Mumtaz Hammad is a trans-disciplinary scholar, audio designer, writer, and urban planner. They hold an M.S. in Urban Planning from GSAPP at Columbia University, after receiving their previous M.A. in South Asian Studies from UT Austin.
Their work engages with spatial justice, nightlife design, intercultural planning, liquid infrastructure, and how community spaces are located and interpellated in processes of urban planning.
Their writings have been previously published in EFNIKS, Spy Kids Review, URBAN Magazine, Cordite Magazine, and Rest for Resistance. CV may be provided upon request.
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REWORKING CURVATURES: RE-APPLYING MATERIAL + CYBORG FEMINISM
Virtual Lecture and Discussion
Presented in 2019
Reworking Curvatures: Re-Applying Material + Cyborg Feminism” was an online lecture I presented as part of a collaborative open source project (With You For You) operated by BY US FOR US in NYC. Flier artwork by program organizers.
Course Description:
within material feminism, a particular emergent branch called cyborg feminism has been taking strident approaches in analysing how the state of "being" is always already reformulated through the global capitalist matrix, notably in a posthumanist lens. this class will seek to briefly explore the topical content of cyborg feminism in hopes for students to widen their perspectives of theoretical analysis, making contemporary feminist theory accessible for students, allowing students to formulate new theoretical frameworks to think about the future of the self and societies as a whole.