Eldorado
by Elisa Chiari
portfolio special mention call 'Urbanautica Institute Awards 2023', 2023
Category: Nature, Environment and Perspectives
Bangladesh is one of the countries most affected by the climate crisis in the world and has the largest number of eco-migrants.
It is estimated that sea level rise will submerge about 17% of its coastal land, leading to the displacement of about 20 million people by 2050. Entire rural areas, characterised by high levels of poverty and dependent on agriculture, are being inundated with water and families are losing their fields and homes.
Every day, between 1,000 and 2,000 people are displaced in Dhaka and Chittagong. Thousands of ecomigrant families embark on long journeys hoping to find a new Eldorado, but end up worsening their living conditions.
Urbanisation and the inevitable exodus to the cities increase the risk of human insecurity and social conflict. Often these people end up in slums, where hygiene and sanitary conditions are minimal.
The project was developed in August 2023 between Kishoreganj, a rural area in the north of Bangladesh that is being flooded, via the ships that ecomigrants take to get to Dhaka, and into a slum in the capital, where hundreds of families live crammed into slums housed around 100 square feet in size.
also from Urbanautica Institute Awards 2023