Technology professor Khurram Siddiqi got fed up with getting lost in Lahore. So, as he tells Nicola Twilley, he and some friends started a signage project to fix things. “In Lahore, you don’t get lost: you start off lost,” says Khurram Siddiqi. “It’s a condition, not a situation.” Siddiqi, and his friends Asim Fayaz and Omer Sheikh, wrote a proposal to install and maintain […]
Landlords built Lahore in a haphazard way over centuries. They didn’t concern themselves with city grids or sensible mapping. As a result, Lahore is renowned in Pakistan for being almost impossible to navigate. And that’s where Asim Fayaz and Khurram Siddiqi come in. Fayaz and Siddiqi won a $10,000 grant from TED, the U.S.-based foundation […]
TED, in addition to their genre-defining conferences, also awards the TED Prize each year to a game changing idea. It is usually awarded to individuals, like Bill Clinton and Bono, but in 2012, TED decided to award it to “an idea for continued flourishing: The City2.0, an exploration of the intersection of ingenuity and urbanity”. Omer […]