Sepideh Karami

Sepideh Karami is an architect, educator, writer, and researcher with a PhD in Architecture, Critical Studies from KTH. She is currently a lecturer in architecture at the University of Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture.

Throughout her career, she has been dedicated to teaching, research, and practice in global settings including Iran, Sweden, and Kenya, as well as the UK. Her work is characterized by artistic research, experimental methods, and interdisciplinary approaches at the intersection of architecture, performing arts, literature, and geology, with the ethos of decolonization, minor politics, and criticality from within. Currently, her research focuses on post-petroleum imaginaries, investigating decolonial ways of telling stories about oil and seeking to reestablish connections with the environment that have been disrupted by a long history of colonization and extractivism.