{"id":2498,"date":"2025-10-31T11:55:40","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T18:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amplab.ok.ubc.ca\/?page_id=2498"},"modified":"2025-11-03T14:14:50","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T22:14:50","slug":"ahlam-bavi","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/amplab.ok.ubc.ca\/index.php\/ahlam-bavi\/","title":{"rendered":"Ahlam Bavi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"542\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/amplab.ok.ubc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/bavi-a-542x600-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2499\" style=\"object-fit:cover;width:300px;height:300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/amplab.ok.ubc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/bavi-a-542x600-1.jpg 542w, https:\/\/amplab.ok.ubc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/bavi-a-542x600-1-271x300.jpg 271w, https:\/\/amplab.ok.ubc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/bavi-a-542x600-1-230x255.jpg 230w, https:\/\/amplab.ok.ubc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/bavi-a-542x600-1-350x387.jpg 350w, https:\/\/amplab.ok.ubc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/bavi-a-542x600-1-480x531.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 542px) 100vw, 542px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Ahlam (she\/her) is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uregina.ca\/media-art-performance\/directory\/bavi-ahlam.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Assistant Professor in the Department of Media, Art, and Performance<\/a> at the University of Regina. Ahlam is an industrial designer, digital artist, and design educator specializing in digital design, cultural heritage preservation and accessibility. With expertise in 3D technologies, computational generative design, and digital humanities research, she&#8217;s dedicated to making heritage more accessible, particularly for Indigenous peoples and marginalized communities.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ahlam completed her PhD in the IGS Program (Digital Arts and Humanities theme) at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan, where she was the 2020 Principal\u2019s Research Chair Fellow. Her dissertation, co-supervised by Hussein Keshani and Karis Shearer, was titled &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/open.library.ubc.ca\/soa\/cIRcle\/collections\/ubctheses\/24\/items\/1.0449215\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Seeing through Touch: Creating Inclusive Experiences for Blind and Partially-Sighted Museum Visitors with 3D Printing<\/a>&#8221; and aims to improve the museum experience for those with visual impairments. Ahlam\u2019s doctoral research was profiled in a UBC O story \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/news.ok.ubc.ca\/2020\/11\/19\/rethinking-art-and-accessibility\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Re-thinking Art and Accessibility.<\/a>\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before pursuing her Ph.D., Ahlam completed a Master of Art Studies focused on &#8220;Tactile Persian Miniature (Negargary) for Blind and Partially Sighted with a focus on Universal Design.&#8221; Prior to that, she earned a Bachelor of Industrial Design focused on &#8220;Design of a Vibratory Orthosis for Parkinson\u2019s disease focused on User-Centered Design &#8211; UCD Method.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahlam (she\/her) is Assistant Professor in the Department of Media, Art, and Performance at the University of Regina. Ahlam is an industrial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2498","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amplab.ok.ubc.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amplab.ok.ubc.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amplab.ok.ubc.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amplab.ok.ubc.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amplab.ok.ubc.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/amplab.ok.ubc.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2501,"href":"https:\/\/amplab.ok.ubc.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2498\/revisions\/2501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amplab.ok.ubc.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}