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Mariam Shamma

Design

Emirati • Based in Abu Dhabi, UAE

Languages: English, Arabic

Mariam Shamma is an Emirati interdisciplinary designer and strategist working across storytelling, visual communication, and learning experiences. Her practice focuses on identity and inclusion, exploring how people recognise themselves in systems, spaces, and narratives through research-led, facilitation-based design.

Exhibitions

Group Exhibitions

2024
(un)cooked
Jameel Art Centre, UAE
2025
NEON NEON
Manarat Al Saadiyat, UAE

Artistic Practice

RESEARCH APPROACH

Inquiry-based, visual, and context-driven research exploring how design communicates identity and fosters inclusion.

KEY THEMES

identity, inclusion, belonging, storytelling, education, everyday life

METHODS AND PROCESSES

Works through phased planning from research to concept, prototyping, refinement, and delivery using facilitation-led methods. Uses print and archival material as supporting references.

Mediums

PRIMARY

Research-based visual practice, interdisciplinary design

SECONDARY

Print, archival material

DEGREES

2011
Bachelor of Science, Visual Communication
American University of Sharjah
Current
Master of Business Administration
2024
The Assembly 2023–2024 Cohort
Jameel Arts Centre

AWARDS & RECOGNITION

2025
Building Bridges: Voices of the Future
by Al-Futtaim

TEACHING ON DISTRICT1795

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