Born and raised in Mumbai, India, Alifiyah completed her Bachelor’s in Architecture from Mumbai, followed by an Urban Fellowship in Bengaluru.

She moved to Canada in 2021 to pursue her Master’s in Architecture at the University of Waterloo, where her recent graduate thesis investigates repair as non-Western spatial tactics of agency, undertaken by inhabitants collectively within the low-income tenement housing of chawls in Mumbai.

Alifiyah has gained brief professional experience in residential, commercial, and institutional architectural projects, and has also undertaken some research-based roles.

Through research or practice, Alifiyah is passionate about exploring the interdisciplinary intersections of architecture, urbanism, power of community building, and questions of social and environmental justice.