→ Yara Sharif and Nasser Golzari

Yara Sharif and Nasser Golzari are practising architects and academics. They interrogate through their work the interlink between architecture, politics, ecology, and social justice. While they question and critique ecological inequalities, they reconstruct through design new social narratives and alternative architectural practices that challenge the Western dominant approach, calling for new aesthetics inspired by the Global South. Sharif and Golzari’s collaborative research and live projects have been nominated and have won several awards including the 2013 Aga Khan Award, 2014 Holcim Award for Sustainable Construction, RIBA President’s Award for Research 2013 and 2016, and the Civic Trust Award. They have curated several exhibitions globally including Secrets of a Digital Garden as part of the Chicago Architecture Biennial in 2019 and Berlinale in 2020 in collaboration with Riwaq. Their recent installation as part of Instant Modernism is currently on display at the Qattan Foundation. They co-founded Palestine Regeneration Team (PART), a design-led research group that aims through speculative and live design projects to search for creative and responsive spatial possibilities.