Yara Feghali

Yara Feghali, an Onassis Onx Member, is a French Lebanese architectural designer working at the intersection of architecture pedagogy, transmedia, and immersive technologies. She is a Design Faculty at UCLA AUD, and the creative director of Folly Feast Lab co-founded with Viviane El Kmati based in Los Angeles, California. While at MIT, she will be designing a puzzle game with thematics based on immigration and queer culture and informed by Lebanese folklore and Arabic precedents of housing, marketplaces, communal living, and harbor design from the Phoenician era.