(We are sorry for not to update the news of the last Discourse on last Thursday… however here’s the review of what happened there:)
Yesterday we talked about the progress of the Dhaka Workshop.
Jumu sir instructed some new jobs like collecting the satellite images of some areas of Dhaka from google earth and seaming them into one big image, translating the lectures by Dr. Abu Sayeed M. Ahmed into English after listening them from the recording, taking photographs of few more areas including Karwan Bazar and Chakbazar area etc.

Mehrab did a great job. He scanned a whole book comprising all the important works during 1970 to 1980 and he has made a PowerPoint presentation virsion with all the drawings and texts in a CD. We watched the entire digital book.
It is declared and requested to everyone of Discourse to collect the copy of the CD for 100 TK by the next week, and everyone is requested to sell a copy of this CD to other interested people also. This will help us to grow our own fund. So that from the next Discourse may hold our own events like public seminars or exhibitions or publications by our own fund. And of course everyone is encouraged to do something what Mehrab did alone. These works will help Discourse to set more milestones like muzharulislam.com and Muzharul Islam Archive, Dhaka Workshop etc.

We saw the design chronology of some projects by Tanya Karim NR Khan and Associates. It was really amazing to see some experimental projects like those which are built by these days!

However, after the next discourse on coming Thursday we will meet at TKNRK office on Friday (11th August 2006) morning to do the final works of Dhaka Workshop. It will be a day long session from morning till over the next night… as we worked during making the muzharulislam.com . People who are working (or willing to work) with Dhaka Workshop are requested to come that day with all the works done. And take a preparation to fasten your belts tight with the working desks in the office to give tight fight for the best out-come of the Dhaka Workshop.

We are going to watch ‘Dead Poets Society’ today (24.07.2006, Thursday). Discourse starts at 18:00 bdt same place.
Everyone’s invited.

As it was declared, today it’s going to be the last working day of Dhaka Workshop in Discourse.
Today we hope to get a map with all the pin of location of the historical sites in it, a regenerated panorama of Buriganga river, photographs of historical architectures, relevant texts and information, sketches regarding all the considered sites from all the teams working in particular duties.
If things go smooth we are also going to compile the entire data collected by the teams today.

Then we’ll look forward to build the interactive presentation in which all the information will be compiled in near future.
Come and join in the venture, be apart of a great work ever done..

When: 18:00 (Bangladesh Standard Time), Thursday, July 20, 2006
Where: The Open Studio,
Dept. of Architecture, The University of Asia Pacific,
H# 51, R# 4A, Dhanmondi, Dhaka.
Call (Jumu sir) for any query at: +8801711520037

Though at the beginning of Dhaka workshop 4 teams were formed for performing particular duty to achieve the ultimate goal of the workshop, now teams do seem not that enthusiastic as they were at the beginning! May be it’s for the pressure of everyone’s continuing design studio.
But anyhow we are targeted to reach the goal of this workshop. Ultimately the output will be an electronic publication of all the historical and architectural information gathered regarding the history of Dhaka in a pdf e-book, another thing is… at the end of the workshop we are going to develop an interactive software… something like google earth! The software will start with a detail map of Dhaka city (contemporary), each and every historical and important buildings and sites will be located in it. On-mouse-over detail information about the buildings will be popped up, on-click more detail info and images will come up. There will also be a timeline of chronological maps of Dhaka city in the software. Now our prime job is to collect information as much as possible regarding history of Dhaka.

Any one can join in any group of the workshop anytime. Just join in work, collect and compile information and help out the teams. Call to N.R. Khan (Jumu sir) for any query at +88001711520037.

Today it will be the third meeting of Dhaka workshop. Everyone is invited to attend the session.
When: at 18:00 BDT (13th July, 2006, Thursday)
Where: The Open Studio, Dept. of Architecture, The University of Asia Pacific, H#51, R#4A, Dhanmondi, Dhaka, Bangladesh.