Kseniia Obukhova is an interdisciplinary researcher and practitioner working on the intersection of participatory design and public administration. She has a BA in Communication Design from Politecnico di Milano and a MA in Eco-Social Design from the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano. She has worked as Creative Project Manager for Graphic Days, an independent festival on visual design in Torino. She is currently a PhD candidate at UHasselt (Belgium) researching new approaches to collaborative governance that are grounded in critical design studies and environmental humanities.