Brief:

The mission and aim of the Thinking Hand NGO Talk Series is to empower and educate people, and especially students. Talk series will be on various topics starting from (Questioning Why? How? What?) Architecture, Design, Landscape, Environment, Thesis, Theory, Practice, Sustainability and more. A platform to discuss openly, voice and think deeply, critically in a more constructive way. The panel members will be from various disciplines, Institutions and backgrounds to talk and discuss various topics in conversation with Thinking Hand NGO founder Santosh Kumar Kumar and the event supported by studio Ketham’s Atelier Architects.

Its totally online talk and conversation for one hour (30 minutes lecture and 30 minutes conversation with Q&A).

Open to all and free.

Hernan Diaz Alonso: SCI-Arc Director/CEO

He is Director/Chief Executive Officer of SCI-Arc in Los Angeles, and Founder and Principal of Los Angeles-based design practice HDA-X(formerly Xefirotarch). He is an Argentine architect, designer, and educator widely credited for spearheading the transition of SCI-Arc to digital technologies, playing a key role in shaping the school’s graduate curriculum in the past decade. As SCI-Arc director, he oversees the direction of an institution with more than 500 students and 80 faculty members, many of whom are well known in the fields of architecture and design. Along with his leadership at SCI-Arc, Díaz Alonso is principal of the Los Angeles-based firm HDA-X, known for producing grotesque and sometimes unsettling work that challenges responses to environment. Additionally, Díaz Alonso has been named winner of the 2005 MoMA PS1’s Young Architects Program (YAP), the AR+D Award for Emerging Architecture, and an honorable mention in the 2013 P/A Awards.