Alaa is a London-based visual artist, designer and creative facilitator. Whilst maintaining her own creative practice through editorial work and exhibitions, she has also worked with various creative and educational organisations as a facilitator delivering creative workshops with children and adults. Throughout her various roles her work always seeks to emphasise the value of using creativity as a pedagogical process to address and explore larger issues such as identity, faith and race.

In response to the Museum of the Home’s Stay at Home Collection, the artist is envisioning to create an ‘abstract sitting room’ where visitors can sit reflect, read and interact with visual and audio pieces reflecting on people’s experiences of the lockdown and how we can re-imagine what ‘home’ can mean to us in the future.