Saimum Kabir is an architect and assistant professor, currently pursuing his PhD research at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He is the founding editor of contextbd.com—a web platform on architecture education and practice in Bangladesh. A graduate from BUET and KULuven Belgium, Saimum is interested in the socio-ecological understanding of human settlement. Several of his works have been published in local journals. As an active researcher, Saimum has been conducting research in urban resilience with a focus on non-linear understanding of city-disaster nexus. His research is jointly funded by BNH CRC and the Melbourne School of Design.