Reema Abu Hassan

Reema Abu Hassan is an architect and ceramic designer based in Doha, where she is founding director of Clay Encounters, a ceramics design studio and curated design shop in the Qanat Quartier of The Pearl, built around reintroducing a traditional craft through design and drawing a diversity of people into making.

She graduated cum laude in architecture from the American University of Sharjah in 2016 and completed an MFA in design studies at Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar in 2020, after working at OMA in Dubai and OMA/AMO in Rotterdam; she teaches in the interior design department at VCUarts Qatar. Clay Encounters runs classes, workshops and exhibitions with cultural institutions, and its research combines digital fabrication with slip casting, with products retailed at the National Museum of Qatar.