Shamin Sharum is a Malaysian artist and designer whose work moves between architecture, contemporary art, and interdisciplinary design. A graduate of Universiti Teknologi MARA (Shah Alam, Malaysia) and the Royal Institute of British Architects RIBA Part 2 program at the University of Greenwich, he is also the co-founder of multidisciplinary studio No-To-Scale*, where he develops product design, curatorial projects, and public-facing creative initiatives. His practice explores how memory, space, and fragments of the built environment shape the social psyche of the city, particularly within contexts shaped by globalisation and rapid urban transformation.

During his two-month studio placement at Dom Art Projects in Al Quoz, Sharum will work on a new project titled "A Self-Portrait of Al Quoz." Within this body of work, Al Quoz becomes a site of observation: an industrial district where migrant workers negotiate labor, rest, and everyday routines in a constantly shifting landscape. The artist plans to conduct fieldwork across the district, collecting urban detritus and discarded materials to create a site bricolage — assemblages that trace informal systems of order, congregation, and care that operate beyond formal planning. The studio will serve as a space for documenting, testing, and transforming these fragments into sculptural studies that respond to the neighbourhood’s vernacular rhythms.

Ultimately, "A Self-Portrait of Al Quoz" aims to surface the quiet narratives embedded in the UAE’s evolving urban fabric, offering a nuanced view of how environments shape daily habits, forms of adaptation, and belonging.