During the trip, we visited several small local businesses around Rajshahi area to understand what is available in terms of materials, tools and expertise, but also to get the opportunity to explore traditional processes that are getting lost with the development of a modern Bangladesh. The openness to help and their welcoming attitude was great to collect many information and expand our research domain even more.
Here you can find a short clip to get the feeling for what happens in local workshop, what materials are processed but, most important, the people working there.
The different locations we visited include a mill/wood workshop, a brick factory, a pottery workshop, a pillow/mattress maker, a silk factory, waste pickers, a bamboo bazar, a rickshaw painter workshop, a plastic recycling facility.