPAC, IPC, Prof Dr Norbert Pintsch, SEMOL, SPAET, SPARC, SPATH, SPOCA, SUTOL
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 4:45 PM,
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By Omar M. Ali
Exactly 25 years ago, Dr Senta Siller began working in the arts and crafts in the village of TGD.
From 2008 onwards Dr Norbert continued to work with the volunteers, Three years ago, the work was formally handed over symbolically to the Pressident Amajd Ali.
Now, today, the opening of the exhibition in TGD also marked the practical handover.
If one realizes the considerable changes on both sides of the road from Okara to Gogera, it is clear that projects, such as those of the NGO AFA in the village of TGD, have to react accordingly.
It is important to preserve the proven traditions and continue them while developing something new at the same time.
The NGO is holistic and works for the benefit of the villagers.
Political weather conditions, but also the changing consumer behavior must be taken into account.
An important product are the experiences that have to be passed on.
Cooperation with other NGOs and universities must be maintained and expanded. Exhibition openings on important topics, seminars and workshops on site, all these have already taken place and need to be further developed.
Various opportunities need to be taken; the NGO has for example accommodation, which can be used by paying guests. The arts and crafts remain the beacon for the innovations; they can finance only so much, as in the past years, and this should help in new ideas because complex marketing in mass produced products leads to nothing new.
Labels: Aamir Rafique, Amjad Ali, DGFKeV, Dr Norbert Pintsch, Dr Senta SIller, FPAC, IPC Pvt Ltd, Thatta Kedona
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 8:21 AM,
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Prof Dr Norbert Pintsch, SRF / FPAC
As already often mentioned, it is not about either this ... or this, but about both; this-as well as this. This does not mean that from now on a new form of art is available, but rather: it is still in the phase of development, maybe the effects of this are unimaginable to contemporary critics, but this is always the case with imminent upheavals in approach.
We had already written "About the End of the Arts and Crafts" - in means here that unique items will gradually disappear and will play a role only with certain collectors in the high-price segment, - for the masses remain increasingly only copies, that is: mass produced products , This may not be understandable to the contemporaries, but it is so.
We have already written about "Polycrystalline and Bio-Molecular Structures in mobile and Immobile Towns (Architecture and Urban Development)" - this runs parallel to the upcoming art, whereby the term art is to be understood in a comprehensive sense, with painting, literature , Music - all in the traditional sense.
What awaits our children and grandchildren, if they are not already infiltrated in this direction?
Creative interactive consumption, with -Virtual theater, where one can play classics with friends, but also let yourself act with "stars", -Virtual design, with classic role models, but also by experiencing neural highways, -Virtual experience in games and sports in animated roles including traveling through the cosmos, as well as movements in, through and on the planet.
The reference to already existing infiltration refers to the computer-assisted film and music productions, computer simulations, - ultimately, all areas of life are at least affected, even if it is not perceived as such. It is valid here: we see what we want to see, - hear what we mean to hear, think what we like! What can be thought, if the thinking subject is also the object at the same time? The Artificial Intelligence (AI) is immune to this problem!
The question of why and for what reason we had already discussed under the topic
"Regarding the development of housing in a closed system".
Labels: Cultura e V, DGFK e V, Dr Norbert Pintsch, FBTC project, FPAC, Prof Dr Pintsch, SEMOL.iceland, SPAET Colombia, SPARC project, SPATH Cameroon, SPOCA Bangladesh, SUTOL Srilanka
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 2:43 PM,
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What to do?
Wednesday, September 19, 2018
Discussion event during a
SPARC meeting in Lahore with Friends of the SSDC*** in TGD**.
While a lot is being said about freedom in a world of consumption, digitization and globalization, environmental protection and nature conservation in legal terms, but their implementation in an industrial environment is more than questionable.
Also, unselfishness and self-help may theoretically be mentioned, but practically it is not implemented.
The religion of wealth is not only believed in, but it is also practiced. Meanwhile, charitable models practically disappear in nothingness!
Self-involved and affected people in self-help projects behave as in the usual institutions and organizations, - regular income, leisure and progress are the criteria in urban life. This is in strong contrast to the goals of selfless-serving, philanthropy and self-help!
The impossibility of realizing this world-wide is not recognized at all, on the contrary, more and more resources are destroyed, preserved as values. The wealth of a country is based on industrial indicators. This affects the simple areas, including the rural area. Industry and mass production gain in importance.
Opportunities are not recognized or perceived and the orientation towards urban life and its prosperity psychosis grows.
New values and possible goals are ignored!
Projects that could give achieve such goals are not injected with man-power!
Wherever a cautious, sustainable development is possible, we close our eyes.
Modest touristic developments (guest houses, display of local history), cultural exchange (artists in residence, student visits from urban into rural), cooperation with other, similar NGOs, are not given importance. This is how the simple people in the rural areas help to cut down on the already little piece of economic independence they are sitting on.
What is need of the hour?
An unselfish, energetic person who sets a good example - who loves his traditional culture but thinks ahead of the ruling elites!
But in election this will not convert into votes ......
* Anjuman-e-Falah-e-Aama
** Thatta Ghulamka Dhiroka
*** Senta Siller Design Centre
Labels: DGFK, FBTC, FPAC, Norbert Pintsch, Senta Siller Design Centre, SPARC-Project, Thatta Kedona
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 3:23 PM,
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by Omar M. Ali, Njini King Caro, Ricardo Coslez & Norbert Pintsch
Again and again, questions arise about what is special in SSI projects.
We have therefore made a list of characteristics for everyone interested,
although:
-the specialty should actually be logically self-evident:
-Local help with local resources
-Avoidance of migration, - to the urban areas or foreign countries
-Help should be holistic, so the problem solutions are not simply shifted to later time
-An NGO should never be a family clan, but open to all active members
-Help from the outside requires participation of concerned persons from the inside
-An NGO should always work with an open mind and be more flexible than government or private companies, etc.
