IEDAs | A Journal of Transdisciplinary Practices in Art & Design | Annual

Prof. Salima Hashmi

Prof. Salima Hashmi is an artist, curator and contemporary art historian. She was founding Dean at the Mariam Dawood School of Visual Arts and Design at Beaconhouse National University, Lahore in 2003. She taught at the National College of Arts, Lahore, for 30 years and was the Principal of the College for 4 years.

She is the recipient of multiple awards including the President's Medal for Pride of Performance for Art Education, the Sughra Rababi Lifetime Achievement Award and a Lifetime Achievement Award at the LLF. The Australian Council of Art and Design Schools nominated her Inaugural International Fellow in 2011, and in the same year she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Bath Spa University, UK.

Mr. Justin Cook

Justin W. Cook is the Founding Executive Director of the Center for Complexity at Rhode Island School of Design and Design Critic at Harvard's Graduate School of Design. His work focuses on developing novel organizational architectures to address systemic challenges in healthcare, sustainability, and education. Previously, he spent a decade as Senior Lead for Strategy at the Finnish Innovation Fund, Sitra, advancing strategic design for social impact.

Dr. Anzar Khaliq

Dr. Anzar Khaliq is the founding Chief Learning Officer at San Francisco Bay University, leading the Center for Empowerment and Pedagogical Innovation. With a PhD in Experimental Physics from Sorbonne, he specializes in design thinking, transdisciplinary education, and AI-driven educational innovations. He has held key leadership roles in innovative academic programs and was a founding faculty member of Habib University, where he founded Pakistan's first design research lab.

Dr. Ijlal Muzaffar

Dr. Ijlal Muzaffar is Professor of Architectural History at the Rhode Island School of Design, in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. He is the author of Modernism's Magic Hat: Architecture and the Illusion of Development without Capital (University of Texas Press, 2024) and the co-editor of the volume Architecture in Development Systems and the Emergence of the Global South (Routledge, 2022). His work has been published widely in academic journals, museum and biennale catalogues and edited volumes.

Dr. Faisal Khan

Dr Faisal Khan is a neo-biologist leading an interdisciplinary research lab that works at the intersection of biology, data, medicine and the humanities. His Lab is spearheading precision medicine and synthetic biology research in Pakistan as well as in emerging areas including digital health, space biology, bioart and the bioeconomy. Dr Khan won several awards and honors for his Masters and DPhil at the University of Oxford.

Dr. Rabia Kamal

Dr. Rabia Kamal is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the Mushtaq Ahmad Gurmani School of Humanities and Social Sciences (MGSHSS). She completed her Ph.D. in cultural anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania and has previously served as a faculty member in the Anthropology department at the University of San Francisco. Her research brings together scholarship on cultural and visual anthropology, digital technologies and surveillance, and racialization and gender politics in South Asia and the United States. She teaches courses on the anthropology of social media, decolonizing feminism, and qualitative research methods. Her current research project is a multi-sited ethnography located at the nexus of social media and social justice in urban Pakistan.

Rohma Khan is a multi-disciplinary artist, educator, researcher, Associate Professor, and Program Head- IEDA (Interdisciplinary Expanded Design and Art) at the SVAD, BNU. Rohma has had affiliations with local and international institutions, development-sector organizations and advertising industry, spanning across disciplines with areas of investigation ranging from deep-historical to abstract futuristic ideas, artifacts and practices.

Durre Shehwar

Durre is a multidisciplinary designer-educator interested in design politics, neocolonialism, and frictionless solutionism. Trained first as an Industrial Designer, she holds a Design Research degree from Bern University of the Arts, Switzerland. A member of the International Social Design Network, she contributes to global design discourse across conferences, workshops, and publications. Her three forthcoming Bloomsbury publications: one on gatekeeping in design academia; another on everyday objects seeping into sacred and political registers; and a third — an inward critique of the prototypical pedagogue, written by someone education failed first and hired later, once told to do 'something' gentler, now practising the 'thing' itself.

Ibrahim Tanweer

Ibrahim Tanweer is a critical and creative writer and cultural industries educator. His work and research is related to the political economies of the various fields of cultural production as well as the visual, aesthetic, and political issues of representation. His writing has appeared in Dunya Digital, Border Movement, The Aleph Review, Lakeer Magazine among others. Ibrahim has also worked as an independent music critic and has served as managing editor for The Lost Aux, a Pakistani music content publication.Ibrahim completed his Master of Arts degree in the Global Creative and Cultural Industries programme at SOAS, University of London.

Aarish Sardar

Aarish Sardar is a design educator & an interdisciplinary creative practitioner, and the Head-VCD (Visual Communication Design) at MDSVAD, BNU. With an MA from Kingston University London (2006), Aarish has worked as a communication designer & a multimedia consultant with clientele internationally from the USA, UK to Pakistan and beyond. He has exhibited his interdisciplinary works in various group shows within and outside of Pakistan. Aarish also writes about arts and culture for The Dawn and The News on Sunday, The Karachi Collective, Friday Times, The Iconica Magazine in Pakistan, and Arte Morbida.

Zahra Mirza

Zahra Mirza is an interdisciplinary artist, researcher, and educator based in Pakistan and Austria currently teaching at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. She initiated and managed project Artversation, facilitating interdisciplinary projects, research, and discourse at the intersection of arts, sciences, outside disciplines and curious technologies.

Madyha Leghari (Volume 01)

Madyha J. Leghari is a visual artist, writer and educator working between Lahore and Washington DC. She earned a BFA at the National College of Arts, Lahore (2013) and an MFA from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design (2018) through a Fulbright Scholarship. Her practice revolves around the possibilities and limitations of language, and is often positioned in the indeterminate spaces of translation, cultural friction, and semantic lacunae.