Zoha Masood is a preservationist in the making, an anthropology enthusiast, artist and a graduate student in Historic Preservation at Pratt Institute. Originally from Karachi, Pakistan, her work explores the intersections of material culture, memory, and heritage, with particular attention to how objects and stories embody displacement, belonging, and layered histories. Grounded in archiving, oral histories, and postcolonial studies, she approaches preservation as a practice that extends beyond monuments and museums to include the everyday and the intimate. She is interested in how bias and privilege shape dominant historical narratives and in finding ways to bridge these silences through material traces and community knowledge. Drawing from anthropology, she understands objects as vessels of memory, carrying significance that shifts across time, geography, and generations. Her practice seeks to expand preservation frameworks to highlight overlooked cultural histories and to challenge conventional ideas of what is considered worthy of safeguarding. She envisions preservation as a dynamic field that not only protects but also listens, cares, reimagines and emphasizes that cultural heritage is not static, but living and constantly shaped by migration, survival, and the everyday practices of communities.
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