Month: November 2017

Academic Exchange Seminar, University of Khulna

While on a field trip to Bangladesh in November 2017, Lindsay Bremner and students of Design Studio 18 (DS18) from the University of Westminster visited the Architecture Discipline at the University of Khulna where they participated in an academic exchange seminar. They were welcomed and introduced to staff and students by Professor Anirban Mostafa, Head […]

Impressions of Bangladesh

Tight fit, jam packed, jerky traffic, honking horns. Stares, more stares, more and more stares. Horizon … Horizon … Horizon Tubes, pumping throbbing silt, intricate bamboo supports. Never stopping, earth recycling, recycling everything. Water. Stagnant, black, grey, green, moving, held, ponded, pulsing, rippling, still, as-far-as-the-eye-can-see, water hyacinth. Everywhere. Incessant activity, hammering, making, breaking, remaking, loading, […]

Slowness

From the 1st to the 13th of August over the summer this year, I was part of the Planetary Futures Summer School in Montreal which was housed at the Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture and Technology at Concordia University and led by Orit Halpern, Pierre-Louis Patoine, Marie-Pier Boucher and Perig Pitrou. My attendance was partially […]