About — Nada Alshammari

Nada Alshammari, Director

Interdisciplinary Communication & Applied Education Consultant

We teach, share, publicize, exhibit, document, design, make, create links, and share ideas — at the point where science, art, and education overlap.

MAPP was founded in 2011 as a social enterprise to drive innovation at the intersection of arts and sciences. For over 20 years we've led interdisciplinary projects that support youth education, gender empowerment, and science communication. Our work continues to open new paths for civic engagement and innovation. We invite you to connect and help shape a culture that inspires future generations.

Under the MAPP umbrella, we contribute to youth education and development through creative place-making and project-based engagement. Our projects are collaborations with media artists, teachers, technologists, engineers, and scientists — always not-for-profit, always reflecting relevance, inclusion, creativity, quality, leadership, collaboration, and sustainability.

Curriculum Design Science Communication Space Education Creative Non-Fiction Media Arts Youth Development

What Guides The Work

Seven values, one practice.

Relevance

Work that answers a real question, for a real community.

Inclusion

Doors open to every background, discipline, and starting point.

Creativity

Art as a serious method of inquiry, not decoration.

Quality

Rigor in the science, craft in the storytelling.

Leadership

Building people who can carry ideas further than any one of us alone.

Collaboration

Scientists, artists, technologists, and educators — same table.

Sustainability

Projects designed to outlast a single grant cycle or season.

Along The Way

Two decades of relationships that shaped this practice.

Nada AlShammari with Mariam AbdulMalik — the first Kuwaiti female teacher

Nada AlShammari with Lulwa AlQatami — while filming the documentary series "Trailblazing Women in the History of Kuwait"

Nada AlShammari with Noam Chomsky

Reach

Two decades, moving between disciplines.

MAPP's projects and the students we mentor have found their way onto some notable stages — proof that creative, interdisciplinary education travels.

Nada AlShammari with leading Arab women awarded Arab Woman of the Year for Innovation, 2023

2011 →

MAPP Founded

Launched as a not-for-profit social enterprise driving innovation at the intersection of arts and sciences.

Ongoing

Global Missions

MAP² Explorers has run STEAM and space-focused youth expeditions across countries including Bulgaria, China, Finland, France, Indonesia, Japan, Kuwait, New Zealand, Norway, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and the USA.

By Invitation

International Platforms

Students we mentor have presented work at the International SpaceOps Conference, the UN Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) HQ, and the Deep Space Exploration Lab in China.

Network

A Wide Collaborative Bench

Partners and collaborators span cultural institutions, government science bodies, media companies, and long-time partners — see the full list on the Partners page.

Recognition