Raghad Saqfalhait Seed Awards recipient

Raghad Saqfalhait is an architect and designer practicing in the multi-disciplinary creative field of material research and innovation. She listens, documents, and experiments with materials; their histories of subtraction and transformation, their geological structures and compositions, and the patterns of their ownership and exploitation within regimes of apartheid and oppression. She was awarded the JEA prize for her architecture graduation project “Scales of Integration: The Body, the Cemetery, and the Terrain”. In 2019, she co-founded Sakeb; a design collective working on, about, and through waste; especially waste produced by the Stone and Marble Industry in Palestine. Sakeb was exhibited and sold in multiple venues like Milan Design Week (2022), Amman design Week (2019), Warehouse421, Art Jameel, and Beit Obaid Al-Shamsi.