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Györgyi Gálik

Dark Matter Labs

Co-Founder, Governing Together and Co-Lead, City Transitions Mission

Györgyi is a Berlin-based designer and environmental advocate. She is the Co-Founder of Governing Together and the City Transitions Co-Lead at Dark Matter Labs. Previously, she worked as the Head of Strategic Partnerships at the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose and as a Lead Advisor and the Head of Social Innovation at Design Council. She also completed a PhD in Innovation Design Engineering at the School of Design, Royal College of Art in London, focusing on design and climate change. With a background in social design, behavioural science and environmental health, she has nineteen years of experience designing and delivering experimental research, innovation and technology design projects across the corporate, governmental and non-governmental sectors. She has designed, led and managed a wide variety of programmes across the globe, working with organisations ranging from small startups and individual communities to large corporations and local and national governments.

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Do Not Trust the Process: Critical Conditions and Relational Capacities in an Era of Uncertainty and Volatility

Györgyi Gálik
Györgyi Gálik Co-Founder, Governing Together and Co-Lead, City Transitions Mission at Dark Matter Labs

This talk explores why our current paradigms and the underlying logics of dominant worldviews cannot cope with the compounding crises of our time – nor can the rigid, linear processes that keep failing us in moments of uncertainty and volatility. It looks at how we, as design professionals, and our teams and organisations, can move beyond these old logics by cultivating relational capacities and fostering critical conditions, building the collective intelligence, resilience, and adaptability needed to navigate complexity.

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