Oxford Brookes Students Bring EWAP Ethnographic Data to Life
This summer, two Oxford Brookes students joined the Endangered Wooden Architecture Programme (EWAP) as summer interns to creatively engage with its extensive ethnographic archive. Their mission: to produce two short films that visually communicate the stories and significance of endangered wooden architectural traditions documented by EWAP researchers. One of the videos focuses on the project Afloat for Centuries: The Flat-bottomed Indus Boats , led by Anila Naeem and Farida A. Ghaffar, N.E.D University of Engineering and Technology. This research, carried out in Pakistan, documents the houseboats of the Mohanna community - an indigenous group of fishermen living along the Indus River. These intricately designed, flat-bottomed boats are not only homes but the heart of a river-based cultural landscape that is rapidly vanishing due to ecological degradation, reduced freshwater flows, and industrial encroachment. The student-produced video weaves together footage and interviews to highlig...
