Nomads Within the Modern City
Lahore is home to more than half a million Khaanabadosh who live below the poverty line (G.O.D.H, 2020). Politically and socially disenfranchised, they are deprived of citizenship on the basis of their nomadic status and, along with it, access to basic amenities. This on-ground reality calls for a need to shift the focus of our narrative from the conventional towards a reconciliation of the notions of nomadism and architecture, in order to emphasize the idea of nomadic resistance within architecture.
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– Aiman Shahid is a self-proclaimed literary geek with a soft spot for the more historic edges of reality. Born in Lahore, Pakistan, she graduated from National College of Art in 2024 and is now surviving her first year of professional Architect-dom. She dabbles in illustration and photography when the urge to chuck bricks at the bleaker parts of life becomes too great.
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