 Let me start. I was driving last week From where I was to Piazza and I just stopped when I saw this view of This beautiful old building against the backdrop of What's the new is coming and I just sat for a moment took this picture and I asked myself What do I see? Do I see fragility? Do I do I feel that tension between the old and the new? of more older traditional forms of architecture That to me represents our values our identity our heritage our culture versus the new which is kind of Tall taller, it's very new shiny. I think it's gonna be shiny most of it and and Yeah, it was a very profound moment for me because this was a tension of where our city is and myself as an architect Of course this picture is not telling the whole story about what's happening in our city Obviously, but it tells where we're going or what our intention to go is In this rapidly Transforming city in the last two decades We grapple with this as designers are professionals as residents We grapple with this tension and find ourselves Breathless in fact on the on the fastness of the growth Because when it's so fast, you really are not in control of either your urban fabric your resident The way you build and the way you actually bring bring bring ideas onto the ground and So though clearly what we inherited In the built environment was by no means the best example of especially inclusive planning where distribution of wealth To all residents was equal. My question is when we go towards fast urbanization How are we building our buildings? How are we actually transforming the cities from the city scale? To maybe when we go to the human scale where we are using new buildings new concepts But actually the how we implement it is rather poor Very chaotic and very unfit for our environment So I go back to our identity that we can live that both can live together our sense of scale the way we used to build our buildings the way our tradition our You know Unique indigenous styles of building. That's what we have to kind of learn from even in our public spaces These are our landmarks whenever there is road networks that are converging. We have beautiful landmarks against beautiful and Set of buildings. What about our public spaces? We have enjoyed the spaces Mascals square is the way we where we meet up and this is an amazing Identity for us through different regimes So for me the question is how then through this fast urbanization How can we then build a livable city and a city that we and we've talked about what the livable city should be but my question is What about inclusivity and how do we Include within special planning as well as others economic and otherwise What do we actually do on the ground because I'm an architect and I'm so involved on on the ground thinking How do we bring excellence? I mean we're we're doing all this mega projects. We're you know Expanding we've done so many things in at this, but how why can we not? refer to excellence as our Trademark because historically, Ethiopia has done amazing buildings. So Again going back same space, but a little different perspective I saw the soldier standing and I felt this is me speak I mean as a resident and not as a as an architect. Where am I in this? Am I a bystander? Am I part of this change? Am I part of the change that is building this nation or part of this? Of of of this person that is standing by and not being part of a participatory process that actually Is my main agenda today? Where is the participation? Where are we as residents? What is our stake and this is on behalf of the people and behalf of myself? Thank you very much