Dr. Ameera Kawash is an artist, writer, and critical technologist focused on reimagining systems that stay rooted in place, community, and lived experience. Her work treats databases as embodied archives, developing new frameworks informed by social, political, and environmental contexts and consequences. She is interested in how digital humanities can redirect tech R&D across both industry and community-oriented projects.
She is the co-founder of Ark Knowledge Networks, which develops AI for low-resource languages and at-risk archives, and Future Botanic, which creates the cultural layer for sustainable infrastructures by transforming environmental data into immersive artworks.
Ameera holds a PhD from the Royal College of Art, where her research explored how artists can creatively retool dominant technologies through frameworks of agency, value, and co-vulnerability.
She has delivered talks and presentations on the ethics of AI and digital technologies at Oxford University, Mawred Thaqafy, WorkTech, and the Photo Ethics Centre, and has appeared on Al Jazeera’s The Stream.
Recognised with prizes from Ars Electronica, the Terra Carta Award, and an Innovate UK Grant, her work has been exhibited internationally, including at Stanford University, the London Design Festival, and the Dubai Design Festival.
To get in touch, please email: ameerakawash@network.rca.ac.uk
