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ARIBA RAFI
Aspiration Statement
I want to make a positive impact on communities and social relations amongst people. I want to pursue it through visual arts, research and design.
Core Skills
- Python
- Design Research (Affinity Mapping, Interviews, Observations)
- Cinematography
- Film Editing
- Design Thinking
Academic Awards / Achievements
- Selected for Summer Program 2020 at University of California, Berkeley
Experience
Leadership / Meta-curricular
- Marketing Manager, Tezhib Undergraduate Research Journal
- Marketing Manager, "A Very Desi Potter Musical"
- Orientation Leader
Internship / Volunteer Work
- Service Designer - Ideate Innovation
- Design Researcher - Playground Centre For Transdisciplinary, Design & Innovation (May 2021 - December 2021)
- Sandbox Fellowship - Ideate Innovation (June 2021 - August 2021)
- Visual Communication Intern Visual Communication Intern - Ra'ana Liaquat Craftsmen's Colony (RLCC)
Publications / Creative Projects
- Produced a documentary on Numaish Chowrangi, Karachi through stories of residents living in the middle of protest in 2021
- Led a full-cycle HCD project partnered with NOWPDP to design with and for persons with disabilities in 2021 as part of Ideate Sandbox Fellowship
- Fully produced a documentary on Special Olympics Pakistan through the lens of a veteran coach in 2019
- Exploring, mapping and documenting the lack of representation of women in STEM fields as a design researcher at Playground
Final Year Project
Project Title
Communicating Feminist Ideas to Middle Aged Pakistani Women
Description
The purpose of this capstone project was to include middle-aged Pakistani women in mainstream feminist narratives and perspectives. In the contemporary narrative, feminist in Pakistan has a very elitist and urban connotation to it, with most engaging women being young adults. In turn, feminist ideas being put forward are also about transforming lives for the certain age group, leaving out the many older women who could also benefit from pro-women ideas in the subcontinental culture. This project is a social media campaign aimed to bridge the gap between older women and feminist ideas they are not comfortable identifying with.