This paper critically examines the impacts of social media-based business on urban residential architecture in Dhaka, Bangladesh and joins the growing body of work in critical HCI. Based on a seven-month-long qualitative empirical study in Dhaka, this paper reports how Facebook commerce (F-commerce) drives many local women to actively engage in home-based businesses, which in turn, challenges the inherent spatial regulations of modern residential architecture. [See More] [Related Paper]

This demonstration is built on the postcolonial scholar, Homi Bhabha's idea of Ambivalence and exhibits experiences of "smooth" and "rough" tactile feelings simultaneously to convey to a typical smartphone user the struggles of electronic waste (e-waste) workers when they dismantle, test, and recycle broken electronic devices. [See More] [Related Paper]

To avoid increasing traffic congestions and to achieve a global city aesthetic, recent infrastructural city development interventions in Dhaka city are focusing on transforming the sidewalks only as a street component for uninterrupted pedestrian movement. Such functionally linear thinking around sidewalks has resulted in wider roads, narrower sidewalks, evictions of street vendors and other service providers, and hence, economic and cultural marginalization of the city’s significant portion of the informal workforce. This project documents the stories from five dynamic sidewalks at five different areas of Dhaka city to make such marginalization spatially visible and provides alternative frameworks for the future development of diverse and inclusive sidewalks. [See More] [Related Paper]

POLAArizing Ray and the Collapse of Space” is speculative research into the distinct image practices of artists from different 1950s worlds: those of the Bengali writer and filmmaker Satyajit Ray and the London artists and architects who produced the exhibition Parallel of Life and Art (POLAA). [See More]

This paper joins the growing body of HCI literature that focuses on Muslim Feminism and explores the impact of online image sharing platforms on the lives of Muslim women in Bangladesh. [Related Paper]

In rural Bangladeshi domestic context, socially embedded patriarchal practices generate different forms of spatial marginalizations. Ranging from a rural household's spatial arrangements to the speculative development strategies of the rural, gender politics play a significant role in determining women's position in a spatial context. [See More]

This collaborative research explores discrepancies between the founding assumptions of mobile and ubiquitous computing in the western world and the starkly different experiences of mobility and infrastructure to be found in many post-colonial environments.[See More]

This project focuses on the climate analysis of Kutubdia, Cox’s Bazar. Analytic data of Sun-path, Dry Bulb Temperature, Relative Humidity, Psychrometric Chart, Precipitation, historical Cyclonic storm track, wind velocity and direction, tidal water level height, etc. help to understand the design challenges and opportunities of understudied contexts like this.[See More]