The Memory Workshop Pavilion is a participatory installation designed as a testing ground, enabler, and archive for community responses to climate change. Built from reusable industrial scaffolding, polycarbonate sheeting, PVC tarpaulin, and donated cloth, the pavilion is deliberately assembled from the quickest and oldest mediums of shelter, materials anyone can source, rent, or return to the market.

The design is organised around four layers of experience: Welcome, which invites communities to accept and grieve the loss of a once-reliable monsoon; Prepare, which tests collective readiness through quickly assembled protective systems; Coexist, which moves between separation and connection through adjustable partitions; and Remember, which gathers people to share oral histories, ecological knowledge, and the lived memory of weather.

Cloth donated by local communities or sourced from textile factory waste becomes a long-term tapestry project - stitched, patched, and collaged as a material archive of stories and climate memory. The gutter details are purposely designed to amplify the sound of rain, making the weather itself part of the experience.

The pavilion sits within a broader argument: that climate action is not only a technical or political challenge but a phenomenological one, rooted in how communities feel, remember, and narrate their relationship with the natural world.

This project was co-designed with Eshan Pradhan and recieved a special mention from the panel. It was presented as part of the Shelters of Shelters exhibition in December 2024.