Louisa Aarrass is an English-Morrocan artist and researcher based in Morocco who is currently working for GDF as the Outreach and Programme Curator. In this role, Louisa curates public programming and visual outputs to expand and diversify the dissemination of GDF’s work. Using participatory research and photo-based work, she is interested in exploring the complexities of food systems by looking at plants and food, as substance as well as medium of communication, in their political and sociocultural roles. 

Her academic background in agroecology and plant science furthered her interest in productive landscapes and the way people interact with them, taking shape through research on these topics from both ecological and sociocultural approaches. Beyond research her work centers on the ecologies and relationships within food systems, landscapes and culture through workshops and artistic interventions. 

She has practiced community building centered on the aforementioned themes in the Marrakech region through longterm involvement in cultural spaces in the city, including the Dar Bellarj Foundation and QANAT initiated by LE 18, Marrakech. QANAT is a collaborative platform that explores the politics and poetics of water to reflect and act (up)on the multiple contextual understandings and forms of (re)production of the commons in Morocco and beyond.