On Saturday, November 17, Associate Professor Aziza Chaouni will present a TEDxYouth@Toronto Talk at the Ontario Science Centre.

Click here to view the promotional video for her talk.

About TEDxYouth@Toronto 2012

This year’s theme focuses on the evolution of our society, as well as the revolutionary ideas, visionaries and movements that have made the world a better place. TEDxYouth@Toronto 2012 will be a celebration of positive change and will inspire you to challenge the status quo by showcasing a line-up of leading revolutionaries within their fields.

About Aziza Chaouni

Aziza Chaouni is founding principal of Bureau E.A.S.T. and Aziza Chaouni Projects, and Assistant Professor at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design. She holds a Master of Architecture with distinction from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and a Bachelor of Science with Honors in Civil Engineering from Columbia University.

Chaouni’s personal research is focused both on developing world design issues and on methodologies to integrate architecture and landscape, and more particularly through investigating the potential of green technologies in arid climates. At the University of Toronto, Chaouni teaches graduate option studios set in the Moroccan Sahara, investigating sustainable modes of construction and xeriscaping technique and their integration with tourism. She also leads an initiative with Professor Liat Margolis called the Out of Water project, identifying and assessing the performance of different methods to harness, treat, collect and describe water.