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...
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posted by S A J Shirazi @ 5:13 PM,
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value chain and income-generating measure
by
Prof Dr Nobert Pintsch / IPC
Art - Craft - Manufacture - Mass Production;
Figures-dolls-puppets and fairytale world of dwarfs, witches, fairies;
between unicum and multicum;
between analogue preservation and digital renewal;
between specialness and sameness.
Labels: IPC, Prof Dr Norbert Pintsch
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 9:28 AM,
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Background – Examples – Affects / Conclusion
Professor Doctor Norbert Pintsch
Architect, Civil and Industrial Engineer
IPC, FBTC, FPAC, RUC
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!
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posted by S A J Shirazi @ 9:08 AM,
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Spending-oriented leisure activities
Income-generating measures
A long overdue lesson
to the DGFK societies
by
Prof Dr Norbert Pintsch / IPC-DGFK
The circle of terminologies is closing!
It is not easy to remain focused in the sea of meaningless terminologies and constantly repeating everyday occurrences.
The progressive fragmentation of society and the consequent development of new terminologies suggests a new development , which however on closer look proves to be merely a changed look.
The past in the form of the old generation seems to be losing its justification.
The youth representing what is still to come is pressing for recognition.
Between them the army of middle-aged persons.
One has to deal with everyday issues, living like a beetle between tree and bark and cannot really do how or what one would like to do.
Awakening, progress and future, these are the battle cries of the army leaders at the zenith of the overview, but they cannot perceive the emerging fog; the mixture of feet on the ground and reaching for the sky prevents this!
While the forefathers understood only the principle of work, in the course of industrialization this evolved into a mixture of working hours and free time, from which non-industrialized countries remained less affected.
Until then, life was still shaped by local character and was actually analogue, but with time it became increasingly international and also affected the less industrialized countries.
Actually escape from the limitation in own country by venturing into foreign lands.
Meanwhile, it is no longer possible to escape from the digital, global village. Even traditional work methods exist lesser and lesser and is iincreasingly infected with occupations of trivialities.
The sense of achievement through well defined tasks exist no longer and they are replaced by occupations that no longer lead to sense of achievement in the traditional sense. Free time exists no longer, the entire time becoming a conglomerate of income-generating measures and expenditure-oriented employments.
Classic profiling is becoming less well known, training and further education is part of consumerism. Despite the calls for growth restrictions, the environment is ruined - not without constant, but quite entertaining Cassandra music.
Nature, for some, a mystical power, for others - they prevail as terminology and pseudo-scientific curiosity occupy the content of their heads ... SEQUITUR ET It goes on and on - Et ca continue, encore et encore - Lo sigue y sigue.
Labels: DGFKeV, IPC Pvt Ltd, Prof Dr Norbert Pintsch, SODSH, SPARC, SPOCA, SUTOL
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 9:06 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!
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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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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!
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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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The following short films /videos are available and can be downloaded:
Information about these is available through Google
-Pakistan concerning Thatta Kedona / AFA (NGO)
-Cameroon concerning CAT / RUC
-Colombia concerning Tanto Mejor (ONG)
Colombia 2015
-Germany concerning Cultura e.V. / DGFK e.V.
-Iceland concerning International Dolls Museum
Announcement:
The following publications for 2018 are planned:
Projects
with introduction and project description or project studies
Sounds
with introduction and transcriptions, 6 sections
Graphs
with introduction, illustrations black / white and color in 6 sections
Announcement:
From Global Village
each about 300 pages with different topics,
limited and uncensored editions:
Volume 33: News from the Ground!
Volume 34: Enough is Enough!
Volume 35: What's going on?
Volume 36: Flowers Blue Letters
Volume 37: All over again
Volume 38: At the end of the tunnel
Related: See more videos here
Labels: Announcements, Prof Dr Norbert Pintsch, Projects
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 2:08 PM,
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Prof Dr Norbert, Senior Research Fellow with the President of the FPAC,
Mr. S A J Shirazi concerning International Journalists Conference in Lahore.
Labels: Prof Dr Norbert Pintsch, S A J Shirazi
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 8:34 AM,
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It's autumn, Prof Dr Norbert has been coming to Pakistan in the fall for years, this time however very briefly.
The village project of the AFA in TGD is developing - now with a new management. It is hoped to link up with the positive developments of the past, - also to go for new ways and to find opportunities in future.
After many years of cooperation, Mr Ilyas was able to become independent with his extensive experience - in the past he was committed to selling works by other artisans both at home and abroad.
Dr Norbert will continue to visit his friends and keep in touch - presumably there will be lectures again. In order not only to denounce air pollution, wastage of resources, etc. but to lead by example, X will increasingly use video over the Internet, - examples are available on the internet for students.
