Project Overview
This project investigates the impact of excessive flooding in the Ravi floodplain. It questions existing design and planning responses to climate crisis while documenting understandings of the river as nurtured by local communities. 

Index: Kinara-e-Ravi
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Alternate Imaginaries for the Kinara
Ravi: Tales from a River
Redrawing Constructed Landscapes
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critical encounters

on shifting climate cultures
02.Ravi: Tales from a River

Directed by Mahwish Khalil
Produced by Huma Gupta
2023 Shortfilm
Run time (9:14)
A Climate Futures, Cities Past Production
Supported by Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture and MIT Department of Architecture

Set on the banks of the river Ravi in Lahore, Pakistan, Ravi: Tales from a River stages a conversation between the prose of an aging boatman and the poetic reminiscences of the river to capture a glimpse of the river's earlier promise before the city's growing infrastructure gradually consumes its ecological heritage.


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