We found our spot on the riverside Buriganga on a strip of state-owned land covered with a dusty football ground and some banana plants. When we first walked through the narrow alley between a cabin and a house to enter the field, already a crowd of kids followed us curiously. It was the perfect spot: already engaged by the local youth and visible for all people living around.
After our one-month-long stay at Britto, we felt the need to communicate the works of our residency in a showcase at Britto Space. A lot had happened: much work had gone into the public community garden in Hasnabad, meeting the neighborhood every day, and also noticing the social changes beside the physical transformation of the place. In our exhibit, we focused on talking about these notions of change around the garden within the capital of Bangladesh – the city under construction.
After weeks of work everything was set to plant. So we bought vegetables and flowers, enough for all the kids to plant at least one and prepared a joyful event to celebrate all the work and the opening of the garden together.
The documentary “Community Garden Hasnabad” offers a compelling portrayal of the collaborative efforts of CONNECTING ECOSYSTEMS to cultivate a vibrant green space in the heart of Dhaka.
While our time in Dhaka (Bangladesh) was quite structured by the execution of several projects it was filled with meeting old and new friends too. Some of the days, Nirob Tahsan joined our endeavours and documented the efforts and joys in working collaboratively and spending time together in his diverse photography.
