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Abstract
Ahmadreza Ahmadi (1940-2023) was a renowned Iranian poet and screenwriter, who was nominated for the prestigious Hans Christian Andersen Award, in 2010, and Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, in 2011, for his remarkable contributions to children’s literature. Ahmadi is known as the poet of hope and peace. His concerns are global human concepts. A surrealist mood characterizes his works with a unique blend of prose, poetry, specific fantasies, and imagery. With his rich imagination, he transforms the sounds of a city into vibrant colors, flowers, birds, and horses into humans, and vice versa, creating new worlds for children to explore. His stories have been illustrated by many artists with different styles, by different publishers. While family members, houses, neighborhoods, and Iranian architectural spaces are recurring themes in his works, each story is distinct and offers a fresh perspective. This paper aims to analyze Ahmadreza Ahmadi’s stories from the perspective of creating an architecture of peace. The text and illustrations of his works are reviewed to understand how the peaceful ambiance of his works can help in creating livable cities for today’s and future generations of children.
Susan Habib studied Architecture at the Middle East Technical University and then MS and PhD at the Gazi University in Ankara, Turkey. She is an assistant professor at the Islamic Azad University. Color, creativity, design and sustainable design, and children’s literature are among her interests. She is one of the members of Children’s Book Council and author of The Iranian Encyclopedia for Young People.
Nafiseh Asadi Pak, born on March 08, 1982, in Tehran, studied architecture, and handicrafts and then got her master’s degree in Bionic Architecture. She has taught architecture at the School of Art in Karaj since 2001. She is a Ph.D. candidate at Islamic Azad University and teaches there as an assistant. She is a member of the Children’s Book Council.
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Thursday 27th June, 2024