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 participants are demanding that we see them as equals rather than vessels to extract knowledge from. "
Industry junctures: Paths forwards for UXR and the critical decisions that get us there [Advancing Research Community Workshop Series]
October 2, 2024
" Being anti-urgency and setting boundaries at work are acts of care that support wellbeing and collaboration. "
Cultivating Design Ecologies of Care, Community, and Collaboration
October 4, 2023
" We all have the capacity to cause harm, whether intentional or not, and thus responsibility for harm reduction. "
The Politics of Radical Research: A Manifesto
March 27, 2023
