British Sudanese Digital Artist and Architect, Rayan Elnayal shares how she uses the skills she obtained as an architecture student to visualise fictional spaces inspired by her diasporic background & ethnocentric ideas.

She will explore the artistic journey and conceptualisation of her latest project, A Magic Realist Afrabia, as well as discuss relevant themes in her work including: Magic realism, Afrofuturism, the portrayal of western media narratives, identity & ethnic hybridism.

Explore the intersection of architecture and digital art, and learn how digital visualisation & drawing can aid in the production of ethnocentric futurisms in the Middle East & North Africa (MENA) region.