Shehrazade Mahassini
is an architect, researcher and educator. After her studies at the Bauhaus University Weimar, she worked in Cologne, Berlin, London, and Zurich. In 2022, she founded studio:institute, a practice that includes critical and transdisciplinary research where the intersectional lens on the built environment helps explore new typologies—between representation, negotiation, and appropriation. Parallel to her practice, Shehrazade is a PhD candidate at the Royal College of Art in London. Embedded in post/colonial studies, Arab and Afro-feminism, her research aims to create a new narrative and questions the historicity of space production in former colonies and how it relates to segregated urban spaces in contemporary Western society. Most recently, she has taught at École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne – EPFL.