Dear Constantinos is a fictional correspondence from my grandfather, a hobby analog photographer who obsessively photographed the city of Islamabad from the 1980's to early 2000's to Constantinos A. Doxiadis, the Greek urban planner who designed the capital of Pakistan, Islamabad and many other Global South cities, post- Cold War. My grandfather had captured these moments through his nuanced analog hobby photography in the early 1980's which was later utilized by my uncle for his tourism business, "Trans-Pakistan" in the mid 1990's. Due to the implications of the War on Terror, the company closed down and all that remains are unused, dusty marketing materials including the company's postcards. During this time, I am exploring speculative thinking/writing on political imaginations manifested or in its failure within the built environment; as relations between citizen-bodies and nation-states are unfolding contentiously.

— Umber Majeed