<html><div style='background-color:'><P>Dear Gita,</P> <P>I was sent this url by a friend who is working in the Hydrabad Development Authority on issues that include Private- Public Partnership and NGO involvement in development. I am sckeptical of these sort of ventures because they are fashionable at the moment and cause more harm than good.</P> <P>Not to make a case against the middle class or for that matter the West in general but the people who will take part in this conversation will be predominent sections of the two classes I just mentioned. The others will include some students who will belive that they are contributing to a better tomorrow and in this misplaced sense of generosity and philanthropy become part of a zeitgeist. My major bone of contention is that these arenas for pontification contribute nothing more than just gaudy reports and decontextualized universal Western centric solutions that are aimed at feeding a capitalist economy (in this case Canada). </P> <P>They reinforce certain constructs of poverty by building on the gazes of the participating members and their charatable solutions. These solutions are normally aimed at ossifying the subjects of study (slum dwellers, poor people),draining them of all vitality so that the reciprocal contribution built on these faulty gazes perpetuate with a rather distorted view, what slums are for example and who their subjects are that inhabit them in the global south.<BR><BR><BR></P> <DIV> <P><FONT color=#3333ff><STRONG>Leon Morenas</STRONG></FONT></P> <P><FONT color=#3333ff><STRONG>Urban Designer/ Architect</STRONG></FONT></P></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #a0c6e5 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11px; FONT-FAMILY: tahoma,sans-serif"> <HR color=#a0c6e5 SIZE=1> From: <I>Gita Dewan Verma <mpisgplanner@xxxxxxxxx></I><BR>Reply-To: <I>Master plan issues in media <mpisgmedia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx></I><BR>To: <I>Master plan issues in media <mpisgmedia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx></I><BR>Subject: <I>Re: [mpisgmedia] Habitat Jam</I><BR>Date: <I>Tue, 29 Nov 2005 12:30:11 -0800 (PST)</I><BR>>hi Leon,<BR>><BR>>it is sort of on radar because I got isd calls to be<BR>>something called subject-matter expert. that I cant be<BR>>since i dont even know what is subject-matter.<BR>>(topics mentioned made me wonder and ask how they are<BR>>identifying experts; the rest is hardly fit for<BR>>mailing lists).<BR>>of course, I am biased: I hate the word habitat, am<BR>>too old to jam and the thing seems like WSF type party<BR>>(and what I have to say about that is not fit even for<BR>>ladylike bar-brawls).<BR>><BR>>what do you think of this?<BR>><BR>><BR>><BR>>--- leon morenas <leon_angelo@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:<BR>><BR>><BR>>---------------------------------<BR>><BR>>Dear Gita,<BR>><BR>>Just to put this under your radar, unless you already<BR>>are in the know of this prospective event.<BR>><BR>><BR>><BR>>http://www.habitatjam.com/index.php?language=en<BR>><BR>><BR>><BR>><BR>>Leon Morenas<BR>><BR>>Urban Designer/ Architect<BR>><BR>><BR>><BR>><BR>><BR>><BR>>__________________________________<BR>>Yahoo! Music Unlimited<BR>>Access over 1 million songs. Try it free.<BR>>http://music.yahoo.com/unlimited/<BR>>_______________________________________________<BR>>mpisgmedia mailing list<BR>>mpisgmedia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<BR>>http://mail.architexturez.net/mailman/listinfo/mpisgmedia<BR></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></div></html>
Re: [mpisgmedia] Habitat Jam
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- Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 06:05:56 +0000
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