{"id":8106,"date":"2022-06-08T11:07:43","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T06:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/habib.edu.pk\/HU-news\/?p=8106"},"modified":"2025-07-25T11:40:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T06:40:04","slug":"habib-universitys-cnd-final-year-showcase-exhibits-students-finest-talent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/habib.edu.pk\/HU-news\/habib-universitys-cnd-final-year-showcase-exhibits-students-finest-talent\/","title":{"rendered":"Habib University\u2019s CND Final Year Showcase exhibits students\u2019 finest talent"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the 18th<\/sup> of May 2022, the Communication and Design department<\/a> at Habib University<\/a> showcased CND students\u2019 final year projects on campus with immense vibrancy and charisma. The event was divided into three segments; film screenings, project displays and installations that were sprawled in separate locations across campus \u2013 each showcasing students\u2019 work. The event was attended by the student body, faculty, alumni and jurors assessing the projects. The event was a culmination of the class of 2022\u2019s undergraduate journey at Habib University. A total of 47 projects were displayed at the showcase with topics like design-thinking, social awareness, women-empowerment, mental health, and Covid-19 among others at the heart of the students\u2019 research.<\/p>\n

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The film screenings featured short films, web series, animation and short film documentaries. To name a few, Mahnoor Nadeem\u2019s short film, Qurbat Ki Leherein<\/em>, talked about language as a powerful tool in constructing realities and how it constructs and transforms the reality of a close interpersonal relationship. Elsa Sajjad\u2019s Mohabbat<\/em> consisted of episodes corresponding to five toxic tropes perpetuated in Hollywood.<\/p>\n

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Umama Leghari\u2019s animation film, Oonhai<\/em>, was a short, dream-like animated film portraying the experience of flooding and natural disaster in rural Sindh through the perspective of a young boy.<\/p>\n

Zain Salim\u2019s short film documentary When The Music Stopped <\/em>explored the impact of COVID-19 on indie artists within Pakistan\u2019s music industry.<\/p>\n

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In the project displays, many of the students\u2019 work was centered around women, such as, Kam-Yaabi<\/em> by Mariyam Aslam Bawany and Fatima Nooraen, a board game and book project that vocational training centres can use to develop, improve and instill entrepreneurship and financial literacy skills in women studying in those vocational training centers.<\/p>\n

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Fatima Naushad Akhai\u2019s mobile app, HerLife<\/em>, helps women find jobs based on their needs and requirements while also building a community of women in Karachi. Marium Javed\u2019s photobook, Azaad, represents women’s experiences of oppression and how they transcended them.<\/p>\n

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Aiman Nouman\u2019s toolkit, Qubool Hai! Magar Kya? – Assessing women’s agency on their nikah namas in Pakistan<\/em> is a toolkit with a number of components, ranging from a dummy nikah nama, an illustrated zine, a board game, and a manual that aims to act as a design solution for the problem of depriving women of the agency and accessibility to their nikah namas. The toolkit will act as a means to increase awareness. Hanaa Gatta\u2019s project is a child motorcycle carrier exhibits a personalized child carrier for mothers who travel with toddlers on a motorcycle.<\/p>\n

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Ariba Rafi\u2019s project installation, Feminism for the Middle-Aged Housewife<\/em>, was an installation and short film on the stories of middle-aged Pakistani women and the way ageism affects their lives beyond 35 years of age.<\/p>\n

A few focused on the complex topic of mental health and stigma. For example, Zinnia Amin\u2019s riveting sculpture project, Log Kia Kahein Gay<\/em>, was a visual and audio exhibit that shed light on the construction of identity and how relationships with people and objects are shaped through this symbolic process. Taha Ali Murtaza\u2019s PC project, Recreating Therapy<\/em>, was a game that told the story of someone with anxiety going to therapy for the first time.<\/p>\n

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Some were centered on how material objects and their connection to human life, such as, Maham Khan\u2019s Mini Furniture Display which is an allegorical chest-of-drawers that invites the viewer to explore material objects that represent various layers of a person’s life – from the functional to the dark and unresolved. Eesha Iftikhar Qazi\u2019s stirring project, In Lieu of Forgetting (Memorial Museum)<\/em> was an installation that evoked the tangibility of loss of life in Covid through material objects.<\/p>\n

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A number of projects also showcased heritage. For instance, Sara Ahmad and Munira Kazi\u2019s visual display, Karachi On Wheels<\/em>, that solves an intellectual problem – the lack of knowledge of Karachi’s culture, heritage and history. Bhawna Kamal Lohana\u2019s artist\u2019s book, Imagined City<\/em>, that showcased displacement of Hindu sites, spaces and movement in Hyderabad. Maria Khan\u2019s visual exhibit, Journey to God – Experiences of Sufism,<\/em> was an outlook on sufism in Pakistan, its history, design and contemporary importance of it in our times. Will contain architecture, a design catalogue, and an experience-led installation according to geographical divisions of the Mazaars touched upon in Pakistan.<\/p>\n

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With these innovative and creative projects, the Class of 2022 showed dynamism in their research interests and explored subjects that resonated with the times. Dr. Muhammad Haris, Assistant Dean for the School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, commented, \u201cCND students have had a university education about ideas. These are students who are skillful when it comes to the craft of filmmaking. They are also immersed in the history of ideas and can think comparatively.\u201d<\/p>\n