Gyorgyi Galik is a London-based xdesigner (experimental design) and researcher. Her practice focuses on voluntary social change, and more specifically on how we can transform socio-ecological systems and our collective relationship toward the environmental commons, to address and respond to contemporary social and environmental challenges. With PAN Studio and Tom Armitage, she was nominated in the digital category of the Design Museum’s Design of the Year 2014 award in London. She has worked frequently in collaboration and in cross-disciplinary teams in labs and design studios, including: Superflux (London), Baltan Laboratories (Eindhoven), Kin Design & Research (London), Sackler Centre, Victoria and Albert Museum (London), PAN Studio (London), Elmsly Arts Limited (London), Designswarm (London), Natalie Jeremijenko and the Environmental Health Clinic (New York), Hexagram-Concordia Research Lab (Montreal), CECI (Montreal), Szövetség’39 Association of Artists and Architects (Budapest), and Kitchen Budapest Art & Tech Lab (Budapest). Gyorgyi is a PhD candidate in innovation design engineering at the Royal College of Art, London. She is an associate lecturer in contexts in design and communication on the Graphic Communication Design Programme at Central Saint Martins College, University of the Arts, London. Gyorgyi graduated with a Master’s degree in design management from Budapest’s Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in June 2010. She earned in parallel an MA as a designer in visual communication arts, with a specialization in video art. Her interdisciplinary approach allowed her to study a variety of subjects: art history, dramaturgy, visual studies, art and technology, design, creative writing, media and communication theory, art analysis, environmental psychology, anthropology, human ecology, and design for social change, among others. She has participated in numerous conferences and workshops in Europe and North America.