AZEEM HAMID
CURATOR
Sana Akram is an Urbanist, Architect, Photographer, and a Digital Storyteller from Pakistan. Belonging to the culturally diverse and historically rich city of Lahore, her experiences and observations since childhood and further through Architecture School led her to ponder upon multi-faceted questions over ‘image of the city,’ the inevitable changes to it with time, repercussions these changes bring forth within the urban character and how these phenomena influence people; their identity and sense of belonging. In 2017, she was awarded the prestigious Fulbright Scholarship which brought her to New York City and to Little Pakistan. Her interest lies at the confluence of urban narrative, collective memory & place, emergent media, and community-led storytelling. For her, this project marks the beginning of a progressive exploration of emergent media for civic engagement in terms of practice and research.
Little Pakistan – Future Histories is a dérive—a drifting in an online environment illustrating an immigrant neighborhood of Pakistani-Americans spread across three eras. Each era has its own rhythm—with three sets of youth engaged in transformative acts of inhabitation, organizing and resilience, taking Little Pakistan from an ethnic enclave to a concept spreading across Brooklyn, New York City and beyond.
The interactive documentary project is an outcome of research conducted as fulfillment for the MS Design & Urban Ecologies program at The New School and is funded through a grant received via the Fulbright Program.
Little Pakistan – Future Histories is a dérive—a drifting in an online environment illustrating an immigrant neighborhood of Pakistani-Americans spread across three eras. Each era has its own rhythm—with three sets of youth engaged in transformative acts of inhabitation, organizing and resilience, taking Little Pakistan from an ethnic enclave to a concept spreading across Brooklyn, New York City and beyond.
The interactive documentary project is an outcome of research conducted as fulfillment for the MS Design & Urban Ecologies program at The New School and is funded through a grant received via the Fulbright Program.
