SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE | CIVIC ADVOCACY | THOUGHT LEADERSHIP
The Caring Urbanist is an independent social infrastructure and civic care practice.
Through collaborative work, civic storytelling, research, and strategic advisory, the platform explores how care shapes the cities we live in — and how cities, in turn, shape our ability to care for one another. The platform focuses in particular on how the city responds when dependency becomes most visible — the beginnings and endings of life, and the ruptures, like migration and displacement, that force people to begin again.
Location: International Year: 2026

ART IN PUBLIC SPACE
Role: Art Advisory and Conceptual Delivery
Description: Public Art installation for Jamii, Toronto. Funded by the City of Toronto’s Main Street Innovation Fund and the Government of Canada’s Healthy Communities Initiative.
Location: David Crombie Park Year: 2024

PERFORMANCE IN PUBLIC SPACE
Role: Creative Consultancy & Concept Research & Strategy
Description: Mudlark was a creative consultancy for Jamii, Toronto. It was an outdoor Shadow Puppet theatre performance depicting the historical evolution of The Esplanade neighborhood through the eyes of a young Mudlark girl.
Location: The Esplanade & Berkeley St. Toronto. Year: 2023

CIVIC ADVOCACY
Role: Project conception, management, oversight, partnerships and media
Description: In partnership with the United Nations and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sarah (as Urban Innovation Pvt. Ltd.) led an officially sponsored, high-profile public space advocacy campaign focused on the reclamation of public spaces and active mobility.
Location: Islamabad Year: 2021

ART IN PUBLIC SPACE
Role: Contributing Artist
Description: Creative Contribution and Participant in multi-artist outdoor exhibit highlighting the role of memory in creating place. Supported by the Metcalf Foundation. Location: 264 The Esplanade. Year: 2024

PARTICIPATORY COMMUNITY ART
Role: Concept & Delivery
Description: Project coordination and conceptual support for Jamii, Toronto. The Little Esplanade is a community-driven miniature modeling project designed to strengthen social bonds and relationships with the built environment. Location: 264 The Esplanade Year: 2024

CIVIC ADVOCACY AND COMMUNITY MOBILIZATION
Role: Lead Convenor
Description: A crisis response advocacy project bringing together Architects, Engineers, Urban Planners and the Aid sector to address the devastation of the 2010 Floods across Punjab, Pakistan. Location: Lahore, Pakistan Year: 2010/2011

CIVIC DIALOGUE
Role: Project Management & Coordination
Commissioned by the Urban Unit, Government of Punjab, the City Dialogue series was organised to create civic dialogue on pressing urban issues. Speakers included prominent scholars, local politicians and activists. Location: Quaid-e-Azam Library, Lahore, Pakistan. Year: 2018

ART IN PUBLIC SPACE
Role: Project Coordination and Delivery
Description: Paivasta was/is a socially engaged public art project by artists Matt Kushan and Unum Babar and Glasgow-based creative studio Pidgin Perfect .he project was curated and commissioned by Lahore Biennale Foundation (LBF) and British Council Pakistan with generous support from Parks & Horticulture Authority (PHA) Lahore. Location: Lawrence Gardens, Lahore. Year: 2016

CULTURAL PLANNING & EVENT ACTIVATION
Role: Advisory & Programme Development
Programme Direction and consultancy for inaugural Lahore Music Meet. A first of its kind music festival bringing together musical talent from the grassroots across Pakistan. Location: Lahore, Pakistan Year: 2015

URBAN REVITALIZATION
Role: Project Lead
Proposal developed for Lahore Development Authority
2020

CULTURAL PLANNING & EVENT SUPPORT
Role: Event-wide logistics, volunteer training and VIP personnel management
Description: The Lahore Literary Festival is the premier free-to-the-public cultural event in Lahore.LLF explores the dialogue and interface between literature and the arts that shape our cultural, social, economic, and political frameworks.
Year: 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019