Fatemeh Nejati (Afra) is an Iranian architect, product designer and coach based in Tehran. She is a double master’s graduate of Architecture from SRBIAU (Iran) and also in Advanced Ecological Buildings & Bio-cities from IAAC (Spain). Also she is a practitioner at Engenesis platform as a coach ( life and business).

She founded Ev ceramic-lab in Tehran in 2020 after coming back from Spain. Her first project_ MUQARNAS PROJECT_  was successful in Iran and Spain. The products of this project travelled to Sweden, Austria, Italy, Greece, Mexico, India, China, The Us, Puerto-Rico, England, France, Germany, and Ethiopia. It was shown in a solo exhibition in Barcelona, also in Milan Design Week 2024.

She established her company_ EV YAAR S.L. _ in Spain in Jan 2024, hoping to expand her activities there. But it was a life changing decision to come back to Iran and stay with her family and people, to cross the crisis of war these days.

At ev Ceramic-Lab, we strive to integrate ceramic science, digital design, and the principles of sustainability to create products which fit today's needs. Our human-centered design approach for designing and manufacturing, encourages us to think about human, environmental and economic demands simultaneously. One of our main missions is to research and design ceramic envelopes which are responsive to environmental, climatic, economic and aesthetic needs that can be applied to building facades. We are inspired by Iranian architecture’s complex geometries in parametric design of our products.