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Ameera Kawash

Dr. Ameera Kawash is an artist, creative technologist, researcher, and startup founder whose work explores speculative AI futures, decolonial innovation, and place-based approaches to sustainability. With expertise in visual generative AI pipelines and open-source workflows, she critically and creatively engages with these technologies to envision more sustainable and culturally resilient futures.

She holds a PhD from the Royal College of Art, where her research examined how artists can creatively retool dominant technologies through transformative frameworks of agency, post-monetary value, and co-vulnerability.

Recognised with prizes from Ars Electronica, the Terra Carta Award, and an Innovate UK Grant, her work has been showcased at Stanford University, the London Design Festival, and the Dubai Design Festival, among others.

Ameera has delivered talks and presentations at WorkTech, the Photo Ethics Centre, and 7amleh, contributing to global conversations on technology, ethics, and social justice. She was featured as a guest on Al Jazeera’s The Stream, discussing the ethics of generative AI in relation to colonial violence and erasure. Her writing has appeared in Al Jazeera and +972 Magazine, where she explores AI ethics, artistic agency, and digital justice.

Beyond her creative practice, Ameera provides consultancy services on ethical AI integration, human rights approaches to technology, and responsible innovation, addressing critical challenges at the intersection of technology, creativity, and equity.

Ameera is also the creator of Tatreez Garden, an AI-powered platform blending Palestinian embroidery, cultural heritage, and advocacy.

Select Exhibitions / Showings

  • Democracy, Art, & Textiles | Standford Department of Art History
    November 5, 2024 
  • London Design Festival| London
    September 21-22, 2024 
  • Ars Electronica Festival | Vienna
    September 4-8, 2024 
  • Dubai Design Week | Dubai
    Nov 7-12, 2023
  • Kyoto Smart City Expo | Kyoto
    Presentation – Oct 5, 2023
  • BBC Coronation Concert | Windsor
    May 7, 2023

Select Awards

  • S+T+ARTS Prize Africa 2024
    “Black Body Radiation: Rescripting Data Bodies,” a collaborative work with artist Ama BE, selected for an award of distinction
  • Creative Catalyst Grant 2023
    Orbital Bloom is a recipient of Innovate UK’s “Creative Catalyst” grant
  • Terra Carta Design Lab 2022
    Received an honorable mention for “Orbital Bloom” by the Terra Carta Design Lab, launched by King Charles’ Sustainable Markets Initiative