Reema Abu Hassan

Reema Abu Hassan is a designer, professor, architect, ceramic artisan and entrepreneur. She is the founding director of the Clay Encounters ceramic design studio in Qatar. Drawing from her background in architecture, digital fabrication, theory, design and ceramics, she has developed a hybridity to her work that fosters the power of interdisciplinarity. Through Clay Encounters and her teaching position at VCU-Qatar, she has positioned design, craft, collaboration, participation and teaching as core components to the way in which she practices and conducts her research. Her current work integrates digital tools into the analogue processes of traditional modes of making within crafts and specifically within ceramics.