SARA RADI SAYED ALI AHMED

PhD Student

PhD program:: XXXVII
email: sararadi.ahmed@uniroma1.it





Sarah R. Ahmed (b. Saudi Arabia, 1995) is a PhD candidate (2021-2024) in Landscape and Environment in Rome’s University (La Sapienza) for which she was awarded the International Fellowship Scholarship. After graduating from Fayoum University with a degree of Architectural Engineering, she has worked with designers, anthropologists, and social scientists invested in urban research in historical Cairo, employing performative mapping, tracing and observation to investigate the attitudes and social engagement towards ancient monuments and ways to mobilise, and recontextualise the remains into the lives of residents of Fatimid Cairo, now classified as precarious neighbourhoods. This research project was awarded two grants, followed up by its recognition and participation in multiple workshops and conferences, including  African Crossroads in Marrakesh in 2018, and Non-fiction’s project Grounded Urban Practices. She has completed her Master ALA, 2021 in Architecture, Landscape and Archaeology in Rome’s La Sapienza, University of Coimbra and Napoli’s Federico ii, in which she specialised in intervening in archaeological landscapes/sites in different contexts, with Thesis title: from the Palatine to the Tiber: Spatial Flows of Bodies and Organs. Her research interest include: deeply analysing existing urban and landscape environments through mappings in order to achieve contextualised design solutions based on the different parameters each site has to offer. With particular interest in the historical aspects in landscape and urban contexts, she was able investigate the relationships between archaeological remains and current realities, in Cairo, Coimbra and Rome.

Research products

11573/1690819 - 2023 - The Physical and the Imaginary: Transitional Perceptions of Landscapes
Ahmed, Sara Radi Sayed Ali; Daniele, Maria Cecilia; Conte, Andrea - 02a Capitolo o Articolo
book: RYC, re:imagine your city - (978-3-948174-23-1)

11573/1697975 - 2023 - REIMAGINE MONUMENTAL SPACES THROUGH PERFORMATIVE ACTIONS: THE CREATION OF CONTEMPORARY LIVING ARCHIVES
Ahmed, Sara Radi Sayed Ali; Daniele, Maria Cecilia; Conte, Andrea - 04d Abstract in atti di convegno
conference: Beyond the Gaze: Understanding and Interpreting the City (Ferrara)
book: Beyond the gaze Interpreting and Understanding the City - (978-88-31277-08-2)

11573/1709451 - 2023 - Playful Landscapes. Inclusive design strategies
Ahmed, Sara Radi Sayed Ali; Sakellariou, Athanassia; Daniele, Maria Cecilia - 02a Capitolo o Articolo
book: Paesaggio. Inclusione - (978-88-6242-906-1)

11573/1710932 - 2022 - Design in the Meta.space: A speculative investigation into the spatial perception at the virtual-analog frontier
Profaska, Justyna; Ahmed, Sara Radi Sayed Ali; Puchades, Carmen - 02a Capitolo o Articolo
book: Meta.space. Visions of Space from the Middle Ages to the Digital Age - (978-3-95476-536-2)

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