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1 week ago

Land of Wells: Designing for Saharan Nomads

In some languages, the very word for building refers to its immovability. The discipline of engineering related to buildings is referred to as statics. Thus, architecture is closely related to the fixed and the immobile. And yet, for millions of nomadic people around the world, shelters must be of a light and distinctly movable structure, while home is the vast landscape in which they reside.
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4 months ago

Under the Open Sky review absorbing portrait of a threatened way of life

A nomadic camel-herding family in Kutch faces drought, industrial encroachment, legal neglect and debt, forcing livestock sales and eroding traditional livelihoods and gendered practices.
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