Exploitation Trap, Nov. 9 -- The contemporary design incubators and technology centres located within Dhaka's affluent commercial areas, such as Gulshan and Banani, serve as important connecting points between traditional heritage and globalised digital capitalism. In these creative spaces, the digital transformation of local visual culture is clearly visible.

For example, the vibrant floral designs traditionally created on rickshaws in Bangladesh, historically a working-class and subaltern art form, are being digitised and abstractly redesigned by contemporary illustrators. This process does not necessarily reflect Western design patterns; instead, it separates the aesthetics of these designs from their original social and economic envi...