Lama Hasan 

Lama Hasan is a Palestinian landscape architect, researcher, and writer working across Mediterranean and diasporic contexts. Her work explores land, migration, and belonging through place-based research, storytelling, teaching, and collaborative practice.

Through interdisciplinary design and research, she collaborates with artisans, designers, researchers, and communities around questions of agricultural heritage, ancestral knowledge, and cultural resilience. Her projects span spatial research, writing, pedagogy, and experimental formats, with a particular interest in how landscapes hold memory, loss, and continuity.

Born to a family with deep agricultural roots in Battir, a terraced village in Palestine recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Lama’s relationship to land is shaped by farming lineages and practices of collective stewardship passed down over generations. Raised between Saudi Arabia and the United States, she studied public and urban affairs before training in landscape architecture, grounding her work in land governance, ancient infrastructures, and spatial justice.

She has worked on cultural and ecological projects at firms including AECOM and GGN, and currently teaches interdisciplinary studios in landscape architecture and architecture in New York. Alongside teaching, she works on wildlife crossings as an Associate at Rock Design Associates and maintains a research-based practice developed through residencies across Palestine, Spain, Turkey, and the broader Mediterranean.

 

Baladi 

An Arabic term meaning “local” or “native,” often used to describe village-based food, practices, and ways of life. For many refugees and migrants, it evokes nostalgia and longing for land-based traditions, as well as the grief of disconnection. In diasporic contexts, this loss often transforms into living memory through food, craft, land rituals, music, and community practices.

 

Baladi Creative 

Baladi Creative is the platform through which Lama develops her creative research. It brings together land, memory, and cross-cultural collaboration to explore home as a lived, evolving condition rather than a fixed place.

 

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