AECO Cartoons™: Memes About AECO Are Coming

Tarek Ghazzaoui announces, AECO Cartoons™, a new satirical cartoons initiative about AECO, and discusses its vision, its topics and its publishing schedule.

AECO Cartoons™: Memes About AECO Are Coming

Tarek Ghazzaoui announces, AECO Cartoons™, a new satirical cartoons initiative about AECO, and discusses its vision, its topics and its publishing schedule.

I had always been fascinated by the internet as a powerful source of information and learning, from user guides and blogs to videos and forums. However, the rise of social media and smartphones shifted it toward entertainment-driven content, much of it trivial but often funny, especially memes, which I particularly enjoy.

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The Announcement: AECO Cartoons™

I’m excited to share with you the following announcement: I am launching a new initiative called AECO Cartoons™ to share satirical cartoons/memes about BIM situations and issues in the workplace.

Although this may seem weird right now, you will see what I’m talking about as early as next week. I believe it will be fun and very relatable to anyone that has worked or currently works in the field of BIM.

Yep, that’s what the cartoons will look like!

Why AECO Cartoons™

Why not? I already share very serious perspectives about topics in BIM through my blog articles and video podcasts, so this is an avenue for me to be relaxed, funny, sarcastic, and witty online.

Here are the informal objectives of this initiative:

  • FUN – To make fun of situations at work that AECO professionals experience or have experienced
  • ISSUES – To indirectly highlight some of the issues that AECO professionals experience or have experienced using visuals and literary devices, including metaphors, similes, imagery, symbolism, personification, hyperbole, irony, juxtaposition, paradox, allusion, allegory and ekphrasis
  • POINTS OF VIEW – To express points of view from different stakeholders’ perspectives on AECO situations and issues

I decided to add a satire component to my blog as it is one of my favorite and natural ways to express myself, as it combines comedy with sarcasm.

Copyright and rights of use

All Rights Reserved. All cartoon material appearing on the AECO Careers website (“content”) is protected by copyright under Canada’s copyright laws and is the property of Tarek Ghazzaoui or the party credited as the provider of the content. You may not reproduce, perform, modify, create derivative works, or in any way exploit any such content, sell or offer it for sale, or use such content to construct any kind of database.

You may not alter or remove any copyright or other notice from copies of the content on the AECO Careers website. Using the content for academic or commercial purposes is prohibited without prior written permission of Tarek Ghazzaoui or the copyright holder identified in the individual content’s copyright notice. For permission to use the content on the AECO Careers website, please consult the Contact us page.

To read the full disclaimer, please consult the Disclaimer page.

Note: this copyright notice was paraphrased from Montclair State University’s copyright notice. (Source: Copyright And Disclaimer )

Cartoon topics

Well, the bottom line is, nothing is off limits. However, the nature of the cartoons will be more technical than my blog articles and video podcasts, as this type of satire needs to relate to more day-to-day operational situations in the context of BIM.

The following is a non-exhaustive list of the BIM topics that will be made fun of:

  • BIM
  • Corporate management
  • Project management
  • Technical practice
  • Human resources
  • Project and office situations

This should be fun! Right? Right??

Well, I hope that doesn’t get me in hot waters, as all satire is prone to do at some point. What matters is the intent, and I personally don’t have the intention to defame, insult, disrespect, dishonor, cause harm, cause injury, cause loss of reputation or negatively affect any individual, firm, industry, association, organization, country or any of their products, services and third parties. The same applies for gender, age, race, ethnicity, religion, minority group association, political affiliation or any other criteria.

The topics at hand aren’t as sensitive as politics or religion anyways, so let’s all just take it easy and have fun!

Schedule

I plan on posting AECO Cartoons™ every week starting on October 29th, 2021, right on time to cheer you up for the weekend! Since most of us are working from home, consider this an online donut. You’re welcome.

Final thoughts

I put in a lot of thought, time and effort into launching AECO Cartoons™ as a funny and smart satire in a cartoons format. As far as I know and I see, there is nothing like it anywhere online, so I hope it will be appreciated and widely shared. My vision is to make BIM professionals in the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) industry chuckle, smile and laugh at situations they can relate to in their everyday work.

After all, we do make jokes that revolve around some of the topics I will touch on in these cartoons, but the difference here is this initiative is more professional, official and public. As I mentioned in the article, I have no bad intentions towards anyone, so let’s all have a good laugh!

Thank you for taking the time to read my blog article and I’ll see you again soon.

Tarek Ghazzaoui, Eng.

Senior BIM Manager

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Tarek Ghazzaoui, Eng. (Senior BIM Manager)
Tarek is a building engineer with experience in Design Technology since 2010. He is passionate about helping AEC firms manage change and leverage the use of technology and computational design to improve organizational cultures, tackle complex workflows and overcome challenging designs. Tarek worked with and managed interdisciplinary BIM teams up to 70+ members on major construction projects in Canada, ranging from $200M to $2.2B, including airports, hospitals, sports complexes, factories as well as residential, commercial and mixed-use projects. He is a professional member of OIQ, ASHRAE and PMI, and speaks several languages (fluent in English, French and Arabic, intermediate in Russian and beginner in Mandarin Chinese).
Picture of Tarek Ghazzaoui, Eng. (Senior BIM Manager)
Tarek Ghazzaoui, Eng. (Senior BIM Manager)
Tarek is a building engineer with experience in Design Technology since 2010. He is passionate about helping AEC firms manage change and leverage the use of technology and computational design to improve organizational cultures, tackle complex workflows and overcome challenging designs. Tarek worked with and managed interdisciplinary BIM teams up to 70+ members on major construction projects in Canada, ranging from $200M to $2.2B, including airports, hospitals, sports complexes, factories as well as residential, commercial and mixed-use projects. He is a professional member of OIQ, ASHRAE and PMI, and speaks several languages (fluent in English, French and Arabic, intermediate in Russian and beginner in Mandarin Chinese).
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“Copyright and Disclaimer.” Copyright And Disclaimer – Montclair State University, www.montclair.edu/about-montclair/copyright-and-disclaimer/.

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