Dhaka : A City Woven from Water
Monsoon Assemblages
[2021]
A series of cartographies exploring Dhaka from the continental to city scale through the lens of monsoonal waters. Dhaka is in perpetual dialogue with the monsoon through the hydrological cycle, its very existence woven from and enmeshed within fluctuating monsoon waters.
Monsoonal Bangladesh : Terra-Aqueous Land. A speculative sectional drawing through Dhaka (90.4125° Lon) simulated using computational fluid dynamics software depicting the complex forces and interactions between tectonic and climatic materials and flows.
Dhaka : Topographic Plan and Section. Topographic plan and section of Dhaka and the surrounding terrain showing the elevated Madhupur Clay Tract and the subterranean Dupi Tila aquifer.
Urban Expansion of Dhaka : 1994 - 2016. Dhaka’s expansion since 1994 highlighting areas of real estate created by dredging and pumping sand.
Dhaka’s Garment Industry. A drawing of Dhaka showing the location of garment factories and their impact on aquifer depletion and river water quality.
Work created as part of Monsoon Assemblages : A project funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme.
Grant Agreement No.679873.
© 2021 John Cook
