Projects (select)
- Co-founder, board member @ SHEEEPschool. https://sheeep.school/
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Co-curator (with Aziza Chaouni), editor, researcher, writer. “Modern West Africa: Recorded.” Short film at La Biennale de Venezia - Curator’s Special Project, Guests from the Future, 2023. For Aziza Chaouni Projects.
- Research Partnership, ‘Locating Colonial and Racist Spaces in “Canada.” 221A (Vancouver)- Principal Investigator: - a participatory mapping project (with the Architecture Lobby Tkaronto) 2020- 2023.
- Project manager, researcher. Centre International du Commerce Extérieur de Dakar (Getty Conservation Institute “Keeping it Modern” grant). For Aziza Chaouni Projects. 2021 - 2023.
- Project manager, researcher. Sidi Harazem Thermal Bath Complex (Getty Conservation Institute “Keeping it Modern” grant). 2019 - 2023 For Aziza Chaouni Projects.
- Project manager, designer. Joudour Sahara Cultural Centre. 2019 - 2022. For Aziza Chaouni Projects.
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Project manager, researcher. Old Fourah Bay College (World Monuments Fund). For Aziza Chaouni Projects. 2022.
- Project manager, The Future of Ontario Place Project. For Aziza Chaouni/ University of Toronto (2020-21).
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Viva Voce: An Election Procession. Short film. 2020. View at dsko.earth.
- Designer/ coordinator, Waiting Wombs Trust Rescue centre for women with fertility issues. Feasibility Study and Fundraising Initiative; Nairobi, Kenya (2018-19).
- Various private commissions and single-family residential projects.
Awards
- Institut du Monde Arabe (Arab World Institute Design) Impact Award - Affordable Anti-Seismic Prototype House, 2024. Schematic design (pro-bono) for Aziza Chaouni Projects, with Ines Smouni.
- LafargeHolcim Award for Sustainable Construction Global Bronze Prize (project author with Aziza Chaouni Projects)- Joudour Sahara Cultural Centre, 2021.
- LafargeHolcim Award for Sustainable Construction Middle East + Africa Acknowledgement Prize (project author with Aziza Chaouni Projects)- Joudour Sahara Cultural Centre, 2021.
- Abraham Rogatnick Book Prize, 2019.
- Canadian Architect Student Award of Excellence (nomination), 2019.
- Blank Space’s Outer Space Competition Honourable Mention, 2019.
- UBC Faculty Project Selections 2016-19.
Grants
- $100,000 CAD - Canada Council for the Arts “Digital Now” Grant for countermap.land. With ARCCA (Artist-Run Centres and Collectives Conference), 221A. For The Architecture Lobby’s Tkaronto Chapter. 2021.
- $180,000 USD- Getty Conservation Institute “Keeping it Modern” Grant for Centre International du Commerce Extérieur de Dakar. With Aziza Chaouni Projects. 2020.
Organizing
- Steering committee, Ontario Place for All, 2023- present.
- Research and Education Coordinator, , The Architecture Lobby Tkaronto (TAL-TO) , 2021-22.
- Founding member and chapter co-steward, The Architecture Lobby Tkaronto (TAL-TO) , 2020.
- Outreach coordinator, For a Feminist Architecture (FaFa). 2018-19.
Positions
- Member, Africa Alliance at Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning.
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Director, *countermap.
- Sessional lecturer, John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design.
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Sessional lecturer, OCADU Faculty of Design.
- Consultant, Aziza Chaouni Projects, 2023- 24.
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Associate, Aziza Chaouni Projects, 2020- 2023.
- Architectural Designer, Aziza Chaouni Projects, 2019-20.
- Architectural designer, Measured Architecture Inc., 2017-19.
- Graduate teaching assistant (Measured Architectural Drafting), The University of British Columbia, 2019.
- Architectural Designer, Van Elslander and Associates Architects, 2016-17.
- Financial coordinator, Ryerson Artspace at the Gladstone 2015-16.