An initiative to support the women's project of the AFA, now named as SSDC, worked for the SSS years ago and would like to become active again for the material preservation of the village project.
Labels: Prof Dr Norbert Pintsch, S A J Shirazi
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 1:38 PM,
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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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Neem Tree / Moringa Tree / Jetrupa Cures -Ph tester-Water Pump
Thanks to the digital communication and information age, people even in remote rural areas obtain news about the lives of people in the so-called industrialized countries, with all its possibilities and apparent abundance. One is inclined to share and participate in it, preferably immediately than later.
The problems behind the sham abundance are not perceived, not even by the producers, who are in fact proud of their performance: Water for all, Housing for all, etc., etc.. One cannot expect of the migrants to understand the economic ups and downs of the economic factors, - that's even true of the highly developed countries. It is like speaking of water and drinking wine. The correlations between production and commerce, consumption and uniformity are at best entertaining, - serving only as theory and as entertainment program for general distraction and targeted manipulation of the believing public and consumers.
Background to this discussion is rural project, supposed to offer remedy through the targeted measure of providing flowing water to a basin for buffaloes and to bring the fresh water supply back on track. The process is to be accompanied by regular pH tests. The project is laudable, but lack of interest of the affected people is to be expected, who are possibly not interested in a controlled environmental pollution, or even its stoppage, and rather more interested in pursuing their internal family interests. There can also be no discussion of educational deficit or other cultures. This development is similar in the whole world: one is most interested in becoming a consumer, getting regular income, fixed breaks, - in short, the existing mistake further propagated by the media, which is erroneously perceived as progress.
Labels: Prof Dr Norbert Pintsch, Prof Dr Pintsch/DGFK, Prof Dr Pintsch/SES, SPARCPakistan, ThattaKedona
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 12:09 PM,
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Dr Senta Siller was in Pakistan where she had a very busy time in research and development, meeting people from research specialties to local NGOs and artisans, and also giving guidelines to Thatta Kedona artisans for Lok Virsa Mela (April 2016). Here are some of the images of her activities while in Pakistan:
Senior Researcher Dr Senta Siller at National Data Base of Lok Virsa, Islamabad that includes a library for the benefit of scholars on subjects of Cultural Heritage.
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posted by S A J Shirazi @ 11:18 AM,
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Prof Dr Norbert Pintsch (SES) is a German Senior Volunteer who has been working in Pakistan (and in many oher countries) for over quarter Century. Now Pakistan is like his second home (that is why I call him
Chaudhry Norbert now). He started working in a remote Punjab village Thatta Ghulamka Dheroka - some 80 Kilometers from Lahore - and over time have made it a model village. His special interests are appropriate technology, preservation of rural culture, housing, handicrafts, communication and information, income generation for rural communities (through self help projects) and
promotion of academic coordination.
This time in Pakistan, Prof Dr Norbert Pintsch was invited to Government College University, Lahore where he delivered a lecture on “Open and Closed System of Development Demonstrated Through an Example of a Village Project in Pakistan.”
Prof Dr Norbert Pintsch is a retired Professor, Architect, Engineer, MBA by Profession and presently a social worker who represents German Society for Promotion of Culture.
The DGFK (German Society for Promotion of Culture) was officially registered in 1973 at the district court Berlin-Charlottenburg.
The main activities of the society in the beginning revolved around promotion of culture in its widest sense. About 133 projects were initiated or supported which included projects of art exhibitions, lectures as well as concerts, film projects and festivals.
A number of publications were published and events initiated and organized in Berlin, Germany and other European and Non-European countries.
Since 1990 however, most of the activities of the society are concentrated in the Non-European regions.
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posted by S A J Shirazi @ 2:28 PM,
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How closely these areas are interconnected with each other can be well explained through Anglo-Saxon terms, for example Marketing and Distribution, which are gladly used in many other languages too.
The durability of such expressions is very limited and will be soon history, as we can see on hand for words like hippies. Also yuppies is not much better in this regard. Who knows today terms like DINKS (Double Income No Kids), LOHAS (Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability), or PARKOS (Internet Users Participative Consumers) and LOVOS (Lifestyle of Voluntary Simplicity)! If now, in the context of growing automation of industry, many follow this trend blindly like lemmings in the clouds, it may unsettle many people from older generations but not NERDS (Computer fans), who recognize in it prospect for greater income by dedicating themselves to MINT-Subjects (Maths, Informatics, Natural Sciences, Technology) while at the same time further educating themselves in MOOCS (Massive Open Online Courses).
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posted by S A J Shirazi @ 9:45 AM,
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