Hira Rasool is an architect, educator, and researcher from Karachi, Pakistan, currently based in Germany. Through her place- and practice-led research, she observes land-water-human relationships along the sacred geography of Sindh and Sindhu Darya, or the River Indus in Pakistan. Addressing the poetics and politics of critical landscapes, her spatial practice draws from situated knowledge traditions to ground making processes and pedagogies in place.
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Rasool recently graduated with an MSc in Design Research from a cooperative program run in collaboration between the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, Hochschule Anhalt, and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in Germany, and has presented her thesis entitled A Dhikr of Nila: Ways of Thinking, Knowing and Being with Land and Water at gatherings across Pakistan, Germany, and the Jan van Eyck Academie in the Netherlands.

She has worked with Open Door Design Studio & Workshop as an Associate Architect and served as an educator at the University of Karachi and Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture, where she taught 3rd-year Architecture Design Studio and Basic Design in the Foundation Programme respectively. She is a recipient of the Global UGRAD Award (Fall 2015), organized by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, which granted her a semester-long study at the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design, University of Arkansas, during her bachelor’s training. In 2022, she received a research grant for the project A Collection of Narratives: Between Bangladesh and Pakistan as part of the Transforming Narratives Programme, organized by the British Council, UK.

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