RESEARCH
DIGITAL GANDHARA IS AN INTER-INSTITUTIONAL WEB ARCHIVE FOR EXPLORING ANCIENT BUDDHIST SITES AND ARTIFACTS [HARVARD CAMLAB, 2024]
SILENT SUMMER IS A COMMUNITY SCIENTIST’S DIGITAL GUIDEBOOK TO THREATENED MIGRATORY BIRDS ON CAPE ANN, MA [HARVARD OFFICE FOR URBANIZATION, 2024]
MY RIVER MAKES NUMBERS MY RIVER MAKES LOVE IS A LECTURE ON COLONIAL CARTOGRAPHIC DATA AND INTERSPECIES KINSHIP ON THE INDUS RIVER [UCLA HAMMER MUSEUM, 2023]
MANGROVE ECOLOGIES IS A CATALOG OF REFORESTATION KNOWLEDGE IN THE INDUS DELTA [HARVARD DEPARTMENT OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE, 2022]
HIYOKECHI IS A SPATIAL READING OF TOKYO’S PUBLIC PARKS WITHIN THE HISTORY OF DISASTER MITIGATION [HARVARD REAL ESTATE, 2023]
OASIS IS A SATELLITE IMAGING BASED MODEL FOR ECOLOGICALLY-ATTUNED MIGRATION IN THE SAHEL [SPATIAL DESIGN FOR CLIMATE MIGRATION, 2024]
FORENSIC WATERS IS A MAPPING PROJECT THAT TRACES GROUNDWATER SALINITY FROM COLONIAL DAMS TO ANCIENT HARAPPAN HERITAGE [CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY, 2022]
WEATHER ISLANDS IS A MODEL FOR EROSION-DRIVEN LANDSCAPES IN RIVERINE ECOSYSTEMS [CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY, 2019]
INDUS ATLAS IS A MAPPING AND HISTORIOGRAPHY OF WATER-MONITORING TECHNOLOGIES IN THE INDUS BASIN [HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF DESIGN, 2022]
FILM
TENDING IS A SONIC FILM ON PRACTICES OF LAND REPAIR AND CARE WITHIN THE FLOOD ZONES OF GLACIAL LAKES IN THE ROLWALING VALLEY OF NEPAL
HYMNS FOR GLACIA IS A FILM DOCUMENTING THE LOSS OF GLACIAL LANDS AND LIFE ALONG THE KARAKORUM HIGHWAY IN NORTHERN PAKISTAN [MIT, 2024]
INSTALLATION
WE ARE ONE IS A MULTIMEDIA EXHIBITION NARRATING A HISTORIC WOMEN’S LABOR MOVEMENT IN INDIA [HARVARD CGIS, 2024]
AUDIO AVIARY IS AN INSTALLATION FOR COMMUNICATING WITH THREATENED BIRDS USING FIELD RECORDINGS MADE BY COMMUNITY SCIENTISTS [GUND HALL, 2024]
SONIC WEATHERS IS A STAGE INSTALLATION AND MUSICAL PERFORMANCE USING SOUNDS, INSTRUMENTS, AND VOCALS FROM THE HIMALAYA [KIRKLAND GALLERY, 2024]
SPOOKY TECHNOLOGY IS AN EXHIBITION OF UNSETTLING DATA-MINING AND MOTION-RESPONSIVE TECHNOLOGIES IN DOMESTIC SPACE [CMU IDEATE, 2022]
SHARIQ
SHAH
Designer, Researcher, Storyteller
MDes Ecologies
Harvard University
Graduate School of Design
BArch
Carnegie Mellon University
School of Architecture
SHAH
Designer, Researcher, Storyteller
MDes Ecologies
Harvard University
Graduate School of Design
BArch
Carnegie Mellon University
School of Architecture
Shariq is a designer and researcher born in Atlanta, Georgia and practicing across national boundaries. His transdisciplinary work concerns the relationship between ecology and technology, specifically as it relates to colonial history. His practice examines the ways in which more-than-human relations are made and remade in territories facing ecological violence, from ancestors to kin and mothers to dolphins. This work, across moving image, audio, installation, and mapping, has primarily responded to histories of the river basins, mountain ranges, and glacial valleys in Asia.
These projects have been generously supported by the Harvard Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard Urban Planning and Design, the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute, the Harvard Asia Center, and the Harvard Fairbank Center. He has recently exhibited at the Kirkland Gallery, the Harvard Center for Government and International Studies, and the UCLA Hammer Museum. Shariq earned his Bachelor of Architecture at the College of Fine Arts at Carnegie Mellon University. He completed his Masters in Design Studies with a concentration in Ecologies at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
