Dr. Ameera Kawash is an artist who reimagines technology as a medium for resilience, storytelling, and justice. She works with databases as living archives, developing new frameworks to preserve, decolonise, and safeguard cultural memory.
Ameera is co-founder of Ark Knowledge Networks, a company developing AI for low-resource languages and at-risk archives. She is also co-founder of Future Botanic, which creates the cultural layer for sustainable infrastructures by transforming environmental data into immersive, speculative ecosystems.
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.
Ameera is the creator of Tatreez Garden, an AI-powered artistic archive blending Palestinian embroidery, cultural heritage, and advocacy.