Monuments of resistance and the politics of memory
Now is the prime time to claim, and even reclaim, what is rightfully ours, and to discard what no longer represents Bangladesh Version 2.0.
26 November 2024, 02:00 AM
Rethinking Dhaka's Urbanism: A Child's World in a Manmade City
In 1998, at Shangshad Chattar, an infant was relishing fresh air in the country’s largest and most emblematic civic-space.
28 June 2020, 18:00 PM
An urban demise is on its way: How can we stop it?
Throughout human history, people have claimed and controlled nature and have built empires of civilisations.
22 March 2020, 18:00 PM
Spaces of ambivalence
"Each monumental space becomes the metaphorical and quasi-metaphorical underpinning of a society, this by the virtue of a play of substitutions in which the religious and political realms symbolically (and ceremonially) exchange attributes—the attributes of power.” —Henri Lefebvre.
3 March 2020, 18:00 PM