Mahwish Khalil

Mahwish Khalil is a SMArchS AKPIA candidate at MIT. She is an architect by profession, having earned her degree from Beaconhouse National University with a Distinction Award. Mahwish has presented her undergraduate thesis project at the AMPs International Conference titled “Urban Assemblages: The City as Architecture, Media, AI and the Big Data.” Consequently, followed by a publication of her research in the AMPs Conference Proceedings. She has previously taught design and history courses at the School of Architecture and Design at IAC Lahore. Her interests lie in the inquiry of the built environment, spanning the influences of history within the contemporary society. She aspires to investigate possibilities existing within space that arise beyond preliminary perception and respond to urgent socio-political and climate crises. Her approach to architecture and design has been multi-disciplinary. She uses various mediums of art and communication to delve into issues of global, cultural and political conflicts in order to investigate solutions with a focus on equity, relationship between culture and evolving identities of cities, collective narratives and spatial memories.