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Sharmeen Sayed Dafedar, SMArchS - MIT (she/her/hers)

PhD Student
Azrieli School of Architecture & Urbanism, Canada

Sharmeen Sayed Dafedar is a PhD student at Carleton University in Ottawa and an architect from Mumbai, India. Her research delves into the intersection of traditional architecture and cultural crafts in Kashmir, focusing on how urban environments and cultural productions interact and evolve in contemporary contexts.

With a diverse professional background, Sharmeen has worked as an architect in Mumbai and as an architectural designer in New York. Her passion for academia is reflected in her roles as an instructor for a Community Engagement design studio at Carleton University and as a visiting faculty member in the Bachelor of Architecture program at Mumbai University.

Sharmeen's multifaceted career and artistic pursuits highlight her deep commitment to preserving and understanding cultural practices within local communities. Beyond architecture, she expresses her creativity through the culinary arts and exploring the history of Indian street food. Additionally, she has a fascination for the representation of architecture in science fiction and other works of fiction, having taught courses on this subject in Mumbai. She holds a B.Arch from University of Mumbai (2014) and a Masters of Science in Architecture Studies degree from MIT from the Aga Khan Program in Islamic architecture (2019).

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