Saniya Jafri

https://www.saniyajafri.com/
Germany (residence), Pakistan (citizenship) °1990
research interests: interaction design, food studies, food design, colonialism, memory practice, archive as creative practice, practice-based research
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UX Design Researcher
with a knack for Interaction Design & Storytelling

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  • ideally, the biryani that brings us all together (2025) author(s): Saniya Jafri published in: VIS - Nordic Journal for Artistic Research
    This Exposition is a brief ironic comment on the ongoing degradation, commodification, and colonisation of food and its many dimensions — recipes, ingredients, context — and a reflection on the territorial definitions that shape identity, in this case of South Asians and the Global South, once bound together as a people and still united in the brieftopian world of the Author’s Greatest Biryani: an amalgamative dish of political and cultural reproductions, drenched in time, where old and new contest identity. Through a conversational, autoethnographic lens, the exposition blends historical, colonial, and territorial reflections, using Biryani as both departure point and metaphor for shared identity and dislocation. Visual collages — archival, familial, and sourced — act as probes connecting memory, culture, and belonging. Ultimately, the work offers the Author’s Greatest Biryani as a living document of generational knowledge and a utopian gesture, inviting both insiders and outsiders to gather around a dish transcending borders and time.
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