Researcher
About
Abira Hussein (PhD Student, UCL) curator of digital and virtual reality exhibitions of Somali cultural artifacts and images from before the Somali civil war. She is an Independent Researcher and Curator specialising in Somali heritage, digital archives, Open Culture and GLAM. In recent years she has worked with the Barbican, Magnum Photos, British Museum, The National Archives, and other organisations, to deliver a number of projects and workshops engaging with the Somali Community, and research the heritage sector. In 2017 she created the VR experience ‘Coming Home’ – in partnership with the British Museum and funded by Brighton Digital Festival and shown at Sussex Humanities Lab. In 2018 she developed in partnership with Mnemoscene the NOMAD project, a Mixed Reality experience that explored the creative use of immersive mixed reality and web-based technology to contextualise archival Somali objects with the people and traditions to which they belong.