
Khudi Bari
Khudi Bari reminds us to look to locally rooted knowledge to innovate solutions for uncertain futures
Tabassum’s Khudi Bari (Bengali for “tiny house”) is an example of a modular mobile home that, in Bangladesh, is inexpensive, durable, and relatively quick and easy to assembled and disassembled with minimum labor, taking advantage of a rigid space-frame structure to save goods and lives in the wake of flash floods on tiny “desert islands” of sand known as “chars” that precariously dot across the Bengal delta. Land is fluid on the floodplains of Bangladesh, and these islands often break off and erode into the water, forcing people to physically move their home. Khudi Bari reminds us to look to locally rooted knowledge to innovate solutions for uncertain futures. Desert X has commissioned a film about the project in which Tabassum addresses dry and wet cultures and the role of design in enabling life in some of the world’s most extreme climate conditions.
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- Released
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- Language
- Bengali
- desert x
- marina tabassum
- khudi bari
- piplu khan
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Bangladesh
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- Theatrical (limited)4 Mar 2023
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Khudi Bari was released on 4 March 2023.
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