Mayar El Bakry (1994) is a Swiss Egyptian designer and researcher. She holds a BA of Arts in Visual Communication from the Academy of Art and Design Basel.
Working in the peripheries of design, she merges diverse practices in her work. Currently, she’s focusing on food and cooking as a means to create spaces of discourses, exchange and dialogue in, between and outside of (design) academia. Within her research, she emphasises cross-cultural exchange, societal relevance and collaboration. Her approaches are deeply rooted in decolonial studies and practices. Next to her research, she coordinates the Swiss Design Network and co-heads “Educating Otherwise” a continued education programme at the FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Basel focusing on intersectional feminist pedagogies within design.