Yara Sharif is Senior Lecturer at the University of Westminster and co-founder of the Palestine Regeneration Team (PART), a design-led collective grappling with reconstruction, self-build, and spatial justice in Middle Eastern contexts. Her doctoral research (Architecture of Resistance) won the RIBA President’s Award for Research (2013), and she has led award-winning collaborations with Riwaq and NG Architects on Beit Iksa Eco Kitchen and Birzeit regeneration projects. In November 2023, she co-founded Architects for Gaza with Nasser Golzari, mobilizing global design practitioners to partner with displaced communities, reimagining home, memory and collective futures in Gaza through speculative and live-built environments.