Rohma Moid Khan

Rohma Moid Khan

Rohma Moid Khan is a multi-disciplinary artist, educator, and researcher based in Lahore, Pakistan. She is an Associate Professor and Programme Head of the Interdisciplinary Expanded Design and Art (IEDA) programme at Beaconhouse National University, where she leads the development of transdisciplinary curricula and experimental pedagogical practices. She served as the Founding Director of Programmes for the UNESCO Chair on Inclusion through Art at BNU, where she led the development of its academic framework, research initiatives, and international collaborations advancing inclusive cultural practice.

Rohma is the Founding Editorial Director of IEDAs: Journal for Transdisciplinary Practices in Art and Design and Director of NothingFest, a cross-disciplinary platform bringing together practitioners across art, science, and social inquiry. She is also a collaborator and co-founder of Provocations (@Fashioning_a_dialogue), fostering exchange between academicians, researchers, and practitioners to explore, synchronize, and expand ideas, thoughts, and practices in art, design, and related disciplines.

Her work has been presented internationally at Memphis College of Art and Design, Kunsthalle Wien, University of Wisconsin–Madison, the United Nations Rotunda in Vienna, the National Library of Foreign Literature in Budapest, the Textile Society of America’s 17th Biennial Symposium, and The Reach Gallery, Vancouver.

11:00 am - 9:00 pm
Upper Garden

Romantic Provocations

Interactive

Romantic Provocations is a roaming, shape-shifting exhibition that blurs the borders between art, science, politics, and public imagination. Part laboratory, part collective pause, it invites visitors into a living system where romance becomes method and friction becomes fuel. Across eight provocations, from algorithmic desire to intimacy by design, artists, scientists, and designers unsettle familiar narratives and open new ones. Multiple storylines unfold at once. Conversations remain porous. Ideas migrate across cities and disciplines, gathering new meaning as they travel and it all begins at WOW in Karachi. Visitors don’t simply observe; they participate in a slow, evolving negotiation of belief, desire, care, and disobedience. The result is a living archive of contradictions, gestures, and connections: a collective attempt to build worlds where love is disruptive, ambiguity is defended, and complexity is a shared inheritance

11:00 am - 9:00 pm
Upper Garden

Romantic Provocations

Interactive

Romantic Provocations is a roaming, shape-shifting exhibition that blurs the borders between art, science, politics, and public imagination. Part laboratory, part collective pause, it invites visitors into a living system where romance becomes method and friction becomes fuel. Across eight provocations, from algorithmic desire to intimacy by design, artists, scientists, and designers unsettle familiar narratives and open new ones. Multiple storylines unfold at once. Conversations remain porous. Ideas migrate across cities and disciplines, gathering new meaning as they travel and it all begins at WOW in Karachi. Visitors don’t simply observe; they participate in a slow, evolving negotiation of belief, desire, care, and disobedience. The result is a living archive of contradictions, gestures, and connections: a collective attempt to build worlds where love is disruptive, ambiguity is defended, and complexity is a shared inheritance