ghazal jafari is a Perso-Azeri scholar, designer, and weaver, living in voluntary exile in the United States. she is professionally trained as an architect and urban ecologist. her work intersects environmental justice, landscape histories, feminist liberation, narratives of
migration, and non-Western geospatial discourses. her practice converges counter-representations, ecologies, and material research empowered by multimedia approach to story-telling, translations, and transliterations. Ghazal is a
founding co-director of OPEN SYSTEMS / Landscape Infrastructure Lab, a non-profit
501(c)(3) organization dedicated to opening knowledge of complex ecological
challenges and raising awareness about geopolitical conflicts at the
intersection of spatial equity, climate justice, and community
self-determination. Ghazal is an Assistant Professor of Urban &
Environmental Planning at University
of Virginia.
