Sa’ada is a design and art practice founded by Sarah Saad.

Sa’ada as a Design Practice

Sa’ada is a multi-disciplinary design practice focused on creating physical spaces and media for communities. The practice ranges from community engagement, urban design, exhibition design and architecture.

Our core value is creating with communities, not just for them. Collective art creation is a form of resistance, allowing communities to advocate for themselves. The practice strikes a balance between process and product — transforming the making itself into a form of civic action.

Sa’ada as an Artistic Practice

Sa’ada is a multi-medium artistic practice rooted in visual experimentation especially with and within marginalized communities. The art practice ranges from printmaking, bookmaking, illustration, and digital drawings.

Check out our zines titled “When I Digress...” Parts 1 and 2, and “Hassan Fathy: An Anti-Modernist Egyptian Architect”.

Fellowships

Center of Urban Pedagogy, Making Policy Public

Van Alen X NYC SBS District Design Fellowship

About Sarah Saad

Sarah Saad is the founder of Sa'ada, a design and art practice. She served as the Staff Designer at NYC Planning in the Community Planning and Civic Engagement division, where she focused on creating visual assets to facilitate collaboration and communication between NYC Planning and the communities it serves.

Before joining NYC Planning, she worked at Pure+Applied and Storefront for Art and Architecture, gaining experience in exhibition and graphic design. She self-published a few zines titled “When I Digress...” Parts 1 and 2, and “Hassan Fathy: An Anti-Modernist Egyptian Architect”.

She is a graduate of the Cooper Union, where she studied architecture, and is based in Queens, New York.

Works

Exhibitions

Cross Bronx Living Legend, Bronx River Arts Center (2025)

Under My Feet, Illana Harris, Storefront for Art and Architecture (2023)
Direct Action, Francisca Benetiz, Storefront for Art and Architecture (2023)
Visitors Center Bayard Cutting Arboretum (2024)
Awe of the Arctic, NYPL (2023)

Publications

Kozarch, Un-Built Imaginary: New Masqat (2023)
When I Digress... “Welcome to the Masqat” (2023)
When I Digress... “An Architecture of the Margins” (2023)
Hassan Fathy, An Anti-Egyptian Modernist Architect

Guest Critic

Cooper Union Architectural Thesis Mid-Review 2024
Columbia GSAPP Fugitive Mobilities Mid-Review 2023

Contact Us: info@sa-ada.com