Dr Ameera Kawash is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and startup founder. 

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She earned a PhD from the Royal College of Art in 2022.  Her thesis focused on how artists can radically retool existing technologies as an artistic and social practice.

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Currently, she is exploring painting and pattern-making in relation to diasporic identity. She is also researching generative AI in popular culture and its impact on Palestinian narratives and representation.

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Her digital work spans examining repressive and discriminatory tech and creating place-based and localised approaches to sustainability.

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Her articles have been published in Al Jazeera, The New Arab, and +972 among others.

She is a co-founder of Orbital Bloom, a startup at the intersection of art and sustainability.  Orbital Bloom was a Terra Carta Design Lab finalist and a recipient of an Innovate UK grant. 

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She is Palestinian-Iraqi-American and based in the UK. 

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email: ameera.kawash@network.rca.ac.uk

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