Reema Abu Hassan is a designer, professor, architect, ceramic artisan, and entrepreneur based in Qatar. She is the founding director of the Clay Encounters ceramic design studio. Drawing from her background in architecture, digital fabrication, design, and ceramics, she has developed a hybridity in her work that fosters the power of interdisciplinarity. Through Clay Encounters and her teaching position at VCUarts Qatar, she has positioned design, craft, collaboration, and teaching as core components of how she practices and conducts her research. Her current work integrates digital tools into the analogue processes of traditional modes of making within crafts and specifically within ceramics.
Website: www.clayencounters.com
Instagram: instagram.com/clay_encounters
Contribution to Tasmeem
Workshop Hand Building: An Exploration of Clay co-led with Sara Bazzano
Workshop Moroccan Pattern Painting co-led with Nada Elkharashi, Abdulrahman Al Muftah and Majdulin Nasrallah
