Zahra is a designer-researcher from Pakistan whose practice explores how spaces hold memory, grief, and belonging. Their work moves between architecture, curation, and poetry, using narrative and material memory to shape environments that honour absence, nurture healing, and affirm identity. They enjoy working with time as a material in spatial design and how seasons, cycles, and gestures of impermanence can be used to create environments that shift with light, weather, and the body’s presence.

Rooted in queer and diasporic perspectives, they like to use their work to challenge dominant ways of thinking about space by centering care, inclusivity, and affect. Whether through grief-based design or curatorial strategies for QTBIPOC visibility, they create spaces that breathe, shift with time, hold memory and celebrate difference.