-Local leadership should work as selfless as volunteers from outside
-An NGO is not a government organization or company; its products must stay below the BE point otherwise it will not be like a genuine NGO
-The head of the NGO must be on moral high ground; not enrichen himself , be communicative and possess broad experience!
Then why should not such head of the NGO work in a GO or Pvt Ltd company and earn better money?
Because ........ the benefit of the general public counts more!
Labels: DGFK, FBTC, FPAC, Njini King Caro, Norbert Pintsch, Omar M Ali, Ricardo Coslez, SPAETcolombis, SPARC-Project, SPATHcameroon
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 1:25 PM,
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Prof Dr Norbert Pintsch (SRF of the FPAC) giving a talk on the subject of practical experience as a prerequisite for theoretical employment.
Understanding comes before Doing! A challenge of the present times to make meaningful innovations possible!
Labels: FPAC, Prof Dr Norbert Pintsch
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 9:21 AM,
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Discussion over issue of the drinking water expert Dr Amir H. Malik. concerning possible tests in Thatta Ghulamka Dheroka.
Dr. Malik. had already carried out decentralized investigations in the village some time ago; He also led the investigation of the deep well project.
Labels: Dr. Amir H. Malik, FBTC, FPAC, Further Development, IPC, Prof Dr Norbert Pintsch, TGD
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 9:10 AM,
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At the end of the year 2017 there are
3 publications about living concepts:
a) HOUSING
From a series of articles for a technical magazine between 2008 and 2012, the German translation is now available with original graphics and illustrations, in which the topic of Housing is discussed from different points of view (economy, technology, science, philosophy, etc.).
b) POPULATION AND LIVING
A conversation between PDM and PDP resulted in a comparison of two research and teaching methods: the traditional one with quotations and references and the unconventional one, almost without references, which deliberately leaves the reader to look for the sourceand thus stimulates him to another form of activity.
c) SYSTEMS AND HOUSING
From mosaic-like aspects to the system view between holistic, open and closed system, with the emphasis on the closed system.
In sketchy contributions, the complete range is discussed: the physical, earth-related to the far-off independent system and the psychic phenomenon of being self-contained for example in special diseases (amyottrophic lateral sclerosis).
Labels: FPAC, IPC Pvt Ltd, Prof Dr Norbert Pintsch, SEMOLiceland, SPAETcolombia, SPARC-Project, SPATHcameroon, SPOCAbangladesh, SUTOLsrilanka
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 2:35 PM,
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by S A J Shirazi
The term HC model of Dr. S. * appears occasionally on the internet as the beginning of a scientific review.
It refers to a number of NGOs in rural areas in Pakistan, Cameroon, Columbia, for which the terms "experiment" or "project" actually do not describe the situation correctly.
The definitions of experiment (methodically applied to the empirical extraction of information) and the project (goal-oriented, one-time project) are derived from the western, urban point of view.
The HC model is holistic and heuristic, flexible and independent, thus completely against the mainstream thinking!
What started in the early 1990s had only the aim of showing that the usual form of aid in NGOs can also be handled in a different way, namely, with nothing, i.e. no organizational or financial help from outside! This means independence in the process!
Even if there are fundamental differences between NGOs (non-governmental organizations) and RO (governmental organizations) and Pvt. Ltds (business enterprises), the holistic approach of HC model is more than worth considering because growth, jobs, protection of the environment and resources is here decisive and an integral part.
Holistic is to be understood as an entirety approach, in which in the beginning the HC model was artisan based but even then contained parts of up to 16 sub-areas, which were processed like a classic NGO, which means that it developed gradually according to the possibilities and necessities without the usual procedure with calculation of budget and other financial plans.
In NGOs, manpower must be handled according to the given situation integrating whatever is possible in the context of an NGO without harming the traditional social sphere.
Labels: FBTC, FPAC, Norbert Pintsch, Omar M. Ali, SAJ Shirazi, SPARC-Project
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 4:08 PM,
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One of the most cherished Spring activity in the village Thatta Ghulamka Dhiroka is annual housing competition. This is an open competition and everyone in the village participates. Judges select the best mud house, best details and best exterior and cash prizes are given.
This annual competition keeps the Dolls Village spanking round the year in addition to keeping the cultural morals alive. This year Winner Bibi Bashiran was the winner once again. Professor Aamir Rafique gave the cash prize.
Compitition with aims of preservation of rural cultural, heritage and environment protection was supported by FPAC and SPARC in Lahore through students from Punjab University.
The students were so impressed, that they have collected additional money for the winners.
Labels: Culture, Environment Protection, FPAC, Heritage, Prof Dr Norbert Pintsch, SES, SPARC, Thatta Kedona
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 1:12 PM,
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NGOs work on multifaceted cooperation with other similar interest NGOs, organizations and people.
Dr Norbert Pintsch, senior expert from SES is now working on a new idea to foster cooperation between AFA,
Thatta Ghulamka Dhiroka (TGD called Dolls' Village) and
SPARC (Lahore).
The idea is to have a new building in TGD for students, guest and volunteers. The main structure will have ample space and will run with appropriate technology. The rooms will be built with mud by architecture students from Lahore institutions.
Other students, for example for the Pottery Project of TTTC and WAC (also guests and volunteers) will also be able to use the same rooms for staying overnight, too.
Labels: Appropriate Technology, FPAC, Mud Housing, Prof Dr Norbert Pintsch, SES, SPARC, Thatta Kedona, TTTC, WAC
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 12:33 PM,
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Introducing
FPAC - Foundation for Promotion of Acedemic Collaboration
Labels: FPAC
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 8:32 PM,
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