Hireath : Reminiscence of home

The studio attempts to bridge the gap between theory and architectural design by drawing upon Pierre Nora’s Between Memory and History: Les lieux de mémoire, to design the Bengal Partition Museum. In spite of the constant tussle between memory and history, an attempt is made to foreground memory and make it ‘a living thing’. The project presented an opportunity to juxtapose the diaspora during Bengal Partition against the present global refugee crisis. ‘Hiraeth’ is a welsh word, that can be loosely translated in English as a ‘yearning for home’. The place called ‘home’ is not a geographical entity but an emotion.