Prianka Smita will defend her thesis “Render Authenticity” on Tuesday September 15 at 6:30 PM at the BRIDGE Centre for Architecture + Design. Her thesis examines the rich history and unique culture of the Shakhari Bazar and proposes to instigate a healthy and informed dialogue to create a common goal of sustainable micro economy that refuses to accept uniformity and the disappearance of memory.
Prianka Smita continues the story of the Shakhari Bazar in her piece Elasticity of Optimism which contemplates the role of the many crafts people and their value in maintaining the identity of the street.
As we approach the future, we have a strong urge to remember and obsessively conserve every object of the past. This is where Michael Guggenheim, a present day sociologist, brings up one of the relationship between building and time, where ‘buildings represent time’ itself. It is important to understand the role of memory in this context. Memory has the ability to ‘recreate or re-enact former states’ from the various objects or elements that are present in the...
In Parasitic or Symbiotic, Prianka Smita shares the narrative of her thesis research through her series of encounters with the family of the Shakhari Bazar, a 16th century historical street of narrow storefronts in old Dhaka.
Prianka Smita shares the narrative of her first encounters with the family of the Shakhari Bazar, a traditional street of narrow storefronts in an old neighbourhood of Dhaka, Bangladesh.