Sen’s triptych finds its genesis in Bangladesh architect Marina Tabbasum’s Khudi Bari (tiny house) project. Done in bamboo, the houses appear on slits in the embroidered panels. In reality, they can be assembled and disassembled on site. The Sundarbans Car region, prone to flooding, is home to numerous refugees and Tabbasum has been working in this area since 2018, building huts that can weather rising tides. Usually, when architecture projects are presented, the context is rarely shown, the focus is on the site and structure.

Sen’s panels provide the context of the entire ecosystem that these huts are placed in, as a result, allowing the very fabric of the society to unspool. Since the houses were built for refugees primarily, Sen thought it was important to work with the marginalised for this project. It led him to SHE Kanta, a collective that works with women kantha artisans, founded by Shamlu and Malika Dudeja Varma, who began the NGO almost 30 years ago.

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