Nubras Samayeen

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Now is the prime time to claim, and even reclaim, what is rightfully ours, and to discard what no longer represents Bangladesh Version 2.0.

3d ago

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.

4y ago

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.

4y ago

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.

4y ago
November 26, 2024
November 26, 2024

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Now is the prime time to claim, and even reclaim, what is rightfully ours, and to discard what no longer represents Bangladesh Version 2.0.

June 29, 2020
June 29, 2020

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.

March 23, 2020
March 23, 2020

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.

March 4, 2020
March 4, 2020

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.