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
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