Urban Typography as Artifacts: Activating Collective Memory in Dhaka City

Urban streetscapes are theatrical constructs of urban memory, relationship, and activity. A street is not a production of just a physical definition of environments—but also the nuanced collective memories of the urbanites. Ubiquitous assemblage and diverse range of both contemporary and decaying wall arts, typographic experiments, political slogans on public wall, storefront displays, and other modes of legible attributes—all create an active identity and shared experience. In this paper, visual occupation of political wall art and graphic illustration of letterform in Dhaka, the capital in Bangladesh, will be evaluated through Rossi’s ‘locus solus’—a unique characteristic of a place.

https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.AM.107.46

Volume Editors
Amy Kulper, Grace La & Jeremy Ficca

ISBN
978-1-944214-21-0