Capital Remains: Lands for Disassembly

Labor and materials from the Global South often sustain the consumption and growth of the Global North. This economic inequality is evident in Chattogram, Bangladesh, the center of the global shipbreaking industry. Despite the ecological and human harm, the industry is necessary for the region’s economic survival. Capital Remains proposes an alternative architecture that engages contamination and the process of deconstruction as a design condition, transforming these vessels into a stage where human labor confronts the monumental remains of global capital.