Zain Islam-Hashmi is an aspiring designer, researcher, and maker. Raised in the rural farmlands of Central New Jersey, he is a first-generation Pakistani-American passionate about fabrication, materiality, and global citizenship. Zain graduated in 2019 from Carnegie Mellon University's Bachelor of Architecture program with minors in Intelligent Environments and Architectural Design Fabrication. 

 

Zain has worked for offices and non-profit organizations across America and in Japan, Ghana, Pakistan, and France. He has worked across a range of scales and disciplines such as architecture, industrial design, curation, fashion and production, and his design and research work has been featured in several news articles and publications, as well as presented at conferences across the country. Zain is interested in exploring the different levels of engagement between people and design, from clothing and installations to research initiatives and participatory design events. He believes that architecture goes beyond building environments to creating memories for people and is excited in exploring the different avenues of engagement possible between people, design, their communities, and the spaces they inhabit.

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When he is not working, making, or gallivanting across the world, you can find Zain reading books and the occasional manga, watching foreign films, taking photos on disposable cameras, or eating copious amounts of desserts and spicy food. He also serves part-time as the USA International Fellow for Domaine de Boisbuchet.