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:
" Research doesn’t start and end with the researcher; it’s about continual learning and supporting communities to keep learning. "
Industry junctures: Paths forwards for UXR and the critical decisions that get us there [Advancing Research Community Workshop Series]
October 2, 2024
" Care can go in multiple pathways; it’s not always one-way. There’s multiplicity and duality in how care is practiced. "
Cultivating Design Ecologies of Care, Community, and Collaboration
October 4, 2023
" We must distinguish between right and entitlement when engaging in research and acknowledge the responsibility that accompanies privilege. "
The Politics of Radical Research: A Manifesto
March 27, 2023
