يسرّنا دعوتكم لمشاركتنا أمسية إطلاق الكتاب الأول لـمغرس، والتي تتضمّن جلسات حوارية وعروضًا مرئية، تستعرض الأبحاث المُنجزة خلال العام الماضي، وتتناول أبرز القضايا والأفكار التي شكّلت هذا العمل.
الرجاء تسجيل الحضور عبر الرابط.
Join us for an evening reception, screening and panels unpacking the research developed over the past year and key themes explored in Maghras’s first publication.
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Lulu Almana, a landscape architect based in Saudi Arabia, is one of the co-curators of Maghras, A Farm for Experimentation. She specializes in urban regeneration and ecological restoration. Having worked in London, Istanbul, and Abu Dhabi, she brings a global-local perspective to her work. She served as an advisor to the Vice Minister of the Ministry of Municipalities and Housing from 2022–23, focusing on Saudi Arabia’s community parks strategy. At Arup, she led the development of the Urban Transformation Manual launched by the Saudi Architecture and Design Commission in 2024—a comprehensive initiative dedicated to regenerating public spaces. She continues to serve as a jury member for national design awards in the Kingdom. She studied at the American University of Sharjah and Columbia University in New York. In 2024, she co-founded Maghras with Sara Al Omran, a farm and community space in Al Ahsa.
Sara Al Omran, a strategy advisor to art institutions in Saudi Arabia and the region, co-curated Maghras, A Farm for Experimentation. Her work has been dedicated to building art institutions and nurturing creative communities. She formerly served as the Deputy Director at Art Jameel, where she led the launch and development of Hayy Jameel, a multidisciplinary arts complex with a particular mandate to support artists through residencies, commissions, and bespoke learning programs. Prior to working at Art Jameel, Sara worked as a management consultant with Monitor Group and the Boston Consulting Group, focusing on education and social impact projects. She is the co-founder of Maghras, a farm and community space in Al Ahsa launched in 2024 with Lulu Almana.
Latifa Alkhayat is a Bahraini architect, researcher, and educator whose work navigates the intersections of materials, landscapes, and energy systems, with a focus on circularity. Her approach moves between narrated world-building and precise technical resolution, bridging speculation with groundedness. In 2023, Alkhayat co-curated Sweating Assets, the National Pavilion of the Kingdom of Bahrain at the Venice Architecture Biennale, where she foregrounded critical conversations around thermal comfort and environmental resilience. Her experience in architectural practice spans the UK, US, and Bahrain. Alkhayat earned her Master of Architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2023, where she later taught and received numerous honors, including the prestigious AIA Certificate of Merit. She is the co-founder of Maraj (2024) and Harness the Heat (2021).
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