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:
" Power framed as possibility opens up what happens when researchers share resources with participants. "
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
" This is not a mining operation; humans are not gemstones waiting to be extracted. "
The Politics of Radical Research: A Manifesto
March 27, 2023
