Darwis Khudori
Architect – Professor of Oriental Studies University Le Havre Normandie, France

Darwis Khudori is graduated as architect (Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia), planner (Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies, Rotterdam, Netherlands) and historian (doctorate from the Université Paris IV-Sorbonne), specialised in History of Contemporary Arab and Muslim World.
As socially engaged architect, he participated in the advocacy and development of Kampung Code, a slum area on the Code riverbank of Yogyakarta, Indonesia (Aga Khan Award for Architecture 1992). He was also the co-architect of a sisters’ convent Bunda Pemersatu, a monastery complex of the Catholic Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance (O.C.S.O.) in Gedono, Salatiga, Central Java, Indonesia (Indonesian Architect Association Award 1991).
Professor in Oriental Studies at the Université Le Havre Normandie, he is also Director of Master’s Degree in Exchanges with Asia, at the Faculty of International Affairs of the university.
Outside university, he is initiator and co-ordinator of Bandung Spirit Network of scholars and activists of social and solidarity movements for global future inspired by the spirit of Asian-African Conference held in Bandung, Indonesia, in 1955.