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Sara Khorshidifard

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Ecofoodway Architectures: Wisdom From The Past; Knowledge For The Future, Sara Khorshidifard May 2019

Ecofoodway Architectures: Wisdom From The Past; Knowledge For The Future, Sara Khorshidifard

Sara Khorshidifard

Intersections of food and the built environment make an imperative prospective for Environmental Design Research, the two areas between which design can support stronger allyships. This paper evaluates the past and present of this connection to initiate a synthesis on future possibilities of architecture-integrated ecological foodways. Food insecurity today is an acute global challenge, tightly intertwined with such other challenges as climate change, resource scarcity, and rapid urbanization. Project Drawdown 2017 reports the agriculture and food sectors posing largest negative bearings on climate change. Unsustainable practices in food production, distribution, waste, diet, and holistic grazing are responsible for around 8% of …

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Urbanism Pixels: Chronicle Of Studio Experiences, Sara Khorshidifard Dec 2018

Urbanism Pixels: Chronicle Of Studio Experiences, Sara Khorshidifard

Sara Khorshidifard

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Doglegalley Pixels, Sara Khorshidifard Dec 2018

Doglegalley Pixels, Sara Khorshidifard

Sara Khorshidifard

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Architecture Fast And Slow: Spatial And Material Procrastination, Sara Khorshidifard, Hannah Dewhirst Nov 2018

Architecture Fast And Slow: Spatial And Material Procrastination, Sara Khorshidifard, Hannah Dewhirst

Sara Khorshidifard

At times when irresistible, all-accelerating technologies prompt normative social influences growing expectations for speediness, architecture is not immune. This paper explores time-space speculations in the ambitious pursuits of idealistically paced architectures. Outcomes present a palette of possibilities for discerning slow architecture as a paradigm. Grounding in the nature of design enticing postponements, the study explores, construes, and curates possibilities to bring in the advantage of slower thinking, sensing, making, and educating. Universal urges for speed are undeniable. Future of cities may also well remain digital with technologies persisting further impacts on limits and possibilities of all disciplines including architecture. What …

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Poetics-Tectonics: Chronicle Of An Engaged Studio, Sara Khorshidifard May 2018

Poetics-Tectonics: Chronicle Of An Engaged Studio, Sara Khorshidifard

Sara Khorshidifard

Booklet Design by: Husam Alminawy

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Publicly Engaged Design Scholarship_Reflections On Practice.Pdf, Sara Khorshidifard Oct 2017

Publicly Engaged Design Scholarship_Reflections On Practice.Pdf, Sara Khorshidifard

Sara Khorshidifard

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Publicly Engaged Design Scholarship: Reflections On Practice, Sara Khorshidifard Oct 2017

Publicly Engaged Design Scholarship: Reflections On Practice, Sara Khorshidifard

Sara Khorshidifard

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Edible Toledo: Designing For Food Security, Sara Khorshidifard Oct 2017

Edible Toledo: Designing For Food Security, Sara Khorshidifard

Sara Khorshidifard

Imagine America where all ex-decrepit landscapes are food-generator containers. Architectural design can pose such new ways to see, interpret, and transform the built environments. Optimism can subsist amid and beyond the imperfections in urban-rural continuums. Food insecurity epidemics and leftover spaces is a twofold with latent capacities. The American Rust Belt cities are particularly trapped and plagued with many such abandoned, idled
and dormant sites. Trances of possibility are yet to be discovered to turn the former dilapidated zones into vigorous food-productive vessels. These images are bent on alleviating hunger and blight. With optimism, architecture, too, can espouse more meaningfulness, …

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Processes And Strategies For Assessing Social Responsibility Learning In Community-Engaged Pedagogy: An Architectural Design Studio Perspective, Sara Khorshidifard Apr 2017

Processes And Strategies For Assessing Social Responsibility Learning In Community-Engaged Pedagogy: An Architectural Design Studio Perspective, Sara Khorshidifard

Sara Khorshidifard

This article offers insights on course design elements and assessment strategies creating experiences and measures for social responsibility learning in architectural design education. The learning, a least considered and most overlooked concept in architecture, is where most design pedagogies fall short in educating. The following questions frame the study: What are some useful tactics to make community-based learning integrations more successful? What are some techniques to help measuring social responsibility outcomes? After mapping the literature, explaining the context, and analyzing the process, the article looks into applied assessment tools and strategies. Closer investigations reveal the approach taken in making the …

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Reimagining Lalehzar Street, Sara Khorshidifard Dec 2016

Reimagining Lalehzar Street, Sara Khorshidifard

Sara Khorshidifard

Abandoned buildings are premium assets for reclamation, innovation, and urban growth. Such opportunities
exist in Tehran’s oldest downtown corridor of Lalehzar. Lalehzar was Tehran’s first modern street in the early twentieth century. Toward the middle of the century, Lalehzar became the country’s hub for cinema and theatre goers. This important street today is a dilapidated shopping district that contains Iran’s main retail corridor for electrical appliances. Lalehzar’s decline is mostly a result of its close-down as an entertainment ward between the 1950s and 1970s. The street currently houses numerous rundown, boarded-up, and empty buildings. The jewels of Lalehzar’s buildings are …

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The Opportunistic House For Tehran: A Design Prototype, Sara Khorshidifard Dec 2015

The Opportunistic House For Tehran: A Design Prototype, Sara Khorshidifard

Sara Khorshidifard

This article is an advocacy research for Tehran, promoting an implication of architectural design as a tool for citizen empowerment and positive environmental change. In the article, I am offering a fresh look at Tehran’s housing problems by speculating an “opportunistic house” typology as a residential style that would serve much more than just shelter. I am making a case for a new house prototype that applies socially-equitable solutions in design. My study finds applications and significance beyond plain housing design and, mainly, onto the design of ad hoc urban public realm spaces. This is in accord with my overarching …

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Hidden In Plain Sight: Tehran's Empowering Protean Spaces, Sara Khorshidifard Nov 2015

Hidden In Plain Sight: Tehran's Empowering Protean Spaces, Sara Khorshidifard

Sara Khorshidifard

As a recent citizen I noticed Tehran's urge for new kinds of public spaces. So, I initiated a dissertation that outlined a call for "protean space." Cities need protean spaces as a means to empower people, places that offer social interaction and support--spaces that are safe, accessible, and intriguing. Protean spaces empower people to create places for personal and interpersonal relationships, make social connections, gain information, and build trust across varied networks. My dissertation examined how planning and design practices can enhance the possibility of protean spaces and therefore increase their number. While my research concerns Tehran, all cities benefit …

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A Paradigm In Architectural Education - Kolb's Model And Learning Styles In Studio Pedagogy.Pdf, Sara Khorshidifard Dec 2010

A Paradigm In Architectural Education - Kolb's Model And Learning Styles In Studio Pedagogy.Pdf, Sara Khorshidifard

Sara Khorshidifard

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Innovative Strategies, Fresh Roles And Renewed.Pdf, Sara Khorshidifard, Susan Weistrop Jun 2010

Innovative Strategies, Fresh Roles And Renewed.Pdf, Sara Khorshidifard, Susan Weistrop

Sara Khorshidifard

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Genuine, Protean, Ad Hoc Public Spaces, Sara Khorshidifard Dec 2009

Genuine, Protean, Ad Hoc Public Spaces, Sara Khorshidifard

Sara Khorshidifard

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Unique Phenomena In Small Places With Big Hearts.Pdf, Sara Khorshidifard Apr 2009

Unique Phenomena In Small Places With Big Hearts.Pdf, Sara Khorshidifard

Sara Khorshidifard

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A Film Studies Approach In Architectural Research: Urban Space In Three Iranian Films, Sara Khorshidifard Dec 2008

A Film Studies Approach In Architectural Research: Urban Space In Three Iranian Films, Sara Khorshidifard

Sara Khorshidifard

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