Exhibitions + Curation
- Exhibition Designer. Sidi Harazem Thermal Bath Station Exhibition (for Getty Conservation Institute) (stalled due to COVID-19). Sidi Harazem, Morocco. For Aziza Chaouni Projects.
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Lead Curator and Exhibition Designer. SALON19, (2019). DUDOC, Vancouver.
- Project Designer. Restock (Central Bar at Interior Design Show West), (2019). A bar constructed from the salvaged remains of a Vancouver special, for Measured Architecture Inc.
- Guest Curator. Unfolding Landscape, (2019). Patron Art House, Vancouver.
- Project Feature. Gaining Altitude, (2019). Livingspace Interiors, Vancouver
- Project selection, Ryerson University Year End Show, (2014-16). Paul H. Cocker Gallery, Toronto.
Publications
Published
- Author, “Architecture Falls Silent” Essay in Call to Arms: Art, Activism and the Neoliberal Age. E-book, Peripheral Review. Upcoming.
- Co-author (with Andi Argast, Nicholas House, Sam Young, Rithikha Rajamohan) and designer, “Networked Cooperative Ecosystems: New Labour Configurations & Opportunities for Mutualism.” Essay for V6A Labs, 2024.
- Co-editor, graphic designer; “Keeping it Modern: Modern Heritage Under Pressure. Perspectives from the Global South.” Ebook, University of Toronto Press. 2023.
- Conservation Management Plan for Centre International du Commerce Extérieur de Dakar (Senegal). For The Getty Conservation Institute. 2022.
- Conservation Management Plan for Old Fourah Bay College (Freetown, Sierra Leone). For World Monuments Fund. 2022.
- Co-author, C-A-L-L + R-E-S-P-O-N-S-E: A participatory column by the Architecture Lobby’s Toronto Chapter for Azure Magazine- exploring definitions of public interest in the architectural field, (2021). Links: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
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Research, writing (with Sarah Labahn) and publication design, Beyond
Two-Persons Per Room: Understanding the Cultural Variances of
Housing Suitability in Canada. For BC Housing, (2018). -
Co-founder and designer (with Alena Pavan), Fa ( A Feminist
Architecture Zine), (2018-19).
Talks/ Panels/ Workshops
- Guest lecturer, “People Archives,” The University of Toronto, 2024.
- Guest lecturer, “*countermap,” The University of Toronto, 2024.
- Workshop co-facilitator with Dana Prieto, “GROUND WORK,” SHEEEPschool, 2024.
- Guest lecturer, “Design for the 99%; Conservation through collaboration,” John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design, 2023.
- Speaker, “Reconciling memories: transcultural dialogue in Africa,” University College of Turin, 2023.
- Guest lecturer, panelist, “Developing micro-public spaces in the medina of Fez,” University of Toronto, 2023.
- Speaker, “On Hybrid Practice,” Intima2 (online) 2023.
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Guest lecture “Countermapping,” Azrieli School of Architecture, Cartleton University, 2022.
- Speaker, “Reviving the Sidi Harazem Thermal Bath Complex”, Congress of Thermal Tourism, Oursense, Spain, 2022.
- Panelist, “Tangents” University of British Columbia School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, 2021.
- Speaker, Christina Battle: Connecting Thru Grasses @ Mackenzie Art Gallery, 2021.
- Speaker with Kareem Obey, “Deep City: Climate, Crisis, Democracy, and the Digital,” EPFL, 2021.
- Speaker, Toronto Room Journal Launch. 2019.
Guest Critic
- Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan Ann-Arbor.
- School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA), Univeristy of British Columbia
- John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, University of Toronto.
- Department of Architectural Science, Toronto Metropolitan University.
- School of Architecture, Waterloo University.
Education
- PhD student, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan Ann-Arbor, 2024- 2029 (anticipated).
- Master of Architecture (honours), School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at The University of British Columbia, 2017-19.
- Bachelor of Architectural Science (honours), Toronto Metropolitan University, 2012-16.