Nida Rehman The Intractable Garden: Improvement and Unruliness in Lahore’s Landscape | LB03

Talk by Nida Rehman
5th November 2024
Lahore Museum Auditorium
Nida Rehman is a Pakistani-born urban geographer and architect, and Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, where she serves as Track Chair for the PhD in Architecture program. She examines histories, politics and ecologies of urban landscapes, and how people engage urban nature to create possibilities for change. She explores these issues through her research on cultural landscapes and political ecologies in Lahore, Pakistan; through collaborative work as co-founder of the South Asia Urban Climates collective; and community-centered approaches to environmental and spatial justice in the Mon Valley.
Rehman is working on a book, The Intractable Garden: Improvement and unruliness in Lahore’s landscapes, which examines how the material history of changing climates under colonial improvement in Punjab continues to press on and is challenged in the contemporary megacity.
As the closing program of the third edition of the Lahore Biennale, the Climate Congress offered an occasion for South-South conversations around the role of the arts and humanities to meaningfully contribute to wider efforts to generate awareness and support for imagining sustainable futures.
Lahore Biennale 03: Climate Congress
Convened by Iftikhar Dadi and John Tain
November 2-November 8, 2024