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Miriam Hillawi Abraham

Miriam Hillawi Abraham
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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Miriam Hillawi Abraham is a multidisciplinary designer from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. With a background in architecture, she works with digital media and spatial design to interrogate themes of equitable futurism and intersectionality. Miriam's research interests are concerned with the politics of space as well as technocultures rooted in the African continent. She has worked as the game-code instructor at Bay Area Video Coalition’s youth program for over three years, was a Mellon researcher for the Canadian Centre for Architecture’s Digital Now multidisciplinary project, and is currently an artist-in-residence at the Jan Van Eyck Academy. Miriam's work has been featured in the 18th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia as part of the special project Guests from the Future; the 2nd Sharjah Architecture Triennial; and the 14th Shanghai Biennale, Cosmos Cinema.

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