Alisha Kapoor

alishakapoor@cunet.carleton.ca

Alisha Kapoor is an architectural designer and researcher interested in extending architectural pedagogy to acknowledge epistemic injustice in design praxis. She employs an interdisciplinary approach to counter-memory activism–through computational textiles and archival material–calling attention to the phenomenological limits of the built environment and foregrounding alternative histories forged from lived experiences.

Prior to joining the ASAU, Alisha worked as an intern architect in Ottawa and Montreal, conducted fieldwork on policy, dress, and maneuverability using public clotheslines–supported by the MDes Research and Development Award–and exhibited and published her work in Cambridge, Toronto, Harvard, and Princeton. She has guest lectured at seminars and conferences, moderated discussions on visual communications, and sat in multiple reviews across North America, espousing open-source storytelling and other extracanonical tools for advocacy.

She holds an MDes, Publics, from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, an MArch from the Azrieli School of Architecture, and a B. Arts & Sc., summa cum laude, from McMaster University.