Résumé
Designer and educator building practical ways to help people understand themselves and navigate life. My work connects learning experiences, digital tools, visual storytelling, and community leadership.
Lahore, Pakistan · aqibmanzoormir@gmail.com · Instagram · LinkedIn
Experience
Jun 2026 – now
Founder & Curriculum Developer
The Game
- A life-education program for young people: fact-based content now, in-person cohorts next.
- A meta-analysis of life, read through the literal text of the Quran.
- 30 pieces published, reaching more than 400,000 people in the first four months.
Sep 2025 – now
Founder & Product Designer
PlayLight, the first tool of The Game
- The first tool of The Game.
- It maps a life across personality, life pillars, goals and challenges.
- 56 people are using it before launch.
Feb 2024 – Jun 2025
Co-Founder
Saraye
- Co-founded, designed, built and ran it.
- It grew to 12 staff and more than 500 visitors a week, with music nights and photography classes.
- It is now leased out as a running business.
Jul – Oct 2023
Co-Founder & Organiser
Muzaffarabad Premier League
- Founded and organised a football league in my hometown.
- 8 teams and around 200 players.
- Broadcast live, with around 100,000 views.
May 2022 – Jun 2023
Co-Founder & Head of Development
ARDIUM
- Co-founded a property development venture to put architectural training to work in real estate.
- Led development and produced its first project proposal.
Jun 2019 – May 2022
Founder & Creative Director, now Board Member
VISIONS
- Started as a self-taught freelance designer, video editor and animator in my third year of architecture school.
- Grew it into an agency with 8 core staff and more than 600 client projects.
- Handed operations to a managing partner in August 2021, and still sit on the board.
Mar 2017 – Nov 2019
Actor & Director
Neo-Transitional Mime, NCA's theatre society
- Acted in and directed mime productions.
- Played Macduff in Macbeth.
- Took the society outside college, where it won awards.
Education
Dec 2016 – Feb 2022
Bachelor of Architecture
National College of Arts, Lahore
- Bachelor of Architecture, CGPA 3.3 out of 4.0.
- Thesis, A New Beginning: sustainable, low-cost, earthquake-resistant housing for endangered communities.
- Class representative.
Sport
until Jun 2016
Represented Kashmir
All-Pakistan Under-14 and Under-17 tournaments
- Represented Kashmir at the All-Pakistan Under-14 and Under-17 tournaments.
Other notable experiences
Community mural, Muzaffarabad
Led
- The city's first independent mural, made with local residents.
Kashmir Creatives Collective
Helped build
- A platform for independent creatives humanizing Kashmir through its art and culture.
Dedh Eent (1.5 Brick)
Directed
- A public performance on unity: separate problems find solutions when people join their energies.
Street waste disposal
Initiated
- Brought one member from every household on my street together to design a proper waste-disposal system.
NCA class representative
Served
- Represented my class, including a seven-day trip across northern Pakistan.
Interests
Perennial philosophy, life, geopolitics, cultures, design, technology, community.