Fereshteh Assadzadeh, born in 1991 and currently based in Tehran, studied architecture and works as an architect, editor and writer and is a tireless walker when it comes to urban environments. She is interested in employing various mediums as means of understanding the city. In addition to winning design and idea competitions, she has been featured in different international publications and exhibitions. She has also contributed in several issues of Memar magazine, the leading architecture magazine in Iran, as a member of the editorial board and writer.

Her graduation thesis, Islands of Otherness: Archipelago Istanbul (2016) looks at the on-going fragmentation of the city of Istanbul from the angle of alterity. The research employs a sort of narrative inquiry, which in the future, will be extended into a film essay script inspired by the work of Chris Marker. Fereshteh has studied her home city of Tehran as well, for instance The House Tehran Is Talking About (2016) reveals a shameful collective fantasy belonging to the residents of Tehran regarding their dream house, and to do so it employs a satirical text aided by a few collages. The project Subversive Tehran (2015) explores, through a couple of infographic illustrations, the in-between fluid spaces specific to Tehran which allow repressed activities practiced by the people to survive. The project Genius Loci (2018) narrates a type of Dérive in Tehran and its recording through nocturnal photographs. The on-going project Tableaux Téhéranais (2019) is a reflection on the relationship between urban representation and the act of walking, for which another method of recording a Dérive is explored by illustration and painting.

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