Nida Abdullah
Associate Professor; Pre-College Lecturer
Biography
Nida Abdullah is an interdisciplinary maker, researcher and educator whose approach is rooted in softness and slowness as an ongoing practice of refusal. Her recent research centers gota adornment in textile design and fiber arts. Through gota, she explores embodied making as forms of witnessing. This work engages with inherited lineages of practices, materials, presences, histories, memories, bodies, temporals and false borders. She is currently a Research Collaborator at the Laboratory for Integrated Archaeological Visualization and Heritage.
With the group Post-Radical Pedagogy, she complicates teaching, questioning the values that shape design pedagogy, exploring the boundaries and limits of what is a pedagogical practice.
Education
Bachelor of Graphic Design (BGD), NC State University; Masters of Graphic Design (MGD), NC State University