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I'm passionate about

Architecture, web design, technology, graphics design, painting, photography... umm a lot of things!

An idea worth spreading

Bad designs are erecting not for the lack of intelligence and creativity of designers, its rather for the lack of effective communication. Lack of information, resources and inspiration.
There should be an open-source platform which would connect the architects of developing nations to the global mainstream movements and resources. If somehow we could connect the architects and designers of the world in a single platform we would be living in a greener and better built environment everywhere.

ArchSociety.com is trying to do it to some extents under least supply of resources and supports, initiated from a developing nation like Bangladesh.

Talk to me about

TEDxDhaka, Architecture, technology, open-source culture, contemporary art and architecture philosophy or anything that makes us a good friend :-)

People don't know that I'm good at

'sms poetry' !!! drawing nearly unrecognizable portraits :-p, 'face reading' ;-) graphics design, photography

My TED Story

Life is never the same after attending the TED 2009 in Long Beach as a Fellow!
TED Talks were virtually changing me from long before and now TED is a part of my everyday life, thoughts and activities.
Undoubtedly TED 2009 is the most memorable, most amazing experience in my life. It gave me a the opportunity to meet so many great people together, it shuffled and blew storm through my brain during the 6 days.
And I got some great friends! The friends are the biggest earning from this life changing event.

Now watching TED Talk is of course in my daily routine. And I am a TEDx Licensee and a TED Translator as well.

Comments

• TEDCred score: +5262.60 TEDCred reflects your contribution to the TED community.

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  A comment on Talk: Dan Pallotta: The way we think about charity is dead wrong

  Mar 11 2013: I'm going to put this talk on the homepage of all my non-profit ventures from now on!

• A comment on Conversation: What are some good TEDTalks about design that helps people?

  Nov 7 2012: Check out Cameron Sinclair's 2006 TEDPrize wish talk about Architecture for Humanity and opensource architecture: http://www.ted.com/talks/cameron_sinclair_on_open_source_architecture.html

• A reply on Talk: Kent Larson: Brilliant designs to fit more people in every city

  Oct 18 2012: I think it's not very difficult to put up some slides with statistics or public poll or infographic to make the point of increasing density valid at the first place. It shouldn't take more than 2 minutes. Other speakers do so before throwing a 'solution' on the table.
  
  Architects are not merely CAD monkeys. They are supposed to be visionaries. They are responsible for shaping our everyday lives, for present and the future, it's a massive responsibility. It is the duty of the architects to think of hundreds of different perspectives simultaneously, about the past-present and future, society, economy and culture before design.
  So no, I would not be happy to see them only "designing solutions to problems that are already occurring". They are at far greater stake than short sighted problem fixing approach.
  
  I am an architect myself btw. I also don't know the big answers to the problems of the cities. It's a matter of massive research and ground work.
  But I'd at least try to explain the basic validity of my points before a TEDTalk. If someone has missed a big point, then it is absolutely ok to criticize.
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  A comment on Talk: Kent Larson: Brilliant designs to fit more people in every city

  Sep 11 2012: Short-sighted. There are hundreds of other troubles of increasing density that are not addressed in this talk. And there's a very basic argument, should we at all try to stuff more people in small footprints in cities? Why?
  Why don't we discard the idea of increasing density and look forward to decentralization?
  If you want to see the other unimaginable problems of super-density, see it first hand, come visit Dhaka.
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  A reply on Conversation: How can we use TED.com in a better way?

  Jun 19 2012: TED.com is simply a representation of all other activities of TED in one place. TED.com helps to connect the dots. I found it a bit confusing when you wrote "How can we use TED in a better way?" as TED is not a single thing.
  
  The title could be something like "How can we make the best use of TED.com", that would be easier to understand.

• A comment on Conversation: Have Documentaries or Narrative Films had a bigger impact on you?

  Jun 18 2012: Undoubtedly narrative feature films have bigger impact. We do not remember an equation from our high school physics book, neither do we remember a news report, but we can remember a life changing story from a fiction based on a true story.

• A comment on Conversation: How can we use TED.com in a better way?

  Jun 18 2012: You could specify what do you mean by TED here. As TED may refer to couple of different things. Are you talking about the TED Conference? TED.com? TED Talks? The TEDx Program? TED Prize? TEDED Program? Other TED Initiatives?...
  Making the best use of each of them may become separate conversations!

• A reply on Conversation: What are 5 things you have learned that has completely changed your life?

  Jun 17 2012: Best answer :)
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  A comment on Conversation: What are 5 things you have learned that has completely changed your life?

  Jun 14 2012: These are the 5 things I learned that changed my life entirely:
  
  1. How internet really works.
  
  2. How to Google a thing. Being curious and not settling with anything unknown until I explore and learn it.
  
  3. How to draw and doodle
  
  4. How to give a damn and think big
  
  5. CouchSurfing, seeing new places and meeting new people.

• A comment on Conversation: How should birthday be calculated

  Jun 14 2012: If you only follow the moon and nakshatra your birthday may fall into different seasons, it may be in summer or winter. That's the reason I don't think it's very logical follow that system. I want my birthday to be in the spring every year, I don't want it in the middle of summer.
  Also I knew there are 36 nakshatras not 27, three nakshatras on each Zodiac, 3x12=36. I did not hear about 27 naksgatras before!