How to Make Friends w/ Soofiya

Friendship is community. Community is friendship. This isn’t just something that happens—it’s something we make and build. But in a world where friendship has been reduced to likes, follows, and matches, how do we rethink and redesign the act of making friends and building communities in a way that truly works for us?

In this interactive session, designer and zine maker, Soofiya will guide us through friendship as a design problem. Together, we’ll map out our connections, reflect on how we form and sustain friendships, and sketch new ways of approaching friendship and in turn community, beyond the limits of social media algorithms and dating apps.

Through diagrams and discussion, this salon will offer space to reimagine friendship as something we can actively shape rather than passively receive. Expect a playful and thoughtful evening of drawing, sharing, and thinking differently about the ways we connect.

Come ready to make, map, and maybe even meet a new friend or two!

About Soofiya

Soofiya's design practice centres around illustration, visual identity and book design, with most clients tending to be in the arts, cultural and activist sector. Soofiya's art practice and writings aim to articulate a commentary on gender, race, politics and bodies through a DIY and therapeutically informed approach.

Soofiya has worked as a lecturer in design and arts at Universities and HE institutions nationally and internationally in the UK and Xiamen, China. Soofiya is an associate lecturer at UAL on their MA Internet Equalities as well as lecturing at the University of Brighton.

Session details

Session Lead: Soofiya

In Person: Southern Belle, 3, Waterloo Street, Hove

The venue is not wheelchair accessible

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Meeting ID: 859 9442 9347

Passcode: 228281

Time: 6:30 pm Doors. Start 7:00 pm-9:30 pm.

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