Elham Puriya Mehr is an independent curator and lecturer based in Vancouver on the unceded territories of the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. She received her BA and MA from Tehran University of Art, her PhD in Art Research from Alzahra University, and was a postdoctoral researcher in Advanced Practice at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her research focuses on learning in social spaces that generate new vocabularies, practices and knowledge. She has worked internationally as an educator, curator and writer for the past seventeen years and has presented at conferences, symposia and talks in international contexts. She is co-founder of Empty Space Studio, a non-profit nomadic platform based in Tehran and Vancouver.