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Futures Forum #1: Where is my happiness with guest host Negar Ebrahimi
Join us for the first Futures Forum session of 2022 as architect Negar Ebrahimi discusses the concept of happiness.
Futures Forum #1: Where is my happiness with guest host Negar Ebrahimi
The discussion will be on participants’ experiences, ideas and expectations of what could be a happy place, or where they have been happy. Exploring the social and cultural ideals of happiness, how it is threatened or thrived due to the imposing geographical constitutions and how it is distorted or reflected in political campaigns. Looking closer at where we can be happy will give us an understanding of our own values and what we seek in life, as well as an awareness to make more conscious decisions. Is it that the circumstances predetermining the space of our activity also could manipulate our emotions? Let us discuss aspects of place-bound happiness in our everyday lives, all examples, narratives and observations are welcome!
Thursday 3rd March 6pm - 8pm.
The session is free to attend and will take place online via Zoom. Book your free ticket here
*Futures Forum is open to people of the global majority only.
About the Host
Negar Ebrahimi is an architect with a Master of Science in Spatial Design; Architecture and Cities from The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. Currently, she is completing her PhD in Architecture while teaching at the University of Edinburgh. Negar is passionate about promoting people’s wellbeing through architecture and urban design and her ongoing research interests focus on the correlation between happiness and spatial design. Her work has been exhibited in the Royal Scottish academy of Art and Architecture 195th annual exhibition (2021), London Festival of Architecture (LFA) 2017 (in collaboration) and at the UCL Doctoral School exhibition in London as The Best Hundred Research Images of 2018. She was awarded multiple grants for her research; including Social Responsibility and Sustainability Award (UoE SRS) 2020, IAD Action Fund (Institute of Academic Development) 2019, Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funding award for the FoSS 2019, and Festival of Creative Learning (FCL 2019) Award. In 2020, as a Young Women Lead (YWCA @youngwomenscot) committee member she worked on an equal rights and inclusion report with The Scottish Parliament (@ScotParl); and also received the Clinton Global Initiative recognition of Commitment to Action (CGI U). When she isn’t working, you’ll find Negar reading Persian poetry or doing origami. www.linkedin.com/in/negar-ebrahimi
About Futures Forum
Futures Forum looks to create a safe, supportive environment for global majority artists at all stages of their careers. In creating this space we recognise that there is currently a serious imbalance in the representation of global majority artists in Southampton’s cultural offer as well as further afield. Futures Forum was created to address this imbalance and provide a space for artists of all disciplines to share ideas, meet other creative people and hear from sector leaders. This space exists to serve the needs, ambitions and aspirations of its members.
*A note on terminology
- Global Majority is a collective term that first and foremost speaks to and encourages those so-called to think of themselves as belonging to the global majority. It refers to people who are Black, Asian, Brown, dual-heritage, indigenous to the global south, and or have been racialised as 'ethnic minorities'
- As an organisation we have joined the movement to reject the acronym BAME as this state- manufactured term flattens and depoliticises global solidarity between people with a lived experiences of racism.
- We acknowledge the term ‘people of global majority’ as it is factually true with over 80% of the world’s population making up the global majority of non-white peoples.
- We acknowledge language is fluid and evolving and aim to ensure our use of language remains inclusive and inoffensive.
The discussion will be on participants’ experiences, ideas and expectations of what could be a happy place, or where they have been happy. Exploring the social and cultural ideals of happiness, how it is threatened or thrived due to the imposing geographical constitutions and how it is distorted or reflected in political campaigns. Looking closer at where we can be happy will give us an understanding of our own values and what we seek in life, as well as an awareness to make more conscious decisions. Is it that the circumstances predetermining the space of our activity also could manipulate our emotions? Let us discuss aspects of place-bound happiness in our everyday lives, all examples, narratives and observations are welcome!
Thursday 3rd March 6pm - 8pm.
The session is free to attend and will take place online via Zoom. Book your free ticket here
*Futures Forum is open to people of the global majority only.
About the Host
Negar Ebrahimi is an architect with a Master of Science in Spatial Design; Architecture and Cities from The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. Currently, she is completing her PhD in Architecture while teaching at the University of Edinburgh. Negar is passionate about promoting people’s wellbeing through architecture and urban design and her ongoing research interests focus on the correlation between happiness and spatial design. Her work has been exhibited in the Royal Scottish academy of Art and Architecture 195th annual exhibition (2021), London Festival of Architecture (LFA) 2017 (in collaboration) and at the UCL Doctoral School exhibition in London as The Best Hundred Research Images of 2018. She was awarded multiple grants for her research; including Social Responsibility and Sustainability Award (UoE SRS) 2020, IAD Action Fund (Institute of Academic Development) 2019, Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funding award for the FoSS 2019, and Festival of Creative Learning (FCL 2019) Award. In 2020, as a Young Women Lead (YWCA @youngwomenscot) committee member she worked on an equal rights and inclusion report with The Scottish Parliament (@ScotParl); and also received the Clinton Global Initiative recognition of Commitment to Action (CGI U). When she isn’t working, you’ll find Negar reading Persian poetry or doing origami. www.linkedin.com/in/negar-ebrahimi
About Futures Forum
Futures Forum looks to create a safe, supportive environment for global majority artists at all stages of their careers. In creating this space we recognise that there is currently a serious imbalance in the representation of global majority artists in Southampton’s cultural offer as well as further afield. Futures Forum was created to address this imbalance and provide a space for artists of all disciplines to share ideas, meet other creative people and hear from sector leaders. This space exists to serve the needs, ambitions and aspirations of its members.
*A note on terminology
- Global Majority is a collective term that first and foremost speaks to and encourages those so-called to think of themselves as belonging to the global majority. It refers to people who are Black, Asian, Brown, dual-heritage, indigenous to the global south, and or have been racialised as 'ethnic minorities'
- As an organisation we have joined the movement to reject the acronym BAME as this state- manufactured term flattens and depoliticises global solidarity between people with a lived experiences of racism.
- We acknowledge the term ‘people of global majority’ as it is factually true with over 80% of the world’s population making up the global majority of non-white peoples.
- We acknowledge language is fluid and evolving and aim to ensure our use of language remains inclusive and inoffensive.
