Sharmeen Inayat




Recent Work

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Living Continuity research exhibition at the Old Jubail Fruit and Vegetable Market, February-May 2023. 

Urban expansion and renewal yields disproportionate access to and distribution of environmental rights, urban commons, social health and mobility. The tension between renewal vs expansion creates conditions of hyper-precarity and raises questions on how to secure lived continuity. How can interlocutors, respondents and residents facilitate and advocate for inclusive, decolonial and sensitized discourses around urban policy and education given limitations of civic participation? This line of inquiry will continue to be explored through developing toolkits to enable knowledge exchange. We will reflect on how to broaden our understanding of people-centred approaches through insights on interdependence, plurality and spatial practices. 

pictured: 1. collaboration with Marcos Parga, 2. Yasser Elsheshtawy, 3. Paulina Yeal Cho, 4. Kit-of-Parts, 5. Readings, 6. Bhoomika Ghaghada, 7. 8. 9. collaboration with Beatriz ItzelCruz-Megchun, 10. Ailo Ribas, 11. Glossary, 12. 13. 14. Library.  

Visit www.sharjaharchitecture.org/research for further reading and full list of contributors.

Photos courtesy Danko Stjepanovic






Sharmeen Inayat

Msc. International Development
B.Arch.
sharmeeninayat@gmail.com ; @sharmeen_inayat


Bio


Sharmeen Inayat is a researcher and cultural worker invested in situating cultural production as a collective response to socio-political contexts and urgencies. She is broadly interested in decoloniality, South-South relational paradigms and transnational feminist theory and practice. Currently, she is engaged in research curation at the Sharjah Architecture Triennial Foundation, a platform for architecture and urbanism in a region that extends from South to West Asia and the African Continent, where she has launched and leads the SAT Research Initiative committed to hold space for critical discourse on spatial justice and spatial governance through trans-medium publications, knowledge exchange and participative public programming. Among other previous engagements, Sharmeen has worked with Visualising Palestine for their campaign on the power of BDS movements; and the Sharjah Art Foundation on the team for the Mureijah Art Spaces which was shortlisted for the Aga Khan Award for Architecture. Her independent research is focused on feminist practices that reveal and resist conformed relations of environmental rights and migrant precarity.



Praxis

Select work is listed below and most listings contain links for more information, when available, on organizations, projects and collaborators or [notable highlights / citations].


2024_Feminist Embodiment in Public Spaces, workshop at Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León.
2023_Urban Transformations in Asia, workshop at Global Asia Initiative, New York University Abu Dhabi.

2021– current_Research Curator, SAT Research Initiative, Sharjah Architecture Triennial Foundation.
2023_Research and Urban Advisor, organized public activations for SAT 02, The Beauty of Impermanence: an architecture of adaptability. [1.
Mourning in the Concrete Tent by DAAR; 2. Vigil for Gaza by Yara Sharif and Naser Golzari; 3. Osagbaye, Emmanuel Balogun, Natisa Kasongo and Pascal Beugre-Tellier assembled by Bubu Ogisi.]
2018–2021_Research and Strategy Consultant, mapped a multiscalar contextual framework and mission for the institution, Sharjah Architecture Triennial.
2018_Influence, Migration and Tautology, exhibition and public program, Hello World, Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum for Contemporary Art, Berlin.
2017–2018_Researcher and Visual Brief Writer, developed infographic campaigns on BDS movements for Visualizing Palestine.
2017_Editor, Uncommon Dubai+ people-place-narrative, Ta Xbiex, Malta: Uncommon Ltd. [1. Monocle ‘Priority Viewing; 2. Photo essay by Alex Atack].
2017_ Ghettoization and Diplacement: a case of the International [Neoliberal] City, Cities Exhibition, Imminent Commons, Seoul Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism.
2015_Researcher, Ralph Appelbaum Associates.
2015_Revolt of the Monkeys, community engagement and exhibition at Mithila Akhara Bhavan, Ayodhya.
2015_A Feminist Geneology of Resistance in the Antilles, exhibition, The Social Life of Art, Bétonsalon - centre d'art et de recherche.

2015_Art Director, Uncommon Alger, Ta Xbiex, Malta: Uncommon Ltd.
2014_Radical Hospitality: episodes of transgression and impossibilities, exhibition and residency, A.i.R.
2010–2013_Design Architect, conducted urban research and developed concept design for Mureijah Art Spaces, Sharjah Art Foundation. [1. Universes in Universe Art Destination; 2. Aga Khan Award for Architecture].
2011–2013_Researcher and Production Architect for urban interventions and activations for Sharjah Biennial 11: Re:emerge [1. SUPERFLEX, The Bank; 2. CAMP, From Gulf to Gulf to Gulf].
2010–2011_Production Architect, Sharjah Biennial 10: Plot for a biennial [1. Judith Barry, Cairo Stories].
2010_Apprentice Architect, Navarra Office of Walking Architecture.