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Rahanat Ara Jafar
Rahanat Ara Jafar
Assistant Professor
E-mail Address

rahanatara@cuet.ac.bd , shuchanachowdhury@gmail.com

About Myself

Rahanat Ara Jafar is currently working as a lecturer at the Department of Architecture of the Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology since October 2019. Her research is cited in the field of Architectural Engineering, with a special focus on humanitarian activity and projects. Rahanat has achieved exceptional progress in her B.Arch thesis research on "Hand-loom Community of Bangladesh" from the Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology in 2018 which earned her academic praise and appreciation. She has worked as an Assistant Architect in a reputed Architectural Private Firm after her graduation. Her keen interest in architecture as well as social activism took her to be a part of various social assignments and projects which include volunteering for a free school teaching program for slum children, working with "Ship Breaking Workers Community" as an academic research project. Her roles as a social activist are profoundly highlighted as she is an active BGN Member of Bangladesh Youth Leadership Center from 2016, Campus Ambassador for Campaign Red Works for Menstrual Hygiene Issue Awareness for Women from 2017. Apart from teaching she also worked for the BRAC Institute of Educational Development, BRAC University as an Architect at their Humanitarian Play Lab under the Early Childhood Program in Dhaka. After gaining authentic and professional experience and knowledge from her various humanitarian, social, and academic research and projects, she is currently pursuing her Masters of Architecture in Housing and Settlement under the Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology.

Research Profile in different websites: <01.> https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rahanat_Jafar <02.> https://cuet.academia.edu/RahanatJafar <03.> https://www.linkedin.com/in/rahanat-ara-shuchana-30934869/

Field of Interest

Human Settlement & Built Environment, Child Oriented Architecture


Qualification

 

M. Arch (Masters of Architecture)

in

HOUSING & SETTLEMENT

Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology


2019- Continue

B. Arch (Bachelor of Architecture)

Chittagong University of Engineering & Technology

2012-2018



Publications
Serial NoTitleAuthorsInformationsYear
1Rethinking the Residential Environment of the Ship Breaking Workers CommunityRahanat Ara Jafar, Sadia Nowsin1st International Conference on Sustainability in the natural and built environment (iCSNBE-2019, Dhaka)2019
2An Empirical Study on Continuation, Transformation and Transfiguration of Homestead Layout and Space Organization of Handloom Communities in BangladeshRahanat Ara Jafar, A M Rezwanul Habib, Istiaque AhmedProceedings of ARCASIA FORUM 2020, Dhaka 20192019
3The Process of Informal Homemaking and its Association with Health and Well- Being: A Case Study of Konabari Slum in GazipurRahanat Ara Jafar , Istiaque Ahmed and Merazul Islam BhuyanDUET Journal, Volume 7, Issue 1-2, December 20212021
4FUSING NEW METHODS WITH TRADITIONAL MATERIAL RETHINKING INTERVENTIONS IN CHILD PLAY SPACE IN BANGLADESHRahanat Ara Jafar, Tabassum Ul-Zannat, Tahjiba TarannumACA's 1st International Design Research , Volume 7- ISSUE-2Conference Publication Journal2020
5An Investigation on Consecutive Pattern of The Bangladeshi Tripura Community, for Detection of a Dual Activity, “Modular Framework”Tahjiba Tarannum, Rahanat Ara Jafar, Mahbuba AfrinACA's 1st International Design Research , Volume 7- ISSUE-2Conference Publication Journal2020