User:Fazli.azeem



Qazi Fazli Azeem is Pakistan's first & South Asia's only International self advocate for the Autism Spectrum since 2006.

Fazli Azeem (full name: Qazi Fazli Azeem) was a full-time faculty member for Communication Design at the No 1. private non-profit Art & Design university in Karachi, Pakistan.

Azeem is in the US till June 2014 through the US State Department's Fulbright Scholarship, for his MFA (Communication Design) at MassArt's Dynamic Media Institute and researched creative learning technologies & platforms at the MIT Media Lab's Lifelong Kindergarten group He is also a Global Design Ambassador for the International Interaction Design Foundation of Denmark.

He has presented at Autism Conferences and ASD workshops in Pakistan (2006-2012), India (2008) , Qatar (2008), UK (2008) and Bangladesh (2009). He was the honorary Director for community services at the Rotary Club of Karachi Frere Town and led the national Autism awareness day campaigns in Pakistan since it started in 2008. He spoke at a panel at the United Nations in NY on World Autism Awareness Day 2013. He served on the Advisory Board of "Artpreneurs for Change", Pakistan's pilot "Art-Therapy for special needs" teacher training program, a US State Department's Alumni Engagement Fund project. Before coming to the US in 2012, Azeem was a senior lecturer for design at the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture at Karachi, Pakistan. Azeem was a researcher for the first New Media history report on Pakistan. He represented IVS in a national consortium of universities who won the 2011 bid for the World Bank's mLab South Asia mobile application design, education and research project.

His interview was published in the 2010 book by Adam Feinstein (UK) "A History of Autism: conversations with the pioneers" and his Art has been featured in the 2010-2011 "Art of Autism" books in the US by Debbie Hosseini. His essays on mentoring youth with Autism spectrum disorders are being published in a book "Been There. DoneThat. Try This! - An Aspie's Guide to Life on Earth" in 2014 by JessicaKingsley publishers, edited by Dr. Tony Attwood, Craig Evans and Anita Lesko. Qazi Fazli Azeem was a 2012 Adventure Catalyst for the greater Boston area's Tedxbeaconstreet Ted conference. . He helped organize the first (MIT) Scratch day in Pakistan in 2012, through his research at the MIT Media Lab's Lifelong Kindergarten group.

For details about his Design, Art and Trainings, see http://www.fazliazeem.com and his Graphic Design Portfolio (2012 and earlier)

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