Mehedi HASAN (mehashu13@gmail.com) is a student in the Professional Master's programme in Disaster Management at the Institute of Disaster Management and Vulnerability Studies (IDMVS), University of Dhaka. He completed his Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch.) from the Military Institute of Science and Technology (MIST). His cross-disciplinary studies revolve around architecture, Intangible heritage risks, settlements of ethnic minorities, concentrating especially on vernacular architecture of Bangladesh.