Concept project · climate reporting · explorable map story

Floodlines

A prototype for a future interactive project about how floodwater moves through the Dhaka edge, who gets displaced first, and how uneven the response can feel from one area to another. This page works as a design sample for the kind of interactive project your portfolio can hold.

Format Story-first map narrative with layered district snapshots

Theme Climate vulnerability, mobility, and emergency response

Status Concept example for project showcase design

Concept report Climate + city reporting Interactive map-style narrative

After a major rainfall event, flood reporting often reduces whole neighbourhoods to one image: a submerged road, a stalled bus, a dramatic rescue frame. But the real story unfolds unevenly. Water recedes at different speeds. Schools reopen at different times. Work routes disappear for some residents and barely shift for others.

Floodlines is designed as a journalism project that would let readers move through those uneven realities district by district. Instead of one generic “Dhaka flood” article, it would tell a more layered story about infrastructure, visibility, and who gets counted when the city floods.

Interactive module

Switch districts, watch the story change

18h Standing water

1.8ft Peak depth

65% Routes disrupted

2/5 Response access score

Demra absorbs overflow without much visibility

The strongest version of this project would pair rainfall data with on-the-ground diaries, commuter routes, school closure notes, and interview clips from families whose flooding is treated as routine rather than exceptional.

Prototype metrics are illustrative and here to demonstrate the project format.

What the reporting would show

The strongest version of this piece would combine rainfall records, local route disruption, school closure data, field interviews, and a simple geographic interface. The point is not to build a complicated dashboard. It is to let the reporting stay close to people while still helping the reader compare scale and pattern.

A journalism version of this page would probably move between a resident's day, a map state, a response timeline, and a final accountability question: which places are repeatedly expected to absorb damage in silence?

Reporting unit

One neighbourhood at a time, so differences in recovery do not disappear inside citywide averages.

Visual unit

Comparable district states: flood duration, travel interruption, water depth, and response reach.

Reporting prompts built into the design

Before water

What decisions made these places vulnerable before the rainfall event even happened?

During water

Who loses mobility first: schoolchildren, workers, patients, or informal vendors?

After water

Which forms of recovery get documented, and which ones stay invisible inside households?