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Geography and Maps

All posts related to geography and maps

Everything related to geography and maps are archived in this Area of Focus.

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A Special Workshop: Learning GIS and Remote Sensing – November 2018

A two-week long training workshop from 18th — 29th November, 2018, on the fundamentals of GIS (Geographic Information System) and RS (Remote Sensing)
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Mapping Workshop with Anthony Acciavatti

Changes of State: Making Instruments in a Monsoonal Landscape - A two-day-long workshop with Anthony Acciavatti, 28th - 30th April, 2018 at Bengal Institute.
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Fall 2017: September – November Session: Scale Is Everything: LARGE/MEDIUM/HUMAN

A seven week long special session brought renowned architects, landscape architects and academics for a fantastic series of design workshops, seminars and other special events.
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Spring 2017: March Session: How to Read the City and Other Things

The March Session offered a brilliant, diverse lineup of global faculties.
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Spring 2016: March Session: Place/Form

The month of March was very special to us. Along with our academic programs we organised a three-day long international symposium “Architecture Now/Next,” the first of its kind event in Bangladesh. Renowned local and international speakers and panelists.
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Spring 2016: February Session: Tropical Topics

The tropical climate is unique in its own diverse way and it has a direct impact on the design of our built environment; thus ‘tropics’ as a topic is in the discussion of design, architecture and situated place making ever since the modernism and beyond.
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Fall 2015: November Session: Architecture and the City

The session began with exercises ideas of designing small towns, which continued as an elaborate studio work on designing Mymensingh as an example of a small town.
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Fall 2015: September Session: Cities and Settlements

This session explored the fundamentals of human settlements, large scale designs and cities. The discussion also brought in topics of how funding organizations and local community get involved in a project like designing new villages from scratch.
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Next Sylhet Exhibition

Next Sylhet: : Visions for a New Urban Future
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Bengal Architecture Symposium 01: Now/Next – Peter Buchanan

Peter Buchanan at Bengal Architecture Symposiums: Now/Next
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In the Terrain of Rain – Anuradha Mathur and Dilip da Cunha

The way we draw and see deltas, rivers, rain, land and gardens, may be completely wrong!
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Anuradha Mathur and Dilip da Cunha Studio

Participants were asked to bring camera and sketching materials for an excursion on the river. Professor Mathur and Cunha instructed them to observe the landscape and activities on both sides of the river Dhaleshwari.
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Dhaka Food Flow and Dynamics

An article written by Mohammad Arfar Razi on the state of food-security in Bangladesh.
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Mapping It All!

Muntakim Haque and Afifa Razzaque write on the significance of Mapping based partially on the Bengal Institute lectures by Timmy Aziz,
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