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Dhaka – On Climate Change and Urbanisation in Bangladesh

Project title:

Dhaka – On Climate Change and Urbanisation in Bangladesh

“This ongoing documentary project combines photography and video, exploring the effects of urbanisation and climate change on Dhaka and Bangladesh.”

Researcher:

Ismar Uzeirovic


Output:

aerial shot of a shanty town beside a river

Find out about Ismar Uzeirovic’s photographic exhibition at the University of Roehampton in 2022.


Project proposal:

This ongoing documentary project combines photography and video, exploring the effects of urbanisation and climate change on Dhaka and Bangladesh. For this extension of the project, the researcher will extend the project beyond Dhaka to look at coastal areas that will be affected and Mongla, one of the cities targeted by Bangladesh’s Building Climate Resilient Migrant Friendly Towns strategy.

Man carrying huge bundle of sticks on his head.

Photo by Ismar Uzeirovic

Themes:

Enabling transformational change

Encouraging the arts

Seeking justice

Promoting wellbeing

Nurturing rooted communities

Thinking globally

Amplifying voices

Posted on 19th April 2019 by Emma Pavey Filed Under: 2019-2020, Academic Year, Discipline, Encouraging the arts, Nurturing rooted communities, Research Projects, Seeking justice, Theme, Visual Arts

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