Assistant Professor Aziza Chaouni is participating in an exhibition at the Guggenheim in New York called "Participatory City: 100 Urban Trends from the BMW Guggenheim Lab."

The BMW Guggenheim Lab is a global project that offered free programs and projects about important urban challenges in cities around the world. Led by international, interdisciplinary Lab Teams — groups of emerging talents in the areas of urbanism, architecture, art, design, science, technology, education, and sustainability — the Lab raised awareness of key urban topics, and continues to inspire an ongoing conversation online and through the projects it developed in cities.

The show, which runs from October 11 to January 5, explores the major themes and ideas that emerged from the Lab during its travels to New York, Berlin, and Mumbai from 2011 to 2013.

A video of one of Chaouni's built projects (Multiflex Space for the NGo Esprit de Fez, Fez, Morocco) will be included and shown on the BMW Guggenheim Lab's Youtube Channel.

The Assistant Professor has been busy. She was also recently made a member of the Holcim Prize Jury for the Africa Middle East region.

In addition to teaching at the Daniels Faculty, Chaouni is Principal of Aziza Chaouni Projects with offices in Toronto, Canada and Fez, Morocco. She  leads Designing Ecological Tourism, a collaborative research platform that investigates the challenges faced by ecotourism in the developing world, and was principal of Bureau EAST (Bureau of Ecological Architecture and Systems of Tomorrow) with Takako Tajima.

Bureau EAST’s river remediation and urban development scheme in Fez, Morocco won the Global Holcim Award Gold 2009. The project also won the Holcim Awards Gold 2008 for Africa Middle East and the Environmental Design Research Association’s “Great Places Awards” recognition for planning.