Farasha Zaman, a landscape architect and Weitzman alumna, and Ruhul Abdin and Kazi Arefin, co-founders of Paraa, a research-based design and architecture studio in Dhaka, Bangladesh are examining Machan, a community center in the informal settlement of Korail, Dhaka. The design of the center was facilitated by Paraa in collaboration with residents and local leaders through a years-long participatory process.
![The revitalization of Minnesota’s Fort Snelling foregrounds the Dakota people’s pre-existing relationship to the landscape and the fort’s role in their exile. [Source: Farm Kid Studios]](https://praxis.upenn.edu/wp-content/uploads/elementor/thumbs/Picture1-rsq4bp9wbdaukvbnpep3s9njfsc3wxg2kvb0thbl34.jpg "FortSnelling-hero")