Sahibzada Mayed
Trauma-Informed Researcher, Abolitionist, Pause & Effect
Mayed is a design researcher and creative strategist. They bring a critically-informed approach to community-centered design that seeks to advance culturally thriving, regenerative, and sustainably empowering outcomes. Inside and out, Mayed is an abolitionist at heart. She seeks to articulate the ways in which carceral logics and discourses are reproduced in our lives, and dreams of the ways in which we can liberate ourselves and reclaim the freedom to define our own realities. Mayed's work embodies the radical critique needed to disrupt oppressive systems and the speculative dreaming that is necessary to imagine new worlds.
Rosenverse talks by Sahibzada:
" If people are complaining about the present, it’s very difficult to imagine a future without addressing current challenges. "
Industry junctures: Paths forwards for UXR and the critical decisions that get us there [Advancing Research Community Workshop Series]
October 2, 2024
" Decentralization of power is really important because power impacts how we practice care and collaborate. "
Cultivating Design Ecologies of Care, Community, and Collaboration
October 4, 2023
" Does communal proximity guarantee the right to engage in research? This is a complicated question without easy answers. "
The Politics of Radical Research: A Manifesto
March 27, 2023
