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Visual artist, architect, and researcher in arts and space, based in Tunis. She develops a transdisciplinary practice that combines sensory cartography, sound collection, poetic writing, and field research. She uses various artistic mediums, such as installation, drawing, and photography. Her work explores the links between popular oral tradition, collective memory, and lived spatiality, with a particular interest in the landscapes of southern Tunisia and vernacular forms of expression.
Her participatory practices include architectural experimentation in public spaces, construction with local communities, and an inclusive and feminist approach. She is particularly interested in sociocultural issues, contemporary identities and ideologies, and their impact on architecture and cities, seeking alternative possibilities for creative socio-spatial transformation. Her work takes the form of research, theoretical architectural projects, and sensitive urban cartography.