Mahsa Foroughi

Mahsa Foroughi is a published poet, filmmaker, critic and architect. She was awarded her PhD for interdisciplinary research on architecture, film and philosophy that questioned the status quo of humans’ perception. As an academic, she has been teaching architecture history and theory at UNSW since 2018 and has worked as Academic Course Coordinator at NIDA since 2017. Mahsa is one of the authors of The Theatre Times, a non-partisan, global theatre portal. Mahsa has recently been offered an artist residency in Berlin to develop and produce her docudrama A Poetic Suicide. She has also finished her first non-fiction book, Haptic Visuality in Arts. She previously worked as a literary curator’s assistant with the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), National Art School (NAS) and Carriageworks.