Sadia Rahman is an urban practitioner and artist focused on cities. Their research develops on and through the platform EcologyTalks.com, a collaborative space that invites visitors to create a ‘love-letter’ to our nonhuman co-beings in the city. Sadia also runs workshops on ecology in the curriculum, forms of collaboration and deep listening as well as situated video work exploring site-specific ecologies to recognise nonhuman spaces and processes in the city. The work treads between performance, eco-linguistic critique, spatial practice and translations of our surrounding ecologies into future-facing narratives; Sadia’s work often destabilises English as the assumed norm in the ecological lexicon and foregrounds unheard others; from other lexicons to the (speculative) voices and spatial experiences of other species. The platform hosts workshops with a range of audiences through public events, on live radio, and at higher education institutions including Central Saint Martins and most recently a trilingual ecology talks production at IED Kunsthal in Bilbao.

Sadia works across several modes of public engagement at different scales, from public presentations at academic conferences such as The Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA), to participation in the  Entangled Futures cross-disciplinary workshop series at CSM. Ecology Talks also delivers regular sessions ‘on the ground’ to bring diversity to the forefront of our ecological communities; they currently lead a programme called “Porechoi” at Calthorpe Community Garden in collaboration with a group of elderly Bangladeshi women.

Read about Sadia's thesis practice here