Moderator: Iaroslav Volovod
Curator, Guggenheim Abu Dhabi

Speakers

• Zain Masud Landscape Designer Born in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Zain was raised in London. Zain trained in landscape design at the Inchbald School of Design, London. She holds a Masters in History of Art from the University of Oxford, and BA in History of Art from SOAS and UCL, London. She has lived and worked in Paris, Dubai, Moscow and New Delhi over a fifteen-year career in the art world, directing art fairs, advising cultural institutions and curating collections of contemporary art. She brings to her practice unique experience and knowledge, continuing to work at the intersection of culture and landscape, bridging disciplines and weaving their values into her gardens.
  
  Zain’s Meccan grandfather bred roses in Taif, and her Punjabi grandfather taught her that if she could appreciate nature’s intricacies she would always be happy. For Zain, working with nature to create gardens and landscapes is a form of ibadah.
• Lulu Almana
  Landscape Architect Lulu Almana is a Saudi landscape architect working at the intersection of ecology, community, and urban regeneration. With over twelve years of experience across London, Istanbul, and Abu Dhabi, her work spans scales—from strategic city plans to designing parks and public spaces. She is the founder and principal of Lulu Almana Studio, a landscape design practice focused on regenerative landscapes across the Gulf, and the co-founder of Maghras, a farm-based research and community space in Al Ahsa, founded with Sara Al Omran in 2024.
• Lara Zureikat Landscape Architect Lara Zureikat is one of the leading landscape architects in the Middle East and the associate director for the Center for the Study of the Built Environment (CSBE) in Amman. Lara’s work at focused on the design of native, water-conserving landscapes. She designed the first model water-conserving park for the Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts and led an extensive public program promoting the use of native and drought-tolerant flora in landscape design. Lara has also collaborated with local and international architecture firms on notable institutional and urban projects, such as Palestinian Museum in Bir Zeit, the Amman Master Plan, and the Destination Hotel in al-Ula, Saudi Arabia.
  
  Lara’s work is rooted in connection to place and in the integration of natural processes to create relevant and sustainable landscapes. Lara received the Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 2019 for her work on the Palestinian Museum. Her work has been published in Architectural Digest, Architectural Review, Hauser, and Wallpaper* Magazines.
  
  She holds a Master of Landscape Architecture (M.L.A.) from the University of California at Berkeley and a Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch.) from the University of Notre Dame.