I do have a beautiful memory when I was young of being dressed up for a wedding.

Our dressing are always very colorful in Bangladesh.

And we have large families, as you know, in our country.

And you have to invite everybody.

Otherwise, people will not be happy.

So it's not like 200, 300 people. It's like 1,000 altogether. So you have to have a large space.

Welcome to the documentary in the studio from the BBC World Service, where we wander into the minds of some of the most creative people on the planet.

I'm Erica Wright, and today I want to explore how childhood celebrations can shape our creative futures.

Memories of large family weddings in Dhaka have really stayed with the award-winning architect Marina Tabessam,

whose work plays with ideas of light, place and culture,

and the colourful canopy, which features in many South Asian festivities,

the Shamiana, still remains in her creative imagination.

So my memory of being in a shamiana is my uncle's wedding. Shamiana

basically covered temporary spaces which are created with bamboo structures and then fabric as a roof.

You see this beautiful light coming through this gorgeous, colorful fabric of this pavilion.

And that memory sort of is always there, the back of your mind.

And even till date, you know, if you go to the villages, you'll still see that gorgeous shamianas being used for weddings

and also for religious gatherings.

And so I wanted to bring that culture to London and the park.

Marina Tabasam's architecture practice is based in Bangladesh,

and she was included in Time magazine's list of the 100 most influential people in 2024.

That park Marina's brought her creativity to is London's Kensington Gardens.

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