Experience

Karachi Biennale Trust

• Pakistan
• Artists and Writers
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Executive Assistant

  • Dec 2021 - Jan 2023

  Logistical and Administrative Management level:1- Arranging meetings with senior external stakeholders and internal colleagues.2- Managing the Chief Executive’s official correspondence (electronic and post).3- Ensuring all communications are timely and support trust’s reputation, sourcing information and commissioning of drafts and briefings from colleagues where necessary.4- Records management, ensuring correspondence and documentation is filed, archived or deleted/shredded as appropriate, and stakeholder engagement records and tracking of meetings are overseen and updated.Stakeholder and Relationship Management level:1- Develop understanding of the wider context of the Karachi Biennale’s work and varying priorities, in order to ensure the smooth and efficient management of the flow of information, briefs and correspondence.2- Represent the Chief Executive as a professional and approachable first point of contact.Role specific knowledge and experience:1- Experience of minute-taking.2- A high level of discretion due to work with sensitive and confidential material.3- Communication skills – both verbal and written. Write clearly, in a style suited to purpose and with the needs of the reader in mind.4- Sound judgement and decision-making abilities in a highly ambiguous environment.Specific Assignments delivered:1- Social and electronic media report (SEM) for KB19 and KB17.2- Updating the master-guest list.3- Archiving video and image bank for KB17 and KB19.4- Overseeing interns during summer internships (assignments related to the Karachi Art Directory).5- Educational Programming KB22 report6- Looking after the insurances of the International Artists from UK. 7- Part of hiring team (the Chairman and Logistics manager) throughout for KB22 venue coordinators. (70 applications received, 40 shortlisted for interviews, 33 hired).8- Working as a close team member with the Discursive Programming coordinator for KB22 Discursive. Show less

• Critical Knowledge Laboratory Support KB22

  • Oct 2022 - Dec 2022

  About the Critical Knowledge Lab: In the last two decades, art activity in Karachi has increased, making it a vibrant hub. It has been however felt that critical knowledge around art needs to keep up. To address this gap, KBT established the Critical Knowledge Lab (CKL) to discuss and document the knowledge that exists in the practice, research and experiences of artists, social thinkers and cultural interventionists of our time. To trace how ideas evolve and converge across disciplines, CKL has held roundtables and seminars regularly since 2017. I am working as a support for the CKL for KB22. During the Karachi Biennale 22, the two-day hybrid seminar was an attempt to map the Decolonisation process through art, curatorial and discursive interventions with a special focus on South Asia. Speakers from Japan and France spoke on how artists are complicating the official narrative within the former colonial powers. This expanded the discussion into considering the position of a diasporic artist from a former colony living in the ‘metropole’, and on his practice that has been giving visibility to the concerns of marginalized communities in Europe. One of the assignments at work for the final report on the discursive was to produce essays around the talks given by some of the artists. The essays I produced are focused on “Ruptured Histories: Critical Exchanges on Issues of Decolonisation”. The essays revolve around the talks given by: Sadia Abbas , Kader Attia , Giselle Beiguelman, Deepali Dewan, Ali Imam, Samina Iqbal, and Waheeda Baloch . Show less

• Educational Programming Coordinator (Acting)

  • Feb 2022 - Nov 2022

  The Educational Programming – art and tech workshops – commenced in October 2021 at primary and secondary schools. The workshops were designed to introduce the theme of the third Karachi Biennale, Art and Technology through hands-on projects. Over 500 primary students from diverse backgrounds participated in the STEAM inspired activities and created art with battery driven bots. The Educational Programming workshops and tours for Primary Schools is generously supported by National Foods Pvt. Limited. This was led by our educational programming coordinator Ms. Ammarah Salman. Due to personal reasons, she had to disengage in February 2022. It was this time when I was given the charge for Acting Educational Programming coordinator and I worked in this role since then. The project for the secondary schools was conceived by Ms. Salman and I executed it with three other team members Mr. Baqir Rizvi, Mr. Bhoora Lal and Mr. Darpan Lal. ‘Boltay Pathar’ workshops were held at four secondary schools between January and March 2022, to engage students in research on heritage sites and learn to create digital documentaries on them for their peers. 120 students enthusiastically participated from the following schools and documented the mentioned sites:a- Kiran Foundation DCTO Campus Lyari worked on Empress Market.b- Habib Public Boys School worked on Bagh Ibn-e-Qasim (near Clifton Beach).c- NJV Government Higher Secondary School worked on the historical building of NJV School.d- Khatoon-e-Pakistan worked on Quaid-e-Azam House Museum (Flagstaff House).The workshops in Secondary Schools were supported by UNESCO and Italian Agency for Development Cooperation (AICS). These wonderful educational resources can be seen on Karachi Biennale's official media pages (Facebook and Instagram). Show less



Pakistan-U.S. Alumni Network

• Pakistan
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Mentor

  • Sep 2020 - Nov 2020

  Each year, the Pakistan-U.S. Alumni Network (PUAN) organizes an annual PUAN Summer Internship Program, formerly called the PUAN Mentorship Program, through which 40 senior alumni from across Pakistan host 40 young alumni for a 12-week internship. As part of the internship, participating senior alumni act as mentors and provide substantive assignments and guidance to interns to foster their professional growth. In return, young alumni work full-time for three months. In year 2020, the cycle for internships started from September 1 to November 30, 2020. For the first time since its inception in 2012, 2020’s program was offered online only due to the risks posed by COVID-19. My mentee was a civil engineer from BUITEMS (Quetta) Mr. Faisal Kakkar and an alumnus of Minnesota State University – Mankato, USA. We worked on several diverse tasks and around the themes of climate change, architecture, urban planning. Mr. Kakkar is now serving as a Civil Servant. Show less



Indus University

• Education Administration Programs
• 1 - 100 Employee

• University Lecturer

  • Jan 2015 - Dec 2017

  In the six semesters duration I was entrusted to teach the subjects like: Research and Development, Lighting, Studio (office design), Introduction to Interior Design, Visualization- I (AutoCAD) and History of Architecture I & II. Apart from the teaching, I was also engaged with and supervising our students in multiple extracurricular events and activities (expos, field trips, exhibitions, displays). I was also a student counseling committee member, dealing with different attitudes of students, successfully. I was also ushering in our departmental magazine (proposal was under review by concerned). Other than academic engagements, I also represented my Department as a Faculty member at multiple platforms like seminars, webinars and workshops. Earlier supervised students arrange their displays at Avari towers, organized a guest speaker session with Kansai Paints. My last task involved revising patterns for daily activity reports and self-assessment report for quality enhancement cell (QEC). Show less



3DSI

• United Kingdom

• Architecture Consultant

  • Jan 2014 - Dec 2014

  This job was about photogrammetry, and involved 3D visualization of as built buildings and making their 3D records and providing suggestions for further expansions. Each space was meant to be visualized and simulated using several many pictures of as built structures individually and then integrating them as a whole. All the projects that I did were US based (Californian) and included a Jail’s hospital (Concord Jail), an educational building (Placerville’s EDCOE) and residential Building (Building 64). Show less



Arch Vision Plus

• Pakistan
• Architecture and Planning
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Architectural Intern

  • Mar 2014 - Jul 2014

  Joined as an Intern Architect, I was involved in drafting, manual design, interior layout, elevation details, and working drawings of small residential units. I also individually proposed a mosque for a warehouse in SITE area in Karachi (both planning and designing). Other than this I also made sketches depicting sea front life for an iconic urban project in Karachi named as Crescent Bay. The sketches were made part of a presentation given to the Chief Minister Sindh then. Joined as an Intern Architect, I was involved in drafting, manual design, interior layout, elevation details, and working drawings of small residential units. I also individually proposed a mosque for a warehouse in SITE area in Karachi (both planning and designing). Other than this I also made sketches depicting sea front life for an iconic urban project in Karachi named as Crescent Bay. The sketches were made part of a presentation given to the Chief Minister Sindh then.



National Engineering Services Pakistan (Pvt) Limited (NESPAK)

• Pakistan
• Construction
• 700 & Above Employee

• Architectural Intern

  • Jun 2010 - Jul 2010

  Planned and designed a mosque in Sialkot for Benazir Bhutto International Airport under supervision of Architect Imran Ahmad Khan (Head Airport section). Planned and designed a mosque in Sialkot for Benazir Bhutto International Airport under supervision of Architect Imran Ahmad Khan (Head Airport section).