Ayah Bdeir
- Fellow
- Middle East Research Group
- http://www.ayahbdeir.com
Ayah, who will work in Eyebeam's R&D OpenLab, is an engineer, designer and activist. With an upbringing in Lebanon, Canada and the United States, Ayah's work looks at the role technology plays in cross cultural communication. In her work, Ayah attempts to create technologies to promote human rights and redress power discrepancies between citizens and authority structures. Among her work is Arabiia, a convertible, motorized outfit that makes a caricature of two stereotypical representations typically attributed to arab women; and <random> search, a subtle, reactive undergarment that records, shares and analyses the experience of invasive airport searches. She recently earned her master's degree from the MIT Media Lab as part of the Computing Culture Group, which creates unique technologies for cultural, political and media applications.
