Nimrah Syed
Visiting Assistant Professor of Interactive Media
Affiliation: Visiting
Education: BDes PIFD; MDes OCAD University
Research Areas: Alternative futures, discursive and speculative design, design research, collective imagination, participatory and co-creation
Nimrah Syed is a foresight strategist and design researcher with a focus in futures practice. Her work aims to encourage imagination and develop capacity for alternative futures and long-term thinking at the intersection of speculative design and future studies.
Prior to joining NYU in Abu Dhabi, Syed split her time working as a strategy and research consultant and maintaining academic affiliations with institutions including Toronto Metropolitan University, OCAD University, and George Brown College in Toronto. She has also been a Research Resident Fellow at NYU Shanghai.