Developing ‘critical & experiential pedagogy’ in teaching-learning contexts

Practice-based studies of the generative potential of ‘pluralism’ and ‘difference-making’ as the basis of teaching-learning practice.

 Research modalities

• Community-based curatorial practice
• Primary research on critical and engaged pedagogies
• Public lectures

Unpublished Research

Teaching Islam through historical and ethnographic refusals,
Simon Fraser University, Centre for Comparative Muslim Studies, Vancouver, Canada
(November 22, 2019).

Selected Curated Community-Engagement Projects and Exhibitions

Curator, Memories of Stone: Landscapes of Prayer, Death and Commemoration in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Site-specific exhibition of texts, textile art and photographs, Ismaili Centre Toronto, Toronto, Canada
(February 10-April 23, 2017).

Transformations: Enlightenment in a Digital Age.
A series of four site-specific contemporary art installations, Ismaili Centre Toronto, Toronto, Canada
(September 1-December 31, 2016).

Connect, Create, Cairo: Build a City with History & Technology.
Ismaili Centre Toronto, Canada
(November 15- February 28, 2014-2015);
Ismaili Centre Vancouver, Vancouver, Canada
(January 16-24, 2016).

Collaborative Research Projects

Yellow Line: A collaborative ethnographic research project focused on the visual and multi-sensory study of a select group of metro stations on the Lisbon Metro’s Yellow Line aimed at the study of the historical and contemporary production of urban public spaces and infrastructures. Yellow Line invites student-researchers to explore, document and analyze urban public spaces using a range of research methods and analytical frameworks from anthropology, particularly visual and sensory anthropology, geography, art history and practice, literary studies, architecture, and urban planning. Knowledge dissemination activities for this project are funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council for Canada (SSHRC Exchange – KMb Grant).