Name: Robin Ringel
Track: Architecture
Studio: Global Housing
Year: 2025 / MSc3/4
Type: Graduation Project
Tutor: Marina Tabassum, Nelson Mota, Ludovica Cassina, Antonio Paoletti
Description:
Bangladesh is a country of extremes — of beauty and resilience, but also of density and inequality. As the changing climate intensifies seasonal floods, livelihoods in the country’s wetland areas are eroding, forcing many rural migrants to leave their homes for cities like Dhaka or Sylhet. This creates cityscapes marked by stark contrasts between those who build and those who benefit. Many seek income and livelihood security but lack dignified, affordable housing, often ending up on the urban fringes where social support is scarce and benefits are fewer than in the ancestral lands they left behind. As migration accelerates, cities must rethink how to house displaced communities yet to come. The proposed Assembly of Livelihoods draws on community-based dwelling patterns and the myriad reasons people migrate to cities. It represents an attempt to find common ground between displacement and rootedness, guilt and empowerment, and — at ‘the intersection of necessity and dignity’ — between crisis and hope.