Special Subject: Art, Culture, and Technology — Publication as Worldmaking: Performative Approaches to Fiction and Publishing (Spring 2025)
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Raafat Majzoub (SMACT ’17) is an architect, artist, writer, director of The Khan: The Arab Association for Prototyping Cultural Practices, editor-in-chief of the Architecture Series at Dongola, and co-founder of The Outpost magazine. He is currently a Visiting Lecturer at the Art, Culture, and Technology program and a Research Fellow at the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at MIT. Previously, Majzoub was a lecturer at the Architecture and Design Department at the American University of Beirut and mentored at MISK Art Institute in Riyadh and Ashkal Alwan in Beirut.
Majzoub’s work explores worldmaking through fiction, performance and experiments in mutual learning. He is the co-editor of ‘Beyond Ruins: Reimagining Modernism’ (ArchiTangle, 2024), ‘Design to Live: Everyday Inventions from a Refugee Camp’ (MIT Press, 2021) and ‘What are Borders?’ (AUB, 2021), and has contributed to several anthologies, most notably, ‘Notes on Scarcity’ (Park Books, 2024) and ‘How to Maneuver’ (Kayfa-ta, 2020). His work has been shown internationally, most recently in Sharjah Biennial 16 and Homeworks Forum 9.
