Ghalia Elsrakbi is a design professional, researcher, and design educator. After obtaining a Master’s degree in Design at the Sandberg Institute, Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, she joined the post-academic interdisciplinary program ” Design Negation” at Jan van Eyck Academy Maastricht. Her research was dedicated to the investigation of populist politics from the perspective of design and theory. In 2009, Together with artist Lauren Alexander, she co-founded Foundland Collective, an art and design practice based between Cairo and Amsterdam. Foundland’s projects explore under-represented political and historical narratives by working with archives via art, design, writing, educational formats, video making, and storytelling. It aims to critically reflect upon what it means to produce politically engaged and de-colonial work from the position of non-Western artists working between Europe and the Middle East.
She is an Associate Professor of Practice in Design and the Director of the Graphic Design Program at the American University in Cairo. She is a co-founder and co-curator of Cairotronica, Cairo Electronic, and New Media Arts Festival.
