About

Exhibitions

‘Out of the Box’ Ars Electronica Festival (AT)
‘Bauhaus Recoded’ Tate Britain (UK)
‘Prototypes In Public’ Samsung KX (UK)
‘Brainpower’ UCL Neuroscience Festival (UK)
NIGHT\SHIFT Place-hacking Festival (CA)
Toronto’s Gallery 1313 (CA)

CLIENTS

Colliers International
Siemens
Dream Unlimited
Bentall-Kennedy
City of Barrie
FIMA Development
Mantella Corporation
Contessa Developments
First Gulf Development
QuadReal Property Group
Suncor
All-Canadian Self-Storage
Beth Sholom Synagogue
Ontario Association of Landscape Architects

I am a recent graduate of the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, and an alumni member of the Interactive Architecture Lab. I am passionate about the intersection of art, architecture and technology in redefining the current age of spacio-temporal experience and paving new modes of seeing the world and connecting people. Growing up experiencing different socio-spatial sides of the globe, in Egypt, UAE, Canada, Austria and the UK, shaped my perception of the built environment as both formative and fragmental to hybrid identities, culturally manifest stories and collective memory, via spatial cognition and somatosensory agency.

The foundation of my career began in my pursuit of the Bachelor of Landscape Architecture professional honours program, focusing my thesis work on the capacity of connecting the public to their land’s natural resources through land-use design and programming, and influencing geo-politically associative ideas of collective ownership. Several years later, this thought evolved into ongoing research that inspired the pursuit of my graduate studies in the Master in Architecture (M.Arch.) Design for Performance and Interaction program. My work focused on the reciprocal performative agency of dichotomous natural-artificial environments with humans and the role of motion-based mechatronic spatial artefacts in rekindling fading perceptual nuances of nature in the urban sphere. My research journey led to the publication of my graduate thesis, Constructing Liveliness: the Experience of Nature Embodiment In Kinetic Architecture, and completion of my graduate project In Rhythmic Fragments. 

I hold over a seven-year span of professional consultancy experience in urban design, master planning, project strategy, public consultation, place-making, and open space design. Recently, I have been working with Philip Beesley Architect and the Living Architecture Systems Group on the design of the Venetian Arsenal installation at the 2020 Venice Architecture Biennale, ‘Grove Nebula’, and with artists Ruairi Glynn, Vasilija Abramovic and Parker Heyl on the Montenegrin pavilion installation at the Biennale, ‘Syntony’.

As a lead associate of Popovich Associates in the Toronto Area, I worked on local and international projects of multiple scales and public, commercial, retail, institutional, industrial and residential domains, from initial concept and design development to project execution and closeout. My insight of practice was grounded in research, data visualization, and analysis for client brand, cultural identity and context-focused design integration. My role evolved from Landscape Architectural and Urban Designer to Landscape Architect and Project Strategist of Design and Communication, taking on responsibilities in project contract initiation, client engagement, proposal writing, project management and team role management, firm identity and communication strategy. In 2020, I founded Radials, a design consultancy studio specialized in producing tailored and mesmeric spatial experiences with artefacts of motion, light and interactive tech, with co-founding partner Saria Ghaziri.

I am a contributor and editorial board member of GROUND Landscape Architect Quarterly, and have worked on published editorials covering subjects in: temporary and pop-up art in cities, digital data collection in green city building, the housing crisis experience for marginalized citizens and exclusion in the public sphere, community land trusts, role of soundscapes and audio art in designed environments, dialectic/metaphorical/literal territories of waste. 

I am open to full-time/part-time permanent, remote or contract-based work. For enquiries, commissions or collaborations, you can reach me by e-mail here or through the contact form here.