Zain Abuseir

Zain AbuSeir is a designer and educator.  During her time at Michigan she was awarded the Willeke Portfolio Competition Honor Award and Raoul Wallenberg Certificate for her Bachelors of Science Thesis Project entitled “Coded Space” among others. Her work explores the potentials of architectural methods of representation in spatializing scenes of charged and unsettled environments, negotiating the potentials offered by speculative narratives and experimental visualizations. Her graduate thesis project, “a|rch|natomizing Somalia”, has been published in Zawia, Ground Up, Atlantis, and Dimensions. Zain earned a bachelor of science in architecture and a master of architecture from the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning.