Architect Mohammed Rezwan works at the intersection of climate adaptation, public-interest design, and education in Bangladesh’s flood-prone regions. Over the past 24 years, he has developed, expanded, and sustained a system of solar-powered floating schools, libraries, training centers, clinics, and farms that serve as mobile civic infrastructure during seasonal floods. He is the founder and executive director of Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangstha.
Drawing on architectural training, vernacular boat-building traditions, modular construction, and renewable energy systems, he designs flood-ready, multi-use learning and civic spaces that travel to communities cut off by water. He also develops graphics and learning materials for distance-learning tutorials and animated handouts, making curricula easier for learners in remote communities to understand.
Rezwan has served on international advisory committees focused on education, technology, and the environment, and regularly presents at global conferences on innovation, climate change, green energy, and education. He has delivered keynote speeches at the 10th Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning (PCF10) in Calgary, the 5th annual International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies (EDULEARN13) in Barcelona, and the 2015 Rotary District 5330 Conference in Cathedral City.
In 2019, he was recognized as one of the 20 Earth Heroes of the world by the British book “Earth Heroes.” His floating school design was exhibited at the “Design with the Other 90%” exhibitions organized by the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in the United States, and showcased at the “Bengal Stream” architectural exhibition in Switzerland and France.
In 2025, Rezwan achieved a “four-fold validation” across leadership, architecture, education, and climate resilience through the Yale World Fellowship, the Ammodo Architecture Award, the UNESCO Confucius Prize, and a General Assembly Official Citation from the State of Connecticut. He has also received the Global Love of Lives Awards 2024 and the Curry Stone Design Prize’s Social Design Circle Honoree 2017.
He is an alumnus of the U.S. Department of State’s International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP), a Fellow of The Royal Society of Arts (RSA), an Honorary Fellow of The Commonwealth of Learning, a Trumbull College Fellow at Yale University, and a Yale World Fellow. He has delivered guest lectures at Yale University and Columbia University.
