Living Continuity is a collective inquiry on the challenges and opportunities of working towards spatially just neighbourhoods. Session VI explores the importance of amplifying and enabling community voices. What are the challenges, incremental and transformative actions necessary to challenge current systems that exclude and marginalize the global majority? How can modes of research support modes of resistance? Maitha Alhammadi presents her semi-autoethnographic research on Al Rahba City in Abu Dhabi, reflecting on the evolution of the suburban city and the changing relationship women and girls have had to it.

Maitha Alhammadi is a recent Architecture graduate from the American University of Sharjah (AUS). She is currently working as a landscape designer on multiple infrastructural projects with Parsons in Abu Dhabi, the UAE. Driven by her keen interest in nature, art, sciences, and community wellbeing, she is working towards promoting wellness and more physical activity in the UAE. Besides advocating for community-based wellness centers within her community, her current research examines the landscapes's socio-ecological capacities and began whilst seeking knowledge towards revitalizing the cities of the UAE in her last semester at AUS.