Lost and Found
The following are mapping projects in progress. You are welcome to interact with them and participate in the project and/or leave feedback in the comment section below.
Project 1: Selective Archiving Map
This research project is a collaboration of Karachi-based journalist, Akhtar Balouch and myself. Together we are working to produce an online map that exposes the layers of Pakistan’s history from a different elevation. The streets renamed in Karachi, in the old towns, from Hindu and British to Muslim names, are still identified by both names by different people; the signboards on each store have different addresses in the colonial quarter. The map highlights these discrepancies, and hopes to brings critical questions around religion and archiving to the foreground. While this account is necessarily limited, such intimacy affords access to the community’s habitations, learning processes, and collaborations that exist between and around typical institutional narratives and historical accounts, that often go unaccounted for.
Project 2: Karachi-City-District
A Karachi map with intersecting layers of Land Ownership, Growth, Ethnicities and Muncipal Divisions.
Resource Guide
Here you will key definitions and visuals pertinent to this project. "What Is..?” holds history(/ies), processes and practices that have been at play in the city - it problematizes, analyzes and critiques the current urban realm - Message-Making. "What If..?" is geared towards Future-Making - it proposes, evokes and imagines alternate social imaginaries.