Dr Amina Abbas-Nazari

Biography

Amina Abbas-Nazari is a practicing designer, researcher, and vocal performer.
Their work investigates intersectional and more-than-human approaches to design and technology, particularly via sonic theory and practice.

She is currently a Lecturer in Contextual and Theoretical Studies (CTS), across the design school at London College of Communication, UAL. She is also a postdoctoral researcher on the Scoring Warnings project ay the Royal College of Art. Scoring Warnings, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, mobilises artistic practices to interrogate the instructional mode of address in disaster preparedness. It examines crossovers between emergency communication and contemporary art to explore more inclusive, engaging, and effective ways of communicating risk.Scoring Warnings is a collaboration between the Royal College of Art, University of the Arts London’s Creative Research into Sound Arts Practice (CRiSAP), University College London’s Warning Research Centre (WRC), the Global Network of Civil Society Organisations for Disaster Reduction (GNDR), Tate Modern, East Gallery, Arnolfini, Hangar Barcelona and more.

She has researched the voice in conjunction with emerging technology since 2008 and recently completed a PhD in the School of Communication at the Royal College of Art, investigating the sound and sounding of voices in artificially intelligent conversational and machine listening systems. She previously studied MA Design Interactions and also previously worked as a Research Fellow on the EPSRC-funded Citizen Naturewatch project at RCA.

Her work has been presented internationally including the London Design Festival, Design Museum, Barbican Centre, V&A, Lisson Gallery, Milan Furniture Fair, Venice Architecture Biennial, Critical Media Lab, Switzerland, Litost Gallery, Prague and Harvard University, America. She has performed internationally with choirs and regularly collaborates with artists as an experimental vocalist.