Zahra is the Founder and Principal of the architecture and design think tank, archiTEXT. Born in Kenya, raised in West Vancouver, and educated at McGill University in Montreal, Zahra has spent the last two years serving as Innovator in Residence at Canada’s National Design Museum, the Design Exchange.
Ebrahim brings together diverse groups to tackle the intersections of architecture and design with social change, the environment, politics, economics, equality, health, and pop culture. Using various methods ranging from curation to public engagement to conceptual art to engage a broad spectrum of the public in design discourse. As the youngest professor at the Ontario College of Art and Design (OCAD), she teaches in the Think Tank Program, getting the next generation of designers asking complex questions of themselves and the world around them. She is also the co-lead on the Community. Design. Initiative. a legacy project engaging some of Canada’s most marginalized youth in architecture and design in Toronto’s priority neighborhoods.
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