Neda Moridpour (she/they) is a Kurdish-Iranian cultural futurist, artist, and organizer whose research examines cycles of violence that lead to displacement, discrimination, and systemic inequities. Through socially engaged art and community-based participatory research, they create collaborative spaces grounded in mutual care, community building, and the visualization of future world-building.
Moridpour is a Professor of the Practice at the SMFA and Tisch College at Tufts University and a Co-Creation Studio Fellow at the MIT Open Documentary Lab. They have co-founded three artist-activist collectives: LOUDER THAN WORDS, recipient of the Women’s Caucus for Art International Honor Roll Award; [P]Art Collective, whose animation LA DOLCE VITA was featured at international film festivals; and the Hamdel Futurist Collaborative, recipient of the MacDowell Fellowship. Their recent honors include the BCA Studio Residency, Boston’s Un-monument Award, the Mass Cultural Council Grant, the Tisch College Community Research Center grant, the MacJannet Artist Residency, and the MUSE Award from Tufts’ Office of the Vice Provost for Research.
Learn more about their research here: Embodied Creative Disobedience: archiving Global Strategies of Speculative Resistance