#interview with Mani Farhadi, Assoc AIA of Stanford University School of Medicine: Senior Planner
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| Mani Farhadi, Assoc AIA Senior Planner at Stanford University, in the School of Medicine |
This episode of "I've never met a woman architect before..." podcast and blog with Michele Grace Hottel, Architect with guest Mani Farhadi is sponsored by:
BIBI Banou in the Building Industry
PODCAST W/ MANI FARHADI, CLICK HERE
Mani Ardalan Farhadi
Associate AIA, LEED AP
Senior Facilities Planner
https://linktr.ee/manifarhadi
A global thinker and creative thought leader, Mani Ardalan Farhadi’s experience spans three decades of design and planning for places of learning. Mani is a Senior Planner at Stanford University, in the School of Medicine. Her passion is focused on creating inclusive environments, in combination with her extensive planning skills. Her expertise is in designing from the inside-out through cultural and human-centered principles. Using collaborative skills, she is instrumental in developing interdisciplinary initiatives and emerging strategies.
Described as ‘the client in the room”, Mani’s keen ability to listen builds consensus within user group settings. Leveraging her perspective, Mani has led workshops, facilitated Town Halls, and presented at various conferences (Higher Education Forum, SCUP, AIA, CoDesign Collaborative, WIA, EQXD, ACSA,SAH, SPUR, SF Design Week, CCFC, CCLC, A4LE). Furthermore, she has recorded presentations and podcasts, plus authored several publications and blogs ranging from “Design Your Life” to “An Education to Remember.”
Her leadership extends into a wide range of volunteering and mentorship, such as former Board of Trustee and Chair of Bond Oversight Committee for her local School District. Her current roles include co-founder of BIBI (Banous in Building Industry); SCUP Juror; Board Member of the Institute for Traditional Psychoethics and Guidance; DEI Officer/Board Member for Wellesley College Alumna; Board of Advisors for NICA (Niosha International Conservatory of Arts); and Cultural Ambassador for Children’s Discovery Museum.
A graduate of Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA with a B.A. in Architecture, she also has a Bachelor of Architecture from Boston Architectural College. A lifelong learner, her formal education is supplemented with certificates from IDEO Change Leadership; Stanford University LEAP (Leadership, Education, Access, Power); Stanford University’s Supervisor Academy; SCUP Planning Institute (Step III); Leadership Los Gatos; LEED AP; MIG (Management in Governance) training; and Lean Process Improvement.
Mani's Three Classic Buildings:
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| Persepolis (Persian Acropolis), Iran 518 BC |
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| Pyramids at Giza, Egypt 256 BC |
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| Alhambra, Spain 13th-14th century |
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| Cyrus Cylinder, 538 BC First Declaration of Human Rights |
Mani and I had a great conversation yesterday.
And her parents met in Pittsburgh!!! Which is where I met my first Iranian friend in Kindergarten in 1969, Darioush and his little sister Miriam. Their parents were either students at a local university or they were professors, I forget and I will have to check with my mom about that.
What i distinctly remember is that I was asked to eat dinner with them and probably most people would ask:
What did you eat?
I don't remember what I ate. What I do remember is sitting at the table and "Breaking Bread" with his family, just as I did with mine. And that is what brings us together in most cultures. The reason why we sit down at a meal with family, with friends, and with people that we also might not agree with. This "ceremony" brings us together to
share به اشتراک بگذارید
(This Persian word might not be correct as it is from google translate!!!!)
Which if you look up the meaning of this word it can be meanings that are old and new, to share your food: to portion out equal amounts or what the person may need, to share a file, to have a stock share, etc, etc, but as we can see it is not always equal, though it should be as we are all human and this has been around a long time..
And Mani and I also had a great conversation about Politics and Religion.. Isn't that what we aren't supposed to talk about? But no, we did and I think it brought us closer together and the importance of higher education and it's facilities (She is a Senio Planner with Stanford University School of Medicine) and the way that these places bring together people from diverse backgrounds to engage in discourse (ie: DICUSSIONS) about a myriad of different topics and seeing that our differences may be many, but really not, we are all HUMAN BEINGS, And with DNA and Science, we can see that our main DNA is almost exactly the same and the difference is minute in that science. Religion is all about LOVE and PEACE. The bible and other books of religion have been translated many times in different languages and has been lost in interpretation or has been skewed to reflect political rhetoric and we need to believe in the true meaning of a higher power and that this higher power means LOVE and PEACE. and I am glad to have had this interview with this Banou (Beautiful Woman: in every sense of the word) yesterday.
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