Ala Roushan is a Persian–Canadian artist and curator whose practice explores artificial environments at the intersection of art, architecture, and technology. She is a tenured research professor at OCAD University. She recently produced BREATHLESS at The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto – a multifaceted project comprising an experimental pavilion, group exhibition, publication, and performances that examine the paradoxes of air and breathing. Her writing has appeared in Afterall Journal, Artforum, Gropius Bau Journal, among others. Her current body of work, Solar Exchange, speculates on the prehistory of geoengineering – presented as a film currently on view at the University of Toronto Architecture Gallery, and previously as a lecture-performance at the Hamburg Planetarium in collaboration with Deichtorhallen. Roushan lives and works in Toronto.