Dima Srouji Palestinian, b. 1990

Dima Srouji is an architect, artist, and researcher interested in the ground, objects, displacement, restitution, forgeries, and living archives. Srouji looks for potential ruptures in the ground where imaginary liberation is possible. She works with glass, text, archival materials, maps, plaster casts, and film, understanding each as an evocative object and emotional companion that help her question what cultural heritage and public space mean in the larger context of the Middle East as well as a focused lens on Palestine. Srouji’s work lies in the expanded context of interdisciplinary research projects. It acts as a form of political commentary and as a place-making or unmaking tool. She questions ideas of identity and globalisation through historic strata and spatial edges, in connection to the spirit of a place and displacement through architectural projects, installations, product designs, and through her writing. Srouji’s projects are developed closely with archaeologists, anthropologists, sound designers, and glassblowers.

Dima Srouji was the 2022-2023 Jameel Fellow at the Victoria & Albert Museum and is currently leading the MA City Design studios at the Royal College of Art in London. Her work is part of the permanent collections at the Corning Museum of Glass and the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.