Sarah Abiya is a social practice artist, designer and researcher who asks:
In the midst of social, environmental, and institutional collapse, how might we design ways to expand our individual and collective imaginations toward better ways of being—and better ways of being together?
Sarah Abiya believes culture is fluid and powerful and designed. She leverages art and design to invite the public into a greater understanding of their agency to shape and change culture through designed participatory experiences.
Sarah designs workshops, installations, artifacts and performances which explore how we might live differently and better together. Her work provokes reflection, invites agency, and nurtures imagination. She weaves together ancient technologies: ritual, social psychology, physiology, and embodied listening with modern ones: design research methods, computer modeling and data visualization into experiences that spark curiosity, connection, awe and action.
Sarah studied Geography at Macalester College, Landscape Architecture at the Rhode Island School of Design, and Transdisciplinary Design at Parsons School of Design.
She is the founder of CoLabre Ritual Design Studio.