Naadira Patel
Naadira Patel is an artist, and designer based in Johannesburg. She leads softwork, an interdisciplinary art and design practice working within an ecosystem of designers and makers across the fields of art, architecture, design, and feminist and queer organising work. Her practice is research-oriented, experimental, collaborative, and speculative. Naadira holds a research Masters in Cultural Analysis from the University of Amsterdam, and has lectured at the Wits School of Arts, and in Unit18 and Unit24 at the Graduate School of Architecture (GSA) in Johannesburg.
Recent projects include design collaborations with WOLFF Architects, the African Centre for Migration & Society (ACMS) and Frame45, working with the design and curatorial team of the 18th Biennale Architettura 2023, The Laboratory of the Future; African Futures Institute; Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA); Zietz MOCAA; Johannesburg Contemporary Art Foundation (JCAF); African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF); Sexual Rights Initiative (SRI); Black Beyond Data; Association for Women in Development (AWID), and most recently the South African Pavilion for the Biennale Arte 2024, amongst many others